Eppendorf, Hamburg · Wednesday to Sunday
One farm. One cup. No hurry.
Eleven seats on Eppendorfer Landstraße, six single lots on the bar, and a kettle that is never in a rush.
What we do
We buy coffee by the tank, not the container.
Sixty-eight kilos here, ninety there — enough for one season on one bar and nothing more. Every lot is brewed to a recipe written for it, in a vessel chosen for it, and when it runs out we take it off the card rather than find something that resembles it.
Nothing is blended. Nothing is hurried. There is no wifi, and there is no takeaway cup.
Today on the bar
Six lots
Each one has a page of its own: the farm, the elevation it grew at, the month it was picked and the cup it is served in.
- Lot 01Corcovado GeishaFinca Corcovado · Boquete, Chiriquí, PanamaElevation 1,720 m above sea level · Harvest FebruaryRead the farm page
- Lot 02Las Nubes CatuaíFinca Las Nubes · Boquete, Chiriquí, PanamaElevation 1,450 m above sea level · Harvest JanuaryRead the farm page
- Lot 03Gori Gesha ForestChala Collection Site · Bench Maji, South West, EthiopiaElevation 2,050 m above sea level · Harvest DecemberRead the farm page
- Lot 04Santa Rosalía PacamaraFinca Santa Rosalía · Huehuetenango, Cuilco, GuatemalaElevation 1,880 m above sea level · Harvest MarchRead the farm page
- Lot 05La Cascada Pink BourbonFinca La Cascada · Huila, Pitalito, ColombiaElevation 1,900 m above sea level · Harvest MayRead the farm page
- Lot 06Kiambaa SL28Kiambaa Factory · Nyeri, Central Highlands, KenyaElevation 1,780 m above sea level · Harvest NovemberRead the farm page
The four minutes
A cup takes as long as it takes
0:00
Bloom
Forty grams of water at ninety-two degrees. The bed rises, holds, and settles. We wait for it.
0:45
First pour
A slow spiral from the centre outward and back again. The brass kettle holds temperature to within a degree.
1:40
Second pour
Water goes in only once the bed is nearly dry. The grounds are never stirred.
2:30
Third pour
The last hundred grams. The drawdown has begun before the pour is finished.
3:30
Served
Into the cup chosen for this lot, on the walnut, in the light. We tell you what it is; nothing is written down for you.
From the card
Four ways in
Geisha pour-over
€9,50Lot 01 · Finca Corcovado, Boquete, Panama. Fifteen grams, four minutes, one cup.
Coffee omakase, 5 courses
€42Two hours at the bar. Five cups chosen on the day and brewed in front of you, in five different vessels. Thursday to Saturday at 18:30, eleven seats, reservation required.
Cupping flight, 4 lots
€18Four bowls set down without being named, tasted at three temperatures each, roughly forty minutes. We tell you what they were at the end, not the beginning.
Espresso Panama Boquete
€4,80Lot 02 · Finca Las Nubes, Boquete, Panama. Eighteen grams in, thirty-eight out, twenty-eight seconds.
Behind the bar
„I would rather serve forty cups a day that I can account for than four hundred that I cannot.“
Mirjam spent nine years on the bar in Copenhagen and Oslo before opening Ora in a former bookbinder’s workshop on Eppendorfer Landstraße in 2019. She still buys every lot herself, roasts three kilos at a time on a Tuesday, and closes on Mondays.
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What people say
The omakase is the only tasting menu I have sat through where nobody talked down to me. Five cups, two hours, and a card at the end with every lot written on it.
Katharina B. · 3 weeks ago I came in for an espresso and left forty minutes later knowing the elevation of a hillside in Panama. No music, no laptops, very good coffee.
Jonas Freytag · 2 months ago Booked the cupping flight for my mother’s birthday. They set four bowls down without saying which was which and let us work it out. She has not stopped talking about it.
Anneke de Vries · 1 month ago The espresso is four euros eighty and worth it. The room is quiet in a way that almost nothing in Eppendorf is.
Til Marquardt · 5 weeks ago
Come in
Eppendorfer Landstraße 87
Four minutes from U Kellinghusenstraße, on the courtyard side of the building. There is no sign — look for the brass handle.