Cognoscenti Coffee Roasters
Curator’s note
This address is the plant, where Lim has roasted under this name since 2010: ten house-roasted bags and nothing borrowed, several of them microlots from named producers like Diego Bermudez and Nestor Lasso, with mill, elevation, varietals and drying method printed on the product pages. A roastery that prints the wet mill on the bag has already said where its attention goes.
Market price, it moves with whatever is on the bar.
The coffee
Ten house-roasted bags and zero outside roasters, heavy on named-producer Colombian microlots, with origin detail on the product pages running down to the wet mill, elevation and varietals, though roast dates are not published.
- Colombia 88+ Caturra Chiroso Nestor Lasso
- Caturra Chiroso
- Anaerobic Natural
- El Diviso
Strawberry · basil · punchy acidity
- Colombia Red Bourdon El Diviso
- Red Bourbon
- Anaerobic Natural
- El Diviso
Cherry · banana · hard candy · raw honey · sweet and balanced
- Diego Bermudez Maragogype Koji
- Maragogype
- Anaerobic Natural
- El Paraíso
Soy sauce · spice · sweet chocolate · green apple · umami · passionfruit · pineapple · boozy
- Papua New Guinea Arufa Natural
- Blue Mountain, Arusha, Mundo Novo, Bourbon
- Full Natural
- Monpi Coffee / Kindeng Wet Mill
raspberry · vanilla · toasted sesame · brown sugar
- Peru Eli Espinoza Soberon
- Caturra
- Natural
- San Ignacio
Passion fruit · champagne acidity · green grape
- Costa Rica Los Duran Black Honey
- H17
- Black Honey
- Los Duran Family
fruit cake · raisins · warming spices · brown sugar
- Guji Habtamu Goro
- Regional landraces and heirloom cultivars
- Washed
- Habtamu Fekadu Aga
Blackberry · strawberry · juicy apricot · floral orange · peach tea · electric acidity
- Colombia Double Anaerobic Mossto then washed - Nestor Lasso
- Caturra Estate
- Double Anaerobic Mossto then Washed
- El Diviso
Jasmine · Lychee · Honeysuckle · Mandarin Orange
- It's a Hoot Blend
toffee · graham cracker · orange · date
- Decaf
- Ethyl acetate decaffeination
pleasantly sugary flavor
The room
The cafe doubles as the company's roastery, set inside City Market South, eight historic produce warehouses converted into creative offices and retail. Yeekai Lim founded the whole thing as a working architect and principal of miL Studio, so coffee here has always been adjacent to a drafting table.
The vibe
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People
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