Independent coffee & cake in Bordeaux

Bordeaux has 13 independent coffee and cake spots on Crumb & Crema, spread across the Saint-Pierre quarter, the Chartrons antiques district and the streets south of the Garonne. Seven of the thirteen listed places roast their own beans: L'Alchimiste, the city's first specialty roaster, opened in 2014 and now roasts at its Darwin eco-site on the Quai des Queyries; Café Piha, founded in 2017 by Pierre Guérin after training as a barista in Auckland, is also the exclusive French distributor of Probat roasters and won multiple Global Coffee Awards medals in 2025; La Pelle, in the Chartrons district, opened in 2016 under Carlos Pereira, who grew up around coffee farms in Brazil and trained in Turin; Books & Coffee on Rue Saint-James installed its own roaster in 2017; Café Gusco in Meriadeck has been a micro-roastery since 2017; VerdeNero on Rue des Ayres has been roasting since 2012; and Oven Heaven, the family roastery founded in 2018 by brothers Kévin and Dimitri Grodwohl, supplies its consumer bar Goûtu on Cours de la Marne.

Black List Café opened on Place Pey Berland in 2014, a few months ahead of L'Alchimiste, as the first specialty coffee bar in the city; its founder Laurent Pierre came from ten years as a wine cellar master. Moko Coffee, opened in July 2024 by Thomas Labroue after years at KB Coffee Roasters in Paris, was named best coffee shop in France at the Paris Coffee Show in September 2026. Every place listed is independently owned; chains, hotel cafes and tourist traps are excluded.