Roasting in Odesa since 2015, Foundation sells its High5 specialty coffee line - a repeat medalist at national and international championships - alongside tea, matcha, hot chocolate and brewing gear, plus a B2B supply arm and franchising.
Best for High5 specialty coffee, tea, matcha and hot chocolate
Foundation has roasted coffee in Odesa since 2015, running its business from 3rd Vodoprovidny Lane and building an online store that now covers far more than beans. The core of the operation is specialty-grade coffee sold as whole bean, drip bags and capsules, anchored by the in-house High5 line - a sub-brand the company says has repeatedly medaled at national and international coffee championships, a claim it makes as its own stated marker of quality. Beyond coffee itself, the catalog extends into tea, matcha and hot chocolate, plus brewing equipment and accessories for home setups, positioning Foundation as a full beverage retailer rather than a single-product roaster. The company also runs a B2B arm supplying food-service accounts and offers franchise opportunities, extending its reach past retail sales into the wider Ukrainian cafe trade. On its own site, Foundation frames its identity around consistency over flash, stating plainly that "regardless of any design changes, impeccable product quality is the most important issue" - a decade-plus-old roastery leaning on repeat-customer trust rather than novelty. For a shop operating through wartime conditions in Odesa, that continuity is notable in itself: eleven years of daily roasting and an expanding retail catalog in a city where normal business operations carry real added difficulty.
Svit Kavy imports green coffee directly from origin in partnership with Mare Terra, roasting and pouring it across cafés in Lviv and Kyiv. It also runs a subscription and horeca supply service.
Best for Direct-sourced single-origin coffee imported from origin in partnership with Mare Terra
TEAHOUSE traces to 1996, when a tea distribution business started in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region; ten years later, in 2006, founders Kostiantyn Mazuryk and Svitlana Kobelyeva turned it into a retail brand and trademark of its own.
Best for Tea blended from imported leaf and Ukrainian-grown herbs and fruit
TEAHOUSE traces to 1996, when a tea distribution business started in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region; ten years later, in 2006, founders Kostiantyn Mazuryk and Svitlana Kobelyeva turned it into a retail brand and trademark of its own. The company built a tea-blending and packing facility in Dnipro, importing leaf from tea-growing countries across Asia, Africa and South America while buying herbs and fruit directly from Ukrainian farmers for its own infusions — a dual sourcing line most Ukrainian tea retailers don't run. Over roughly two decades the brand grew to 22 stores, company-owned and franchised, including a 2019 flagship inside Kyiv's TsUM department store carrying more than a hundred teas, its largest shop yet.
In July 2025, a Russian attack on Dnipro destroyed the company's production facilities and warehouse, wiping out equipment and finished stock. TEAHOUSE said rebuilding would take 11 to 12 months, secured a Ukrainian government grant toward new equipment, and kept its online store and remaining physical shops running through the recovery — including preparing for that autumn's Kyiv tea festival. The brand's own account of itself, echoed in Ukrainian business press, is of a company still filling orders and still blending tea while rebuilding the plant that makes it.
Odesa is one of Ukraine's most Russified cities, and for twenty years this Yevropeiska Street bookstore-café has stocked Ukrainian-language titles from more than 100 publishers while hosting author meetings and reading clubs. Browse and order online, or visit to pair a book with a cup of coffee.
Best for Ukrainian-language books and coffee with more than 100 publishers represented on the shelves
Odesa is one of Ukraine's most Russified cities, and for twenty years this Yevropeiska Street shop has run under the motto "Ukraine in Odesa, Odesa in Ukraine" as the region's leading vendor of Ukrainian-language history, philosophy, and cultural titles, drawing on more than 100 Ukrainian publishers. Beyond the counter, the store organizes author meetings, rural outreach visits, children's readings, and conversation clubs, and takes part in the annual Lypky Readings and the Ukrainian Book in Odesa forum as well as international literary festivals; roughly fifty contemporary Ukrainian authors had their first Odesa presentation through the shop. Its activity has extended into wartime relief work, including support for a Crimea-relocated maritime college's library and book distribution to soldiers. The café side keeps the format simple — a cup of coffee alongside new releases and academic and popular history titles, sold in-store or through the shop's own delivery. It is a rare combination in the region: a book-loving atmosphere built specifically around Ukrainian-language publishing, in a city where that selection has historically been hard to find, run for two decades as much as a cultural project as a retail one.
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