ALRIGHTY Roastery & Coffee Shop

📍 Werksviertel | 🔴 Destination | ☕️ All-round | 👨