Finca Victoria — Restaurant in Magdalena

We came to this "coffee farm" after a long trekking from our hostel . The day before , when we were planning our tour , we noticed on the map that 2 places had the same name , and that actually the first one we should have met on our way was supposed to be the "Bistrot la Victoria" , and the second one more uphill "La Victoria". We decided to go and see both of them . We arrived at "Bistrot la Victoria" around 1pm, quite small for being a coffee farm ; got warmly welcome from a well dressed woman , covered of jewellery. We asked her for a coffee tour and she told us to go upstairs, get a coffee and wait for her ( since she was guiding another tour at the moment ) . We went upstairs , took coffees, 2 pieces of cakes and a mango juice. The coffee was nothing special, the cakes good but overpriced .. The Mango juice nothing but water!While waiting we asked for the wi-fi: we should pay 1,000COP each to get on-line , which was not ok when you are client of the place and already paying for your drinks .. but we needed it . So .. got the wi-fi which was mostly of the time not working . We waited 40 minutes for the woman ,then annoyed we asked the girls at the reception , and we were told she was not there! Very disappointed we decided to look for the second place " La victoria" and started climbing uphill , since we entered a very nice property , with a big garden rich in trees and flowers , a garage hosting a nice Willy jeep , two dogs unfortunately ( or fortunatly) at the chain ....We thought we were in the right place when we saw the woman of the Bistrot  coming out of the building with another woman.. but we were wrong . She came out , and she was everything but nice and welcoming to us . In her arrogant way She was pushing us away from the property , screeming  that was not the coffee farm but a private property .That left us very disappointed , asking ourselves why she was soo welcoming at her farm and so arrogant at her property ( we literally didn't walk around the property but just walked one meter in front of the entrance of it). We went back to the Bistrot to get a sandwich , and while waiting tried to use the wi fi again with no chance ... Said that in my opinion this is not a place worth going neither for coffee or the coffee tour . There are many others coffee farm where you can do the tour , absolutely worth going like "La Candelaria" where they offers you a free coffee and were you can buy a very good homemade chocolate. Concerning the owner of "La Victoria" .. In my opinion she learned nothing from this country and the Colombian people . Colombian are welcoming either at their properties or at their farms , love to talk to foreigners, always have something to offer . Colombia is amazing from south to north , east to west especially in remote places were kindness is a gift . Is really a shame that some people to survive and get their daily meal must be employed from such bad persons , using them to make money , looking at the tourists like they are walking dollars and...

Expected more. Maybe grown too big to maintain a personalised coffee tour experience. Note we didn't do a tour, as we found that the guides are often foreigners from ' workaway' that stay for a month or so which makes me wonder how much they understand the operation and can answer questions. We overheard one guide saying he "hates when the tourists ask too many questions" The cafe is pretty basic, enclosed and hot. There is no airflow and the views are no comparison to other places we had been in Minca. The cafe also had more "workaway" staff. I'm sure it varies with the staff on rotation but we asked for the juice of the day and were told they have none, but she could probably make one in 10 minutes. Sounded like it was too much effort for her, so we went with a bottled kombuca you can buy in town also. Meanwhile we overheard the same staff member complaining multiple times of how busy they had been today. "At one point we had to make 10 sandwiches at once" sometimes I have a bad day at work too.. but I never let clients/customers know that's the case. Also no coffee shop in the cafe? Lastly the cafe also sells the local beers but I thought maybe they'd be on tap? I just had higher expectations of the place. If the environment was more friendly it...

Wow, what an experience! We hiked all the way from Minca up to Finca Victoria (careful, it's a lonnnnng uphill hike) and I was totally pleasantly surprised with this coffee farm.

The people are super nice, the place is mega sustainable (everything is run off one generator that's powered by a stream), and the coffee is truly perfect. I'm not a fan of drip coffee, I like espresso, but this was hand's down some of the best coffee I've ever had (which makes sense, they sell the unroasted beans for an egregious amount).

Did the tour and it was highly informative, learned a lot, got to see the different qualities of beans, how they gravity separate, etc etc. At the end you get a cup of coffee.

There's also a small restaurant with beer and snacks, and the area is stunningly beautiful, and we even managed to see some monkeys in the distance. Much of the walk up to the farm is through coffee trees.

Just keep in mind if you walk that there are dirt bikes and trucks sometimes, and it can be quite dusty if it hasn't rained. If I were to do it again, I would rent a...