Photo by Semilla Cafe Coworking S.A.S.
Photos by Semilla Cafe Coworking S.A.S., Mara Simmons, Arijit Ganguly, Reginald Williams and dannybooboo via Google Maps.
Semilla is really two businesses stacked on top of each other. Downstairs is a proper café — an espresso bar with a working kitchen behind it. Upstairs is a full coworking floor, with private offices, hot desks and enclosed call booths.
That vertical arrangement is what makes the place work. You can come in for a coffee and end up staying for a working day, or book a desk upstairs and treat the espresso bar below as your kitchen. Either way, both halves are real: the café isn't a token counter bolted onto an office, and the coworking floor isn't three tables and a router.
It has also become the default meeting point for the neighbourhood's digital nomad crowd, which makes it the most reliable place in Laureles to run into other remote workers. Worth knowing what that means in practice: Semilla is sociable rather than silent. If you want a room where nobody speaks, this isn't it. If you want to actually meet the people you keep seeing in the same Slack channels, it is.
The entrance is wheelchair-accessible.
Azul Café is a newer café near the Segundo Parque in Laureles that sources all of its coffee from Jardín, with long booth benches, an outlet at nearly every table and street-side seats.
Café Namazzi is a pet-friendly Laureles café built for people who want to sit and work for a few hours — wide tables, natural light and stable wifi, with artisanal Colombian coffee, brunch and fresh pastry.
El Laboratorio de Café is a Medellín roaster with its own roasting plant in Guayabal, and its branch on the Laureles boulevard is built for people who want the origin, method and extraction behind the cup explained to them.
Worth a visit? What's good nearby, and how do you get there? Kathe answers from this verified local catalog, not the open internet.
They'll see who you are and what you need, not a cold "hola".