Naturalia Café

Naturalia Café sits off the southern end of La 70 — the stretch of Laureles most people know for its bars — and takes that address in a quieter, healthier direction. It is a café first, with a kitchen that leans towards food you actually feel good about eating, and an evening programme that turns it into something closer to a small cultural venue.

The menu pairs coffee with salads, sandwiches, artisanal pizzas and homemade baking, with wine and craft beer alongside. Vegetarian eaters have real options here, which is not a given in Laureles — a neighbourhood where lunch still tends to arrive with meat on it by default.

The wifi is the other reason people come. Remote workers rate Naturalia for its internet, and it is reportedly the fastest of any café in Laureles — measured faster, in fact, than most of the local coworking spaces. If you have ever spent an afternoon watching a video call stutter in an otherwise lovely café, that is a specific and useful thing to know.

Evenings bring a genuine cultural calendar rather than the token weekly event a lot of places advertise: film screenings, language exchanges, and beer and wine tastings. It makes Naturalia one of the few cafés in the area you can plausibly use for a laptop day and then come back to at night for something else entirely.