About
Hey,
I'm Sanzhar, born and raised in Almaty. For the past 12–15 years I've been drinking and brewing coffee, averaging two or three cups a day.
Among my friends I'm the go-to person for recommendations about good coffee, breakfast and food places.
Lately Almaty has started to attract visitors from around the world, so this project is my way of sharing some of that with you. We are properly into third-wave coffee here, and I don't want anyone leaving my hometown disappointed by the cup they drank in it.
Taste is subjective, obviously. But I don't go back to low-quality places, so what you see here are the ones I return to most often, with a few practical notes about each — whether it's laptop-friendly, that sort of thing.
Enjoy your visit to Almaty, and your future cups.
How this stays honest
A cafe can pay to be here, or give me something, or make something together with me. I am not going to promise you otherwise.
What I do promise is that you will be told where you are standing. Any such relationship — including simply knowing the owner — is said in the text about that place, next to the praise, in the same size type. Never in fine print, and never only on a page like this one. If it is not written there, it does not exist.
Corrections
Prices move, staff change, good places have bad weeks. If something here is out of date, tell me and I will go back and check it myself.
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