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Coffee is roasted on-site at Rum Baba's Pretoriusstraat bakery in Amsterdam, alongside sourdough bread and chocolate-vanilla marble cake. Simon Lévelt traces its coffee and tea business to an Amsterdam harbour shop opened by its namesake merchant in 1826. White Label Coffee roasts filter coffee at White Label West on Jan Evertsenstraat, using a six-kilogram Giesen machine. The Amsterdam roaster also has a location in Noord, alongside its café and roasting premises in the west.
De Pijp
Rum Baba roasts its coffee on-site at its Pretoriusstraat bakery and roastery in Amsterdam, alongside sourdough bread, croissants, and a chocolate-vanilla marble cake. A separate café location and an appointment-only roastery round out its three Amsterdam sites.
Best for In-house sourdough and marble cake alongside on-site coffee roasting.
Amsterdam / Netherlands
Simon Lévelt traces back to 1826, when the merchant it's named for opened a small shop in Amsterdam's old harbor selling coffee and tea brought in from distant trading routes — two centuries of continuous operation, now in its sixth generation of family involvement.
Best for Dutch coffee and tea from a merchant trading since 1826
Simon Lévelt traces back to 1826, when the merchant it's named for opened a small shop in Amsterdam's old harbor selling coffee and tea brought in from distant trading routes — two centuries of continuous operation, now in its sixth generation of family involvement. The company has since centered its production in Haarlem, where it roasts coffee and packs tea, and employs a certified Q-grader on staff to evaluate quality to an internationally standardized protocol.
Today Simon Lévelt carries more than 150 tea varieties alongside some 25 coffees, sold through a network of 40 specialty stores across the Netherlands and Belgium as well as online, with same-day shipping for weekday orders placed before noon. Running coffee and tea as parallel, equally serious specialties — rather than treating one as the other's sideline — is a structure that traces directly back to the original 1826 harbor shop, which sold both from the start.
For a Dutch merchant house old enough to predate most of the countries it now sources tea from, the 40-store footprint across two countries is the modern scale of a business that has never stopped being, at its core, one small harborside shop's original two-product idea.
Oud-West
Amsterdam specialty coffee roaster whose main cafe and roastery, White Label West, sits on Jan Evertsenstraat in the Oud-West/De Baarsjes area; roasts filter coffee on-site on a 6kg Giesen machine and also runs a second location in Amsterdam Noord.
Best for Single-origin roasts treated the same for filter or espresso, four Amsterdam locations.
White Label Coffee roasts out of Amsterdam, running three of its own spaces — West on Jan Evertsenstraat, Zon on Zonneplein, and its roastery on Jan van Breemenstraat — plus a partner counter at Native in Haarlem. The house has quietly dropped the old filter-versus-espresso split that most roasters still use to sort a menu: origins are roasted the same way "regardless of brewing method," a bet that a well-sourced lot doesn't need a different profile just because it's headed for a V60 instead of a portafilter. Current single origins run through Ethiopia, Colombia, Rwanda and Thailand, sold by the 150–250g bag through direct relationships the company describes as running "all through the chain" — sourcing, roasting and the counter under one accountable line. Mail order ships out at a fixed 16:00 cutoff every weekday, and a rotating subscription adds an element of surprise to what lands in the bag. Beyond retail, White Label also runs a wholesale arm, supplying cafés, restaurants and offices around Amsterdam with beans, equipment guidance and staff training — the behind-the-counter work that doesn't show up on a shop's Instagram but is where a lot of a roaster's actual volume goes.
Historic centre, Delft
In Delft's old centre, Neef Rob roasts around eighteen of its own blends and keeps close to a hundred loose teas, alongside Michelin-chef bonbons, Italian nougat and liqueurs made in-house. Delft has voted it the city's best coffee shop four times, including in 2019 as reported by GrachtenBeans.
Best for Delft's old-centre roastery and tea house
On Choorstraat in Delft's old centre, Neef Rob runs a shop that splits evenly between coffee and tea rather than treating one as a sideline to the other. The roastery turns out around eighteen of its own coffee blends, roasted and packaged in house, while the tea side stocks close to a hundred loose varieties that staff blend themselves, including a Delftse Theemelange built around the spices the Dutch East India Company brought through nearby Delfshaven around 1650. A tasting room and horeca license let customers drink on site rather than only buying to go, and the shop layers in bonbons made by a Michelin-starred chef, hand-rolled Italian nougat, and homemade liqueurs paired with matching chocolates. The combination has been recognized locally: Neef Rob has been voted Delft's best coffee shop four times and counted among South Holland's top venues, with five-star ratings on TripAdvisor and Restaurant Guru backing up the local polls. It is a shop built on volume of choice in two categories at once, coffee and tea both treated as a full range rather than an afterthought, with a confectionery counter substantial enough to be a reason to visit on its own.
Rotterdam / Netherlands
In Rotterdam, Evermore brings together a shop, bar and coffee roastery focused on tea, coffee and chocolate, with tastings and workshops.
Best for Tea, coffee and chocolate
Groningen, Netherlands
Black & Bloom roasts specialty coffee in Groningen and pours filter, espresso, and milk drinks at its bar, with beans that have placed in national roasting and brewing competitions. Freshly roasted bags ship through the webshop, with free delivery over fifty euros.
