Good Cup · 8 November 2026
Go to SoLo Brewing for Portugal's roaster of the year, to SO Coffee Roasters for two national champions behind the bar, and to Orioli for coffee from the owners' own farm in Brazil. All three are in central Lisbon, a metro ride from the arena.
Web Summit 2026 is at MEO Arena in Parque das Nações, on the north-east edge of Lisbon. The city's best coffee is in the centre and the west, and the red metro line from Oriente, next to the arena, gets you there. In November 2026 we rate three cafés in Lisbon Excellent and none Outstanding. After them come the cafés with a champion behind the bar, a world-class roaster on the grinder or a proper brunch beside a good cup.
SoLo Brewing began in Recife, Brazil, in 2021, and two years later opened a roastery-café in Saldanha with Adroaldo Henrique Carneiro behind it. In 2025 a jury and a public vote at Porto Coffee Week named it Best Coffee Roaster in Portugal. Its coffees name their producers: Leon Christianakys's Geisha from Acacia Hills in Tanzania, a farm that grew a coffee used at the 2026 World Barista Championship, and a lot SoLo says was chosen as the coffee of Portugal's AeroPress Championship 2024; Danilo Barbosa's Geisha from Brazil; Diego Bermudez in Colombia. Espresso comes off a Slayer, filter is brewed by hand, there is nitro, and the kitchen does brunch. One of its labels tells a “reverse colonisation”: caravels from Pernambuco crossing the sea to bring coffee to Portugal.
SO stands for southwest, where Portugal and the founders' home town of Porto sit on the map of Europe. Lisa, Pedro and João started roasting there in 2019; in Lisbon, SO runs an espresso and filter bar inside The Feeting Room in Chiado. Rui Pedrosa, Portuguese Barista Champion 2022, reached the semi-final of the World Barista Championship that year. Luiz Lahutte Motta won Portugal's Brewers Cup and competed at the World Brewers Cup 2025 in Jakarta. The coffee is the whole experience here, and it is what people come for: Pepe Jijón's Sidra from Finca Soledad in Ecuador, a Typica Mejorada from Finca Putushio, Kayanza from Burundi.
Since 1994 Álvaro and Lucinea Orioli have cared for Fazenda Bagagem, a farm beside Chapada dos Veadeiros in Brazil's Cerrado, three quarters of it kept as native forest. Their first coffee trees went in in 2007. Their son Felipe became a Q Grader and moved to Lisbon to grow the family project, and the farm's Geisha, Paraíso and Ipê-Amarelo are now on the bar in Alcântara, next to Felipe Luzon's Typica from Ecuador. Santiago Bratschi, second at the Portuguese Barista Championship 2025, is on the team; Felipe and his team teach SCA courses and run cuppings. Orioli is known for its desserts too.
Rebecca Yang, Portuguese Barista Champion 2025, competed for Portugal at the World Barista Championship and works at W YOU Coffee in Areeiro. Violetta Yablovskaya, Portugal's Cup Tasters Champion, competed at the World Cup Tasters 2025 and won Portugal's AeroPress Championship in 2022; she is at Tomorrow at 9 in Avenidas Novas. Both cafés are good for breakfast as well.
La Cabra from Aarhus is poured at Ele Ela Cafe in Santos, Dramático in Santo António and Anemia in Ajuda. Five Elephant from Berlin is at Quest in São Bento. Manhattan from Rotterdam is at Parioca in Alcântara.
For a long breakfast before the arena, these kitchens sit beside a world-class roaster. Buna in São Bento pours Nomad, from espresso to nitro. MAS Specialty Coffee & Brunch near Saldanha pours Dak and Nomad. Tact in Madragoa pours Dak and The Coffee Collective. Liberty in Santos pours Dak, Friedhats and Tanat, with wine and books. Lugar Nenhum in Anjos pours La Cabra, and Senzi Lisboa in Cais do Sodré pours Nomad. SoLo does brunch too, beside its own roast.
Sense of Coffee, about a kilometre from the arena, pours Friedhats from Amsterdam, a roaster we rate World-class, and Morgon from Gothenburg. Ask for one of them as a pour-over: the rest of the menu leans to sweet drinks.
Each café's page on Good Cup shows its team and their results, the roasters it pours, its coffees and the farms behind them. The Lisbon guide gathers the champions, the world-class roasters and the brunch cafés on their own lists.