Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro
22 Special Coffee is a café and coffee roaster in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, centred on its own coffee and roasting operation.
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Tea & Coffee of Brazil
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Traditional pastries accompany coffee at Confeitaria Colombo – Forte de Copacabana, the Café do Forte outpost inside Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana fort. São Paulo's Coffee Lab tests different roast profiles for individual coffee micro-lots on a small-batch Diedrich roaster. Isabela Raposeiras founded the coffee house after winning Brazil's national barista championship in 2002, developing its roasting programme. In Paraíso, Mori Chazeria offers matcha ceremonies and Japanese breakfast tastings through a tea sommelier trained on a Japanese farm.
Visit official site ↗Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro
Assimply Studio designs furniture and decorative objects from industrial waste, including dining, coffee and side tables, benches, chairs, sideboards and mirrors, under collections such as BRUT, NU, MONOMORFO and TERRA VERMELHA. It is located at Rua Leôncio de Albuquerque 33 in Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro.
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Visit official site ↗Confeitaria Colombo – Forte de Copacabana
Heritage HouseCopacabana (Forte de Copacabana, Posto 6)
Founded by Manoel Lebrão in 1894 and recognized as cultural and artistic heritage of Rio de Janeiro, Confeitaria Colombo runs a Copacabana outpost, Café do Forte, inside the historic fort. It serves the house's traditional pastries and sweets alongside a weekday lunch buffet.
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This branch of Rio's celebrated Confeitaria Colombo occupies the grounds of the Forte de Copacabana, a fort still run by the Brazilian Army, where it opened on 27 November 2003 originally as a support concession for the fort's own museum. The Colombo name goes back further: the original house was founded in 1894 by Portuguese immigrants Joaquim Borges de Medeiros and Manoel José Lebrão in Rio's Centro district, and a 1913 renovation gave it the belle-époque décor — crystal chandeliers, jointed columns, cane-seat chairs — that both the Centro flagship and its offshoots still trade on. The Forte outpost built its own reputation gradually on the strength of that history and an unmatched setting: tables set against the low wall (mureta) overlooking Copacabana beach are the most sought-after in the house, with a climate-controlled indoor room as the fallback on hot or rainy days. Best known for its breakfast service, the café also runs a proper lunch menu — the octopus dish Polvo Del Mare is a particular draw — plus starters and drinks aimed at people staying through sunset for the view. It keeps the Colombo house's cakes, savoury pastries and coffee on the same recipes as the Centro tearoom, just with a fort and a beach in place of the belle-époque salon.
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Curto Café operates a specialty-coffee café and online shop in central Rio de Janeiro. Its current range includes Arabica coffees, house blends and microlots, while the café occupies the ground floor of the Cândido Mendes building at Rua da Assembleia 10.
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Visit official site ↗São Paulo / Brazil
Caio Barbosa and João Campos met in college, but it was Campos's two years living in China, 2009 to 2010, that set the direction: he came home immersed in Chinese tea culture, and the two founded Chá Yê together, opening their first tea house in 2015 on Rua Fradique Coutinho in São Paulo's Pinheiros neighborhood.
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Caio Barbosa and João Campos met in college, but it was Campos's two years living in China, 2009 to 2010, that set the direction: he came home immersed in Chinese tea culture, and the two founded Chá Yê together, opening their first tea house in 2015 on Rua Fradique Coutinho in São Paulo's Pinheiros neighborhood.
The house works directly with growers rather than through importers or brokers, buying small lots from family producers and small farmers the founders know personally — a relationship built on annual sourcing trips back to China's tea-growing regions that the pair have kept up for roughly a decade. Alongside the tea shop, Chá Yê runs its own school, Escola Chá Yê, teaching courses on Chinese tea fundamentals and more specialized single-category deep dives, plus a menu built around Chinese cooking — dim sum, noodles and rice bowls — meant to be eaten alongside the tea rather than instead of a meal.
In a city where most tea retail treats Chinese tea as one category among many, Chá Yê narrows to just that one, run by two founders whose sourcing trips and personal relationships with the growers are the actual backbone of the business, not a marketing line layered on top of it.
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São Paulo / Brazil
Isabela Raposeiras, Brazil's first national barista champion, crowned in 2002, founded Coffee Lab in São Paulo and built its roasting program around obsessive iteration — the house tests dozens of roast profiles per micro-lot on a 12-kilogram-batch Diedrich roaster before settling on a final curve.
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Isabela Raposeiras, Brazil's first national barista champion, crowned in 2002, founded Coffee Lab in São Paulo and built its roasting program around obsessive iteration — the house tests dozens of roast profiles per micro-lot on a 12-kilogram-batch Diedrich roaster before settling on a final curve.
That level of profile testing has earned Coffee Lab recognition well outside Brazil: World Barista Champion Tim Wendelboe has cited it as a benchmark, a reference point from one of the sport's most decorated names.
For a roastery run by a champion barista who treats roast development as a variable to be tested dozens of times over rather than settled on instinct, Coffee Lab occupies rare territory — competition pedigree translated directly into a repeatable, tested roasting method rather than a marketing story built around a title.
Visit official site ↗São Paulo / Brazil
Matcha ceremonies and Japanese breakfast tastings from a certified tea sommelier who trained on a Japanese tea farm, at her own Paraíso tea house.
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Patricia Akemi, a certified tea sommelier who interned on a tea farm in Japan, and her husband Rodrigo Moribe opened Mori Chazeria in São Paulo's Paraíso neighborhood in August 2021, building the business around a 2018 trip Akemi took through Japan, China and Korea — grape harvesting, cooking classes, a tea ceremony, and a business fair in Shanghai among the stops. Reading Okakura Kakuzo's The Book of Tea, the classic text on Japanese tea ceremony and its place in Japanese culture, was another direct influence on what she decided to build.
The house runs matcha ceremonies, tasting workshops, and pairings with sweets and chocolate, alongside a recurring ASAGOHAN event recreating a full traditional Japanese breakfast. Its retail range spans green, black and oolong tea, rooibos and other infusions, sold alongside teapots, ceramics, cups and cold-brew equipment through its own online shop and the Paraíso storefront.
"Mori," the founders' own account explains, was built specifically to spread Asian culture and tea appreciation in Brazil — a mission that shows up less in any single signature blend than in the recurring ceremonies and workshops built to walk a visitor through the ritual itself, not just sell them a tin to take home.
Visit official site ↗São Paulo / Brazil
80+ premium tea blends, from Silver Needle to a Golden Pu-erh reserve, at the São Paulo house a mother-daughter team built after a Paris tea-shop epiphany.
Best for 80+ tea blends, from Silver Needle to Golden Pu-erh
Mônica Schvartsman and her daughter Mariana — then a university student studying economics — founded Talchá in São Paulo after a trip Mônica took to Paris left her, in Mariana's own account, with "a transformative experience in a French tea shop." The pair spent roughly two years developing blends before opening their first physical store at Shopping Pátio Higienópolis in November 2010, following it with a second at Shopping JK Iguatemi in 2012 -- the company's current store locator still lists just these two São Paulo locations, alongside nationwide e-commerce.
The founding idea was explicitly corrective: Mariana has said many Brazilians saw tea as something closer to medicine, and the business set out to show it could be "flavorful, aromatic and pleasurable" instead, building a catalog of more than 80 blend combinations around the argument that tea, like wine, carries its own terroir. The range runs from house blends to premium imported single-origin teas — Silver Needle, Gyokuro, Jasmine Pearls — and rarities like a Golden Pu-erh reserve, sold alongside a B2B program supplying cafés, restaurants, hotels and spas.
Fifteen years after one mother-daughter pair's Paris-inspired bet that Brazil had room for a French-style tea shop, Talchá is now one of São Paulo's more established gourmet tea retailers, still built on the same terroir-first argument it opened with.
Visit official site ↗Pinheiros, São Paulo
Specialty-coffee producer, roaster and café led by baristas Boram and Garam Um, serving coffees from the family farm and running subscriptions and coffee courses.
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Visit official site ↗Santana, Porto Alegre
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Visit official site ↗Chás Amaya
Heritage HouseRegistro / Brazil
The Amaya family arrived in Brazil in 1919 — Shutekishi and Nao Amaya, with sons Jorge, Hélio and Antonio — and settled in Registro, São Paulo, in the Bamburral district, where the family's factory and residence still stand today, the residence now listed as a heritage site by Brazil's national historic preservation institute (IPHAN).
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The Amaya family arrived in Brazil in 1919 — Shutekishi and Nao Amaya, with sons Jorge, Hélio and Antonio — and settled in Registro, São Paulo, in the Bamburral district, where the family's factory and residence still stand today, the residence now listed as a heritage site by Brazil's national historic preservation institute (IPHAN). In the 1930s the family began growing and processing tea, black tea first, under the name Irmãos Amaya; the company took the name Hélio Amaya Cia Ltda in 1957 and has stayed in family hands ever since.
Registro is not a typical tea address — it's a small city in the Ribeira Valley that Japanese immigrant families turned into Brazil's only real tea-growing region over the past century. Amaya's own plantation runs 87 hectares of Camellia sinensis, producing around 90 tons of tea a year, with output spanning black tea, green tea processed in a non-orthodox style, powdered green tea and oolong. In 2019 the company released what it markets as Brazil's first national oolong, half-oxidized for naturally sweet, fruity flavors with woody notes and hints of honey and toast.
More than a century after the family stepped off the boat, their tea still grows and gets processed on the same Registro land — one of a small handful of families anywhere in South America actually farming Camellia sinensis rather than importing it.
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D'Amazônia Origens sells Geographic Indication-certified Maués guaraná, roasted six hours from selectively harvested, pesticide-free beans. The range extends to Amazonian cacao nibs and organic Apuí coffee.
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Guaraná from Maués carries a Geographic Indication in Brazil, a legal status that ties the product's name to its region of origin, and D'Amazônia Origens sells only guaraná grown inside that certified zone, sourced directly from local producers rather than through intermediaries. The company's own description of its process is specific rather than aspirational: beans are roasted for six hours and selectively harvested, with no pesticides used at any stage. That single-origin discipline extends across the catalog rather than staying limited to the flagship product -- alongside classic and 'selected' grades of guaraná powder, the company sells the traditional bastão sticks used to grate guaraná directly at the table, organic guaraná capsules, and a line that pairs the stimulant with other Amazonian ingredients: guaraná-cumaru chocolate and cacao nibs sourced from the same region. A separate organic coffee line comes from Apuí, further south in Amazonas state. Checkout runs through Pix, card and PayPal, positioning the company as much for international buyers as for the domestic Brazilian market its Geographic Indication protects. It is a narrow specialization, one plant, one protected zone, held to deliberately, rather than a general Amazonian foods shop that happens to stock guaraná among other products.
Visit official site ↗Jardim Botânico, Porto Alegre
Guria Coffee Roasters is a Porto Alegre roaster whose online shop sells its own roasted coffee. Listed lots include Clasico G1, G2 and G3, Cafe Vereda Rubra and Cafe da Rosa, along with a roasting session and a coffee club.
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Visit official site ↗Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre boutique café and micro-roastery selecting, roasting and serving specialty coffee, with a stated commitment to its community and social causes.
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