Best for Black & Bloom roasts specialty coffee in Groningen and pours filter, espresso
Black & Bloom was founded by Gerben Engelkes on August 2, 2012, after several years running two locations of a coffee franchise in Groningen starting in 2008. Two SCAE (Speciality Coffee Association of Europe) courses pushed him toward an independent operation with full creative control over sourcing and roasting rather than a franchise format. The shop buys specialty-grade, single-origin coffee bought in season from producers worldwide, with a stated goal of becoming a leading specialty-coffee source within Groningen's coffee culture. Espresso runs through a Synesso machine, and filter coffee is served through Hario, Kalita, and Aeropress methods, giving the bar several ways to show the same beans. Freshly roasted bags of coffee and tea ship nationally through the webshop, with free delivery over fifty euros, and the beans themselves have placed in Dutch national roasting and brewing competitions. The result is a small-city roaster built around one person's move from franchise management to hands-on sourcing and roasting — a bar in Groningen city center where the equipment and the season-driven bean list are as much the point as the espresso and filter drinks themselves.
Leiden
Dino Coffee roasts to order in small batches, delivering within 5-10 days, and stocks a limited Janson LOT 985 Geisha lot. It supplies Leiden cafés including Roka Delicious Food and Oogst.
Best for It supplies Leiden cafés including Roka Delicious Food and Oogst
Dino Coffee roasts to order rather than holding pre-roasted stock, with the company itself stating a five-to-ten working-day turnaround between order and delivery so beans go out close to their actual roast date. That approach caps the business at genuinely small runs -- the roaster pauses roasting almost entirely over a summer holiday period, resuming with what the site calls the "next burn date" once the break ends, a scheduling rhythm most larger roasters wouldn't tolerate. Its beans reach Leiden through direct retail relationships rather than a wide supermarket footprint: Roka Delicious Food, 't Suppiershuysinge, Oogst and MijnTafel all stock Dino Coffee locally. The current catalog includes limited, high-end offerings alongside the everyday lineup -- a Janson LOT 985 Geisha lot, a variety generally prized for its floral, tea-like cup, sold in limited quantity at a premium price point. Dino also sells brewing equipment directly, including the Hario V60, which the operation names as its own preferred method, describing it on-site as "simple and pure, as coffee is meant to be." Registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, the company presents itself less as a retail cafe chain and more as a small, order-driven roasting operation supplying a short list of named Leiden accounts.
Lange Mare 44A
Van Lith has made bonbons and truffles from its Lange Mare shop for over 20 years, offering hundreds of flavors including a sugar-free line. Named bonbons include caramel sea salt and coffee liqueur.
Best for Named bonbons include caramel sea salt and coffee liqueur
Van Lith Chocolatiers has worked from Lange Mare in central Leiden for more than twenty years ("ruim 20 jaar"), building a bonbon and truffle range the shop itself describes as running into "hundreds of unique flavors." The catalog covers roomtruffels (cream truffles), repen (bars), geboortechocolade (birth-announcement chocolate), rumbonen (rum-soaked chocolates), nougat and smeltchocolade (melting chocolate), alongside standard bonbons. A dedicated sugar-free line runs across white, dark and milk chocolate rather than being confined to one variety, meeting a specific dietary need most small chocolatiers don't stock at that range. Individual flavors named on the site include caramel sea salt -- a cream-filled bonbon topped with liquid caramel and sea salt -- a coffee liqueur bonbon available in white or dark chocolate, and a blood-orange creme filling set in white chocolate. The shop maintains an allergen list for customers navigating the wide flavor range, and posts holiday-hours updates through its Facebook page rather than a formal e-commerce storefront, suggesting a business still run on direct, walk-in retail rather than shipped online orders. Two decades in one Leiden address, with a flavor range wide enough to need its own allergen documentation, points to a chocolatier whose scale sits well above a typical neighborhood bonbon counter.
Warffum, Groningen, Netherlands
VanRoast roasts single-origin coffee in a converted Art Deco building in Warffum, running its roasters entirely on self-generated solar power with electrostatic smoke filtering. Visits are by appointment; beans ship online with Friday pickup.
Best for Solar-roasted single origins from a converted Art Deco haberdashery in Warffum
VanRoast roasts out of a former Art Deco building on Warffum's Hoofdstraat that has already lived several lives — a print works, a grocery, and a haberdashery before it became a roastery. The equipment inside is the more unusual detail: electric roasters run entirely on solar power the company generates itself, with advanced electrostatic filters neutralizing smoke and odor rather than venting it, letting the roastery operate without fossil fuel input at any stage. The bean range is built on single origins from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru, alongside house espresso blends named Tradizionale, Prestigio and Special Aroma, plus decaf and tea. Visits to the roastery itself run by appointment only, reflecting a small operation rather than a public-facing cafe, though a Friday pickup window and an online shop cover regular customers. VanRoast describes its own method as combining "traditional techniques with modern innovations" — an apt summary of a business pairing century-old brick with a fully solar power supply. A planned expansion, a small bed-and-breakfast named Het Ambachtshuis opening above the roastery in 2026, suggests the operation is building toward becoming a full destination rather than staying a mail-order roaster in a repurposed shop.
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