Kopi Mane Inspiration - Ruteng — Restaurant in East Nusa Tenggara

Flores is an island famous for its coffee. There are some of high-land dominated regencies where coffee grown very fertile. Here, coffee has been cultivated in wide areas of plantation and become their main source of economy. Almost all of the high-grade coffee beans were exported to fulfill both national and global market. The local market was always only able to got the low-grade ones to enjoy. Thanks to the Filosofi Kopi a series films first aired in 2015 which has successed in raising the awareness of many Indonesia coffee regions to further glorify and appreciate their coffee. Each of the coffee regions has build their own ecosystem involving the upstream-side and the downstream-side of the coffee trades to be inlined together and developing their local market competitively. While the upstream-side usually consist of coffee farmers and coffee processors, the downstream-side consist of coffee roasters and coffee shops with each of their own baristas and coffee products.

Here is Kopi Mane, the example of one of the coffee shop pioneers in Flores who struggle for the Manggarainese hopes & dreams of living through their proud of authentic Manggarai coffee. This coffee shop established 2015 in Ruteng the capital city of Manggarai Regency. It was named after Manggaraian habits which routinely drinking coffee to relax afterwork in the afternoon. For almost 10 years, this coffee shop has been continously developing their coffee business' ecosystem while preserving the value of coffee passed down by Manggaraian ancestors from generation to generation. Managing of both upstream and downstream-side of their coffee business, Kopi Mane see that every drip of coffee served in their shop is a balanced-worth to satisfy their coffee producers as well as their coffee customers. Various coffee are available from different Manggaraian regions, different type of coffee-beans including Arabica, Robusta, Blended, Yellow Catura, Juria, different process of coffee-making including traditionally processed black coffee, Italian processed coffee such as espresso, americano, long black, V60, Italian milk-based processed coffee such as latte,...

When I first visited Kopi Mane back in June 2015, Pak Bony just opened this concept cafe a few months ago. He just retired from his job in Jakarta, came back to his home town and got the idea to boost the coffee business in this area. He also picked up my suggestion to buy some motor bikes for rent. Because at this time there was non allover Ruteng. He borrowed me the bike from his brother. Nowadays it is a busy place. Locals and travellers alike frequenting this still cozy place in the heart of Ruteng. Now he has five bikes for rent. The youngest daughter came back from Jakarta to help. He even opened a branch in Labuanbajo, which is run by his other daughter. His concept is genius and it seems to work quite fine. I just hope for him and his lovely wife, that their kids will pick up his enthusiasm for this business soon. I will be definitely...

Kopi Mane is a recommended place to drink coffee. The place is very strategic because it is close to the crowd so it is very easy for visitors to come to this place. For coffee lovers, you should visit this place, because in this cafe there are several types of coffee provided for visitors, so that visitors can choose coffee according to their respective tastes. Kopi Mane cafe is very famous in the city of Ruteng, because the taste of coffee is very appetizing so that it makes this...