World coffee
How coffee is actually made in the places that drink the most of it.
By country
Vietnam
Robusta, condensed milk and the phin filter.
Greece
Frappé, freddo and the briki.
Turkey & the Middle East
Cezve coffee, cardamom and the long pour.
Italy
Beyond espresso: the regional drinks nobody exports.
Spain & Portugal
Condensed milk, layered glasses and lemon peel.
Latin America
Cuban espuma, clay pots and piloncillo.
Southeast Asia
Kopi, charcoal and sweetened condensed milk.
India
Filter kaapi, the davara and the tumbler.
East Asia
Slow drip, flash chill and whipped coffee.
Austria & Germany
Whipped cream, glass mugs and a little rum.
The Nordics
Egg coffee, cheese in the cup and a lot of it.
Africa
Where coffee started, and how it is still drunk there.
Russia & Eastern Europe
Raf coffee and the Soviet-era cafe.
Britain & Ireland
Irish coffee and the cream float.
Abatanado
A single or double espresso lengthened with hot water in a big cup, for a long black coffee that still tastes…
Arabian Coffee
Very strong, very bitter, unsweetened dark coffee perfumed with cardamom, poured a mouthful at a time into…
Bac Xiu
Condensed milk, fresh milk and a short pour of robusta over ice, so the glass is pale and sweet with the coffee…
Barraquito
Four layers in a small glass: condensed milk, Licor 43, espresso, steamed milk foam, with a strip of lemon peel…
Beaten Coffee
A spoonful of instant coffee and sugar beaten by hand until it turns pale and creamy, then a cup of hot milk…
Bicerin
Thick drinking chocolate at the bottom, espresso in the middle, cold cream floating on top, in three bands you…
Ca Phe Sua Da
Thick, bitter robusta and sweet condensed milk, stirred hot and thrown over ice. It tastes like dark caramel…
Cafe Bombon
Half sweetened condensed milk, half espresso, in a small glass, the white and the black clearly separate until…
Cafe con Hielo
A hot espresso and a glass of ice, served side by side. You sweeten the coffee while it is hot, then tip it…
Cafe de Olla
A dark, sweet, cinnamon-scented coffee with molasses depth from piloncillo and a bright edge of orange. It…
Cafezinho
A small, strong, sweet black coffee with a heavy body, poured from a thermos and offered to anyone who walks…
Caffe d'Orzo
A dark, toasty drink that tastes of malt, bread crust and a little bitter chocolate, with no caffeine at all.…
Caffe Leccese
A hot espresso poured over ice and sweet almond syrup, stirred until cold and lightly creamy. It tastes like…
Café Cubano
The first few drops of espresso whipped hard with sugar into a pale paste, then the rest of the shot stirred…
Café Touba
Coffee beans roasted together with djar pepper, then ground, brewed through a cloth and sweetened hard. It…
Carajillo
A short, cold, foamy coffee cocktail, sweet with vanilla and citrus from Licor 43 and bitter from a fresh…
Cardamom Turkish Coffee
A thick, foamy Turkish-style coffee with a cool, floral, slightly eucalyptus lift from green cardamom. One pod…
Coconut Coffee
A spoonable coconut slush under a slick of dark robusta, somewhere between iced coffee and a dessert. It holds…
Colada
A small styrofoam cup of very strong, very sweet Cuban coffee and a stack of thimble-sized cups to share it…
Cortadito
A small cup, half dark sweet Cuban coffee with its caramel foam, half hot milk. It is richer and much sweeter…
Crema di Caffe
A pale, airy, half-frozen coffee cream, sweet and intensely coffee-flavoured, eaten with a spoon from a small…
Cypriot Coffee
A small, thick, unfiltered coffee with a tan foam on top, served with a glass of cold water and usually a…
Dalgona Coffee
Whipped instant coffee, thick enough to hold a peak, floated on cold milk. The whole thing is a 1:1:1 ratio and…
Dirty Coffee
A small glass of ice-cold milk with a hot ristretto floating on top, its crema running down the inside of the…
Einspanner
Strong black coffee in a glass, buried under a thick layer of cold whipped cream that you drink the coffee…
Eiskaffee
A tall glass of cold coffee with scoops of vanilla ice cream in it and a swirl of whipped cream on top, eaten…
Es Kopi Susu
A tall glass of iced milk coffee sweetened with palm sugar, smoky and caramel rather than just sweet. It is a…
Espressino
A small glass with chocolate in the bottom, espresso, and soft milk foam on top, often with more chocolate or…
Ethiopian Buna
Green coffee roasted in a pan in front of the guests, crushed in a mortar, boiled in a clay pot and poured into…
Fiaker
A glass of strong black coffee with rum and sugar stirred in, under a cap of whipped cream, sometimes with a…
Freddo Cappuccino
Frothed iced espresso under a thick, dense cap of cold milk foam that you drink the coffee through. The foam is…
Freddo Espresso
A double espresso whipped with a couple of ice cubes until it turns to foam, then poured over a fresh glass of…
Gaelic Coffee
An Irish coffee made with Scotch: hot, sweet black coffee and whisky under a cold collar of lightly whipped…
Galao
A tall glass, mostly hot foamy milk, with a single espresso through it. It is lighter and milder than a latte,…
Greek Coffee
Thick, strong unfiltered coffee in a small cup, with a tan foam called kaimaki across the top and a layer of…
Greek Frappe
A tall glass of iced coffee under a thick, long-lasting tan foam, made from instant coffee in a shaker or with…
Gulf Qahwa
A pale gold, almost tea-like coffee, heavy with cardamom and tinted with saffron, poured an inch deep into…
Indian Cold Coffee
A thick, frothy, milky blended coffee, sweet and very cold, sometimes with a scoop of ice cream whizzed in. In…
Ipoh White Coffee
A pale, frothy, sweet milk coffee, smoother and nuttier than ordinary kopi. The white has nothing to do with…
Japanese Iced Coffee
A bright, aromatic iced coffee that tastes like your best pour-over, only cold. You brew it hot straight onto…
Kaffeost, Coffee with Cheese
Cubes of squeaky Finnish bread cheese in the bottom of the cup with hot coffee poured over them. The cheese…
Kapuziner
A small cup of strong black coffee with just enough cream to turn it the colour of a Capuchin friar's robe. It…
Karsk
A glass of thin coffee with an alarming amount of clear spirit in it, measured by a coin at the bottom of the…
Kopi Joss, Charcoal Coffee
A glowing ember of hardwood charcoal dropped straight into a glass of sweet black coffee. It hisses, throws up…
Kopi Tubruk
A glass of strong, sweet black coffee with the grounds still in it, settled to a thick layer at the bottom. It…
Kopi, Kopi O and Kopi C
Thick, dark, butter-roasted coffee pulled through a cloth sock and sweetened at the counter in exact, coded…
Kyoto Slow Drip
A clear, dark, intensely aromatic cold coffee, almost like a liqueur, made by letting ice water fall onto a bed…
Marocchino
A small glass of espresso layered with cocoa and a thick cap of milk foam, bitter chocolate first and soft milk…
Mastic Coffee
A Greek coffee with a cool, resinous, faintly pine-like scent coming off the foam. It comes from a single tear…
Mazagran
Cold coffee, lemon and sugar over ice. It sounds wrong and tastes like a coffee lemonade, bitter and bright at…
Nous Nous
A short glass, half coffee and half foamy hot milk, usually sweetened at the table. It is the drink every…
Oliang
A tall glass of very sweet, very cold black coffee with a toasty, nutty, almost cereal edge from the roasted…
Pharisaer
A cup of strong, sweet black coffee with a generous shot of rum, sealed under a thick layer of whipped cream so…
Raf Coffee
Espresso, cream and vanilla sugar steamed together as one liquid rather than layered. It was invented in a…
Rudesheimer Kaffee
German brandy warmed and flamed with sugar until it caramelises, hot coffee poured over, then a thick cap of…
Scandinavian Egg Coffee
A whole egg, shell included, mixed into the grounds before they hit the water. The egg protein grabs every…
South Indian Filter Coffee
A small steel tumbler of sweet, milky, frothy coffee, poured from height between the tumbler and its…
Spiced Buna
Strong Ethiopian coffee brewed with smoky korerima cardamom and a little cinnamon, with a fresh sprig of rue…
Thai Iced Coffee
Strong, dark, grain-scented Thai coffee sweetened with condensed milk, poured over crushed ice and finished…
Tinto
A small cup of black coffee, lighter and sweeter than an espresso, sold for very little from thermoses on…
Turkish Coffee
Small, strong and thick, with a dense tan foam that should cover the whole cup and a layer of grounds below you…
Vietnamese Egg Coffee
Egg yolk whipped with condensed milk into a warm custard foam, floated on strong phin-brewed robusta. It drinks…
Vietnamese Salt Coffee
Lightly salted cream over phin coffee and condensed milk. The salt is not a gimmick: it blocks the bitterness…
Wiener Melange
A large cup of mild coffee, half steamed milk, under a soft cap of milk foam. It is Vienna's most ordered…
Yemeni Qishr
A copper-coloured, tea-like drink that tastes of dried cherries, hibiscus and fresh ginger, with a gentle…
Yogurt Coffee
Thick, sweet-sour yogurt in the bottom of the glass, crushed ice, and a dark pour of robusta over the top. It…
Yuanyang
Coffee and milk tea in the same cup, smooth and strong, with the tea's tannins and the coffee's roast landing…