Coffee & cafés in Colombo
Colombo has 79 listed coffee shops and cafés, from quick espresso stops to slow weekend brunches. Most popular: Sandwiches (3), Beans to Take Home (2), Specialty Coffee (2). The coffee scene spans 47 Cafes & Coffee Shops, 29 Coffee Shops, 2 Roasteries. Dietary options are covered too: Vegetarian cafés (29), Vegan cafés (17), Halal cafés (2). 35 landmarks and neighbourhoods have their own nearby-coffee guides.
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Coffee scorecard
| Metric | Colombo | Sri Lanka median |
|---|---|---|
| Flagged as specialty in our listings | 30% of 79 venues | 29% (median of 52 cities) |
| Not part of a chain we track | 99% of 79 venues | 100% (median of 52 cities) |
| Median rating | 4.5 across 55 venues with 25+ ratings | 4.65 (median of 30 cities) |
| Open late (closing 22:00 or later) | 58% of 69 venues with listed hours | 47% (median of 52 cities) |
| Open on Sundays | 94% of 69 venues with Sunday hours listed | 94% (median of 52 cities) |
| Open all 7 days | 94% of 69 venues with listed hours | 88% (median of 52 cities) |
| Most-mentioned features | Matcha (3 venues) | — |
Computed from the cafés listed on WorldCafeMap; not a census of every café. Figures describe the cafés listed for Colombo on WorldCafeMap, not every café in the city. Country figures are the median across its cities with 20 or more listed cafés.
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Colombo Coffee Company
one Mall, 5th floor, Colombo, Sri Lanka
★ 5.0 (2)
Park'd by Coffee Patrol
261, Park'd by Coffee Patrol, 1 R. A. De Mel Mawatha, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 5.0 (1)
Radicle Specialty Coffee
Radicle Specialty Coffee, De Mel Building, Colombo 00100, Sri Lanka
★ 4.9 (1279)
Outdoor seating
The Beans Coffee Roastery
24 Old Moor St, Colombo 01200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.9 (623)
Damn Fine Coffee
9 Abdul Caffoor Mawatha, Colombo 00003, Sri Lanka
★ 4.9 (507)
Laptop friendly
Tea Avenue Daily Brew - Tri-Zen Apartments
no 294, Tea Avenue Daily Brew - Tri-Zen Apartments, 2 Union Pl, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.9 (229)
Kaffi Paradise Road
138 Galle Rd, Colombo 00003, Sri Lanka
★ 4.9 (55)
The Daily Leaf
14 Park St, Colombo 2, Sri Lanka
★ 4.9 (44)
Madras Coffee House - Sri Lanka
One Galle Face Mall, Lower Ground Floor Food Court, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.9 (23)
Nestle Lanka's Flagship Kiosk Cafe Goodness
30 Prof Stanley Wijesundera Mawatha, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka
★ 4.9 (7)
Grind
Access Towers 2, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.8 (3219)
Hazel Café & Cakery
20A Laurie’s Place, R. A. De Mel Mawatha, Colombo, Bambalapitiya 00400, Sri Lanka
★ 4.8 (526)
Laptop friendly
Nook Cafe@505
505, 2 Union Pl, Colombo 02000, Sri Lanka
★ 4.8 (491)
Kafenio Colombo
32 Hospital St, Colombo 00100, Sri Lanka
★ 4.8 (443)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Caroma Elite
★ 4.8 (324)
Outdoor seating
Barista Horton Place
Lanka IOC Fuel filling station, 75 Alexandra Pl, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka
★ 4.8 (134)
The Potio Bakery & Cafe
NDB - EDB Tower, 42 Nawam Mawatha, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.8 (96)
Cafe noir Kollupitiya
23 Alfred House Gardens, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 4.8 (56)
Wide Eyes Coffee - CCC
Mall, Wide Eyes Coffee - CCC, Colombo City Centre, 3rd Floor, 137 Sir James Pieris Mawatha, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka
★ 4.8 (31)
Outdoor seating
Caroma Elite Specialty coffee
30 Olcott Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka
★ 4.8 (13)
Verandah Garden Café
33rd lane, off Bagatalle Rd, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 4.8
JAVA Lounge
★ 4.7 (3068)
Outdoor seating
Brown Sugar
★ 4.7 (1171)
Outdoor seating
The Fort Café By Tasty Caterers
Australia Building, No: 54 York St, Colombo 00100, Sri Lanka
★ 4.7 (70)
Cafe Kumbuk
3/1 Thambiah Avenue, Independence Ave, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka
★ 4.6 (2508)
Outdoor seating
Ibson's Choice Cafe 2.0
57 W A D Ramanayake Mawatha, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.6 (533)
Outdoor seating
Barista Nawam Mawatha
48, Barista Nawam Mawatha, IBM Building, Nawam Mawatha, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.6 (388)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Fika Deli
50A Mutthaiah Road, Colombo
★ 4.6 (231)
Ibson's Brew Box
The Shoppes at City of Dreams, K03, Level 08, 15 Justice Akbar Mawatha, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.6 (23)
Ceylon Kahawa by Roseland
07 Rotunda Gardens, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 4.6 (19)
Divide Coffee & Matcha - Chatham Street
Chatham St, Colombo 00100, Sri Lanka
★ 4.6 (14)
Java Lounge - Bambalapitiya
No.25 & 29 Lauries Rd, Colombo 00400, Sri Lanka
★ 4.5 (2612)
Outdoor seating
The t-Lounge by Dilmah
62/2 Chatham Street, Colombo 01
★ 4.5 (1418)
Outdoor seating
Barefoot Garden Café
★ 4.5 (1220)
Outdoor seating
Coffee Stop
77 Galle Rd, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 4.5 (972)
Kiri Kōpi - Colombo
76/1 Flower Rd, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka
★ 4.5 (525)
Outdoor seating
Baguette French Bakery & Cafe
34 Queen's Rd, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 4.5 (515)
Laptop friendly
Artisan Diletto Caffè Colombo 07
143 Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka
★ 4.5 (148)
Chaiwala Colombo - One Galle Face Mall
L20, 1A, One Galle Face Mall, Centre Road, 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.5 (99)
The kava coffee
Hedges Ct, Colombo 01000, Sri Lanka
★ 4.5 (62)
Outdoor seating
Department of Coffee
★ 4.4 (942)
Outdoor seating
Brew 1867 by Dilmah – Flower Road
57/1 Sir Ernest de Silva Mawatha, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka
★ 4.4 (756)
Laptop friendly
Monkey Bean
★ 4.4 (698)
Outdoor seating
Coffee & Company
37/3 Pedris Rd, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 4.4 (697)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Barista Staple Street
33 Staple St, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.4 (586)
Outdoor seating
Kaffi Colombo
Crescat Boulevard, Kaffi Colombo, Crescat Boulevard no.89, 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 4.4 (332)
Outdoor seating
Barista Perahera Mawatha
WV84+3F3 Barista Perahera Mawatha, 181, 02 Sir James Peiris Road, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.4 (319)
The Commons Coffeehouse
39 A Flower Rd, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka
★ 4.3 (3654)
Outdoor seating
The Coffee Shop - Galadari Hotel
No. 64 Lotus Rd, Colombo 00100, Sri Lanka
★ 4.3 (822)
Barista World Trade Center
Level 3, Bank of Ceylon Mawatha, Colombo 00100, Sri Lanka
★ 4.3 (496)
Laptop friendly
Cafe Kai
2 Sir Chittampalam A Gardiner Mawath, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.3 (335)
Laptop friendly
Tito's Cafe
137 Sir James Pieris Mawatha, Colombo 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.3 (222)
Outdoor seating
A Healing Café - MaRadha Colombo
31, St Kilda's Lane, Marine Drive, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 4.3 (168)
Outdoor seating
The Nosh
World Trade Center East Tower, Bank of Ceylon Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka
★ 4.3 (137)
Laptop friendly
QuQu Cafe
Ground floor One, Mall 00200, Sri Lanka
★ 4.3 (126)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
My friend cafe
18 Bagatalle Rd, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 4.3 (114)
Outdoor seating
Cafe on the 5th
5th Lane, Colombo 7
★ 4.2 (3617)
Outdoor seating
Coco Veranda
67 Dr CWW Kannangara Mawatha, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka
★ 4.2 (1469)
Ceylon Stories - Gallery Cafe
9/6 A 16th Lane, Marine Drive, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 4.2 (1165)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Cafe 1959 by Raux Brothers
746 Galle Rd, Colombo 00400, Sri Lanka
★ 4.2 (425)
Outdoor seating
Cafe Shaze
36c Bagatalle Rd, Colombo 00300, Sri Lanka
★ 4.1 (616)
Outdoor seating
The Brown Bean
★ 4.1 (215)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
koffee kulture
★ 4.0 (52)
The Brick Lane Coffeehouse
338 T. B. Jayah Mawatha, Colombo 01000, Sri Lanka
★ 3.9 (57)
Laptop friendly
The Cricket Club Cafe
Flower Terrace
a&m cup cakes
Galle Road, Colombo 03
Barista
7 Station Road, Bambalapitiya
Outdoor seating
Barista Lavazza
Reid Avenue, Colombo 07
Bitcoin Cafe by Wheelys
261 R. A. De Mel Mawatha, Colombo
Bread Talk
523 Union Place, Colombo
Café 1959
Outdoor seating
Dinemore
Muttiah Road
Good Market
Healing cafe
31 St.Kildas Lane
Salaka
Testa Bake House
The brown bean
104 Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatha
Outdoor seating
Urban Green
10 Unity Place
Whight & Co Cafe
Coffee near landmarks
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Colombo coffee — FAQs
How many coffee shops are there in Colombo?
There are 79 coffee shops, cafés and roasteries listed in Colombo on WorldCafeMap, with addresses, opening hours, photos and ratings.
Where is the best coffee in Colombo?
Top-rated coffee shops in Colombo include The Cricket Club Cafe, Coco Veranda, Brown Sugar. See our ranked list of the best coffee shops in Colombo.
Are there coffee shops with outdoor seating in Colombo?
32 venues in Colombo have outdoor seating, terraces or gardens.