The Family Coffee Roasters — Restaurant in Sofia City

I like coffee here, but it really depends on who makes your coffee. Sometimes it's not what you expect, but my first visit was great. Latte art looked luxurious and tasted delicious. Other times it was more average. What I have to highlight, however, is the space, which is cozy and intimate and you slow down the hustle and bustle outside around you, for a moment. Comfortable seating, which is not at all the norm in small cafes in Sofia. They also work with specialty coffee, there is a toilet available and it's a few minutes from the NDK metro, so the location is also good. I would rank it among the better ones you can get on the coffee...

Was impressed with the coffee at their original place in Plovdiv a few years ago. In Sofia: two visits with a few weeks in between (outside peak hours), two different baristas, two mid coffees. Didn't try the pastries, but they looked super dry and unappetising both times. The service isn't that great either. The actual beans seem to be of good quality, but I'd rather prepare them myself. For a better café or takeout experience, there are 2 consistently solid specialty places just around the corner and 2 more if you walk a few minutes south (some of which also offer excellent homemade brownies and...

I'm really disappointed with The Family Coffee Roasters. Their inability to craft a decent espresso macchiato is quite frustrating. It's evident that they're using their customers as guinea pigs to train a new barista who seems completely clueless about such a basic order. It's hard to believe that this café can truly be considered a destination for specialty coffee. Despite having decent YouTube tutorials on how to prepare an espresso macchiato, conveying this in person seemed to have zero effect on the new barista's enthusiasm or...