Our Top 5 Coffee Places in Valletta
Valletta specialty coffee places combine green plants and design
We usually have our weekend coffees in Valletta. Sometimes we just stay for a quick coffee, sometimes we open up our laptop and stay two hours. These are our favourite places.
| Café | Key Highlights |
|---|---|
| Coffee Circus Lisboa | Seating in basement In-house roasting • V60 pour-overs • Pastel de nata • Chit chat with barristas |
| Kir Royal Café | Eroded limestone house Stuffed croissants • Iced peanut butter 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 | Sloped street with self-service In-house roasting • Stylish interior minimalist design |
Coffee Circus Lisboa
Artistic glass doors at Coffee Circus Lisboa entrance
Cupboard filled with pastel de nata and brigadeiros
Coffee Circus Lisboa (St Nicholas Street) is located on one of the steep alleys leading to the Grand Harbour. Their outside seating is on the pavement, below parasols. Inside you’ll be sitting in a small basement space. Great to cool down when it gets very hot outside in the summer.
The Coffee Circus community is known for roasting their own coffee. You will find their coffee bags displayed inside the basement.
Aside from regular coffee variations, they also serve V60 pour-overs if you want a specialty brew.
Handwritten chalkboard menu
Authentic Portuguese tiles and framed 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!
And as the name implies, Coffee Circus Lisboa offers different Portguese 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 (Melita 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 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
The coffees come with oat and almond milk if you ask for it. And they have a couple of specialty drinks like iced peanut butter lattes, espresso tonics or mint mochas!
Kir Royal Café is known for their stuffed croissants filled with chocolate or pistachio cream.
Sunday in Scotland
Classy interior at Sunday in Scotland
Sunday in Scotland (St Paul Street) is located on a steep alley leading to the Grand Harbour. You can sit outside at the red tables that stand on podiums and watch the people who pass by.
I usually sit inside and enjoy these Southern France vibes. I love their tiles, the classy furniture and travel books.
It is a good 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 concept around high-quality, additive-free chocolate. So you can expect 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. You can have your coffee with their homemade dark chocolate or a raspberry cake. 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 (Merchants Street) is located on a quiet side street a few metres from the Valletta Food Market and close to St. John’s Co-Cathedral. 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 are famous for their pistachio creations. E.g. pistachio latte or the pistachio hot chocolate.
In their cake counter you will 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 just next to the food market. They are known for their own roasting (Mondays on Tuesdays) and you’ll see all their coffee bags displayed inside.
The seats are mostly outdoors, so you'll be sitting slightly at an angle on the pavement. In summer they put up parasols.
They operate on a self-service system where you walk inside the small, air-conditioned counter area to order your coffee at the bar.
I usually order a flat white and love the chocolate and nutty tones. If you’re lactose intolerant, their coffees come with “Oatly” milk.
Specialty coffee beans
Cofee 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.
Have you already read our blog about “Our Top 5 Coffee Places in the Three Cities”?
And do you know how to get there from Valletta? Read our blog “Ferry or Dgħajsa?”
Author: Bjorn
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