El Laboratorio de Café is a Medellín roaster that runs its own roasting plant in Guayabal and pours the results across several locations around the city. This is the branch on the Laureles boulevard.
The name is not decoration. The bar here is set up for conversation about what you are actually drinking — where the beans came from, which method is being used to brew them, what is happening during extraction. Brewing is treated as an experiment worth explaining, and that makes this a good stop if you want to learn something rather than just caffeinate.
If a cup convinces you, bags of roasted beans are sold at the counter.
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