Weststadt & Oststadt, Karlsruhe
iaro opened in 2020 as a small window café in Karlsruhe, founded by Armin Zandieh and Nabila, before building its own roastery in 2022. Its signature Muriqui espresso now anchors two locations plus barista workshops.
Best for Muriqui espresso and barista workshops
iaro started in 2020 as a small window café in Karlsruhe, opened by co-founders Armin Zandieh and Nabila, and didn't begin roasting its own coffee until 2022, when the company built out its in-house roastery. That two-year gap between opening the counter and controlling the roast shows in how the menu is structured now: Muriqui, the modern signature espresso, sits alongside Oso as an easier entry point and Cotorra as the decaf option, each named rather than numbered, and each also sold as Nespresso-compatible capsules for home use. The original café, now called iaro west, is on Sophienstraße; a second location, iaro ost, opened later on Rintheimerstraße, both keeping the same Monday-to-Friday 8am-5pm, weekend 9am-5pm hours. An in-house bakery supplies both sites, baking pastries on-site rather than bringing them in from a separate supplier. Beyond the counter, iaro runs paid instruction — a €129 barista workshop, an €89 latte art class, and a €29 online Barista Basics course — extending the roastery's self-described focus on controlling 'the entire process, from the coffee plant to your cup' into teaching customers to replicate parts of that process themselves.
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