The best specialty coffee in Riyadh
أفضل قهوة مختصة بالرياض
Riyadh takes its coffee seriously — roasters with single-origin menus, baristas who will happily explain your beans' life story, and V60s poured with lab precision. The specialty list, ranked by the people who queue for it.
الرياض تاخذ قهوتها بجدية — محامص بقوائم أحادية المصدر، وباريستا يشرح لك سيرة حبوبك الذاتية بكل حب، وV60 ينسكب بدقة مختبر. قائمة المختصة، مرتبة بشهادة اللي يصفّون لها.
38 places
- Chérie — Al Olaya · Specialty coffee & pastries
An elegant little room with serious pastries and the Spanish latte that started your friend’s whole personality. Opens at four — this one is an evening cafe, very Riyadh of it. - Alf — Al Wadi · Specialty coffee & desserts
A minimalist café celebrated for its Instagrammable water-feature interior, specialty coffee, and creative desserts. - BTW — An Nafal · Specialty coffee
A vibrant specialty café with trendy décor and a loyal local following — casual, welcoming, and quality-focused. - Belong — Nuzha · Specialty coffee
A relaxed neighborhood cafe that is open from six in the morning to two at night. Twenty hours a day, zero judgment about which end of it you show up at. - Crops — An Narjis · Specialty coffee
The work-friendly one: fast wifi, plugs that actually work, single-origin beans, and a clean minimalist space. Your laptop era starts here. - Truth — Alquds · Specialty Coffee
A serious specialty coffee roastery focused on quality beans, precise extraction, and an educational experience. - ORIGIN — Hittin · Specialty Coffee
A quality-obsessed roastery where the baristas will happily tell you the origin story of your beans. Ask one question and cancel your next meeting. - The Sift — Hittin · Specialty Coffee
Minimalist room, expertly pulled shots, and fresh bakes that have a habit of selling out before noon. Set an alarm, honestly. - Threes — At Taawun · Specialty coffee
A calm specialty-coffee spot that regulars treat as a study room — bring your laptop and settle in. - Basementers — Al Malqa · Roastery & specialty coffee
An in-house roastery in a cozy, plant-filled room — one of the few specialty spots where the wifi and the plugs are as reliable as the espresso. - Never Enough — An Narjis · Bakehouse & specialty coffee
Bakehouse and specialty coffee — 'we bake the world a better place'. Cookie-dough scoops are the signature. - Kultúra — Al Ghadir · Specialty coffee
Home of the viral 'cloud coffee' — industrial-chic interior stacked with vintage trinkets, and a queue to match. - Foam — Al Malqa · Specialty coffee
Elegant, earthy-toned café known for precise V60 brews — deliberately Wi-Fi-free so you actually disconnect. - VEO — Hittin · Specialty coffee
Specialty coffee on Suwayd Ibn Harithah St in Hittin — praised for its Saudi barista team and cinnabon-cheesecake combo. - Chic — King Salman District · Specialty coffee
'From Riyadh to the world' — a new classic-taste coffee concept getting early buzz for za'atar-chocolate bites. - 12 Cups — Alaqiq · Specialty coffee
One of Saudi's specialty-coffee pioneers (2013) — the first to let you pick both the bean and the brew method. - Black Wolf — Ghirnatah · Roastery & specialty coffee
Roaster and specialty café in Al Shuhada — regulars swear by the tiramisu and the 'wolf cake'. - Shovel — Al Olaya · Roastery & specialty coffee
'Coffee that inspires' — a roastery sourcing rare origins, with branches across east and central Riyadh. - Camel Step — At Taawun · Roastery & specialty coffee
Saudi specialty-coffee royalty — roasting since 2013, back when 'specialty' barely had a foothold in Riyadh. - Dopamine — Dhahrat Laban · Specialty coffee
A 'third place' café running since 2018 — cozy, adult-oriented (no under-7s), with gourmet pastries. - Markab — King Fahd · Specialty coffee
New specialty spot turning heads for its striking interior design. - RYM — An Narjis · Specialty coffee
Upscale little café in An Narjis with dialed-in coffee and polished service. - Cave — An Nafal · Specialty coffee
Cave-inspired design in An Nafal — strong coffee, varied desserts, indoor and outdoor seating. - Jadeel — Al Malqa · Specialty coffee & desserts
Specialty coffee with seriously good cakes and pastries, across several branches. - Press — Al Yasmin · Specialty coffee
'We press joy into cups' — 2026 newcomer in Al Yasmin with quiet indoor and outdoor seating. - nāp — Al Qirawan · Specialty coffee
'nap in full bloom' — small trendy spot in Al Qirawan famous for its tiramisu; a second branch is on the way. - Jazel — Ad Diriyah · Specialty coffee
Specialty café balancing 'excellence and comfort', with branches in Diriyah and near Al Quds. - Mkth — Ghirnatah · Specialty coffee
Slow-down café ('makth' = to linger) with a minimalist mood. - GLIM — Ar Rahmaniyah · Specialty coffee
Fresh opening in Ar Rahmaniyah with a second spot on Takhassusi Street. - CAF LAB — Qurtubah · Specialty coffee
Lab-themed specialty coffee spot in Qurtubah, pouring until 2 AM. - SHOTS — Hittin · Specialty coffee & sweets
Specialty coffee and artisanal sweets on Hittin's café strip, Suwayd Ibn Harithah Street. - Shml — Al Qirawan · Specialty coffee
Quiet neighbourhood specialty café on Shaikh Abdullah Ibn Jabreen Street in Al Qirawan. - FOR Coffee Roasters — Al Qirawan · Roastery & specialty coffee
Al Qirawan roastery pulling shots from early morning to 1 AM, with a Friday prayer-break pause. - Ochre — KAFD · Specialty coffee
A slim coffee bar doing seasonal pours — the date latte is the move — with fresh cinnamon buns on the side. In and out, no fuss. - Over Under — VIA Riyadh · Specialty coffee & brunch
Specialty coffee and brunch by day; at night 'The Flip' turns the room into a packed mocktail bar. London via New York, and very Via Riyadh about it. - ORIGIN JAX — JAX District · Specialty Coffee
ORIGIN's flagship in a converted JAX warehouse — café, working roastery and workspace in one raw industrial hall. Evenings only, and better for it. - Caffeination — Laysen Valley · Specialty Coffee
An indoor-outdoor café built like a big shared living room. Proper filter coffee, and sandwiches good enough to quietly become lunch. - Draft Café — U Walk · Specialty Coffee
Specialty coffee with a creative-shop twist — pastries, collectibles and rotating pop-ups by U Walk's Gate 8. You'll leave with something you didn't plan to buy.