Our Top 5 Coffee Places in Valletta

Valletta’s Cafés combine specialty coffee with design

We usually have our weekend coffees in Valletta. Sometimes we open up our laptop and stay two hours, sometimes we just have a quick coffee. These are our favourite places.

Café	Key Highlights
Coffee Circus Lisboa	Seating in cellar In-house roasting • Chit chat with barristas • Backpacker vibes • V60 • Pastel de nata
Kir Royal Café	Eroded limestone house Passion fruit espresso tonic • Tiramisu iced latte • Off the high street
Sunday in Scotland	French-style elegance Weekday laptops • Good AC • Additive-free chocolate • €6 cappuccino & croissant combo
De Bono Coffee Shop	Tiny vegan-friendly kiosk Pistachio coffee • Daily cheesecakes • Outdoor seating only
Lot61 Coffee Roasters	Stylish interior minimalist design In-house roasting • Seating on sloped street • Self-service

Coffee Circus Lisboa

Creative art welcoming you to the cellar

Pastel de nata sells out first

Coffee Circus Lisboa (Triq San Gwann) is located on the alley that takes you down to the Three Cities and Gozo ferries.

Their outside seating is on the pavement, below parasols. Inside you’ll be sitting in a rustic but beautiful cellar. Which I love in summer to cool down properly.

The Coffee Circus community is known for roasting their own coffee locally. Aside from regular coffee variations, they also serve V60 pour-overs, Chemex and AeroPress.

Handwritten chalkboard menu

Authentic Portuguese tiles and prints

I like chatting with the staff whenever it isn’t busy. Their barristas are from Colombia and Portugal. You will notice by the music they play — from Cumbia to Bossa Nova and Manu Chao. I always feel like this is the coffee place for the backpackers and hippies.

And as the name implies, Coffee Circus Lisboa offers different Portuguese pastries. E.g. pastel de nata and brigadeiros. The owner is Portuguese and manages the popular Coffee Circus Porto branch in Msida, too.

Kir Royal Cafe

Kir Royal Café is located in a historic limestone building

Kir Royal Café (St Paul Street) is located on an iconic street leading down from Pjazza Kastilja. It is a small, cozy cafe set inside an eroded old limestone building.

Outside you can take a seat on their tiny bench or the yellow (not so comfy) bar stools. The inside areas are split up into the barrista area and the customer area. You get your coffee at the bar and then walk out of the building to re-enter again.

Doors are kept open, so in summer you won’t be able to take a break in the cold unfortunately.

Entrance to Kir Royal Café

Coffee prices

Seating area

We usually go here in summer and have one of their specialty drinks like tiramisu iced latte or passion fruit espresso tonic! You can combine it with a stuffed croissant filled with chocolate or pistachio cream.

Sunday in Scotland

Classy interior at Sunday in Scotland

Sunday in Scotland (St Lucia’s Street) is located on Valletta’s most lively alley. Next to a couple bars and the famous restaurant San Paolo Naufrago.

You can either sit outside where they have built little podiums since the alley is steep.

Or you sit inside and enjoy these Southern France vibes. I’m usually inside. I love their tiles, the classy furniture and travel books.

And it’s the best place to open up your laptop and work for some time (only allowed during weekdays though). They have great AC if you need a break in summer.

Golden entrance into Sunday in Scotland

Drinks menu

Food menu

The Beirut-born founder Amer Wahoud built the entire concept around high-quality, additive-free chocolate. So you will find a great variety of different flavours here.

Boxes and bags are recyclable and regular customers are asked to bring their own boxes. Very different to many other places on the island who mass produce plastic (mostly to avoid dish-washing costs).

The menu is great and includes proper brunch options. Though my favourite is the “cappucino and almond croissant combo” for €6.

De Bono Coffee Shop

Storefront of De Bono Coffee Shop

De Bono Coffee Shop (Old Theatre Street) is only a few metres away from the Valletta Food Market. The shop itself is tiny. Just a small kiosk with a fridge and all the seating is outside on the pavement opposite the shop.

The place is run by a local family and even though it looks very simple from the outside, they got one of the greatest vegan options among all the coffee places.

Pistachio paradise

Fancy coffees at De Bono Coffee Shop

You can order your coffee with almond or soy milk and they’re famous for their pistachio creations. E.g. pistachio latte or the pistachio hot chocolate.

In their cake counter you’ll find a daily changing selection of vegan and regular desserts like vanilla cheesecake, banoffee cake or the vegan pistachio cheesecake.

Lot61 Coffee Roasters

Espresso machine and barrista workspace at Lot16 Coffee Roasters

Lot61 Coffee Roasters (Old Theatre Street) is located on a steep, sloped street (next to the Valletta Food Market, too). Like Coffee Circus, they do their own roasting (on Mondays on Tuesdays).

The seats are mostly outdoors, so you'll be sitting slightly at an angle on the pavement. In summer they put up parasols.

Lot61 operates on a self-service system where you walk inside the small, air-conditioned counter area to order your coffee at the bar.

Specialty coffee beans

Coffee flavour spectrum

Fresh muffins and cakes

If you want the extraordinary, try the iced matcha with strawberry syrup with oat milk.

We usually have a snack here, too. Either a slice of fresh lemon cake or banana bread or one of these little (expensive ;-)) coconut balls.

The only thing that Lot61 is missing: I love chit-chatting with barristas. It is a little hard here since the inside area is tiny and you are blocking new customers from entering the coffee place.

Author: Bjorn

Have you already read our blog about “Our Top 5 Coffee Places in the Three Cities”?

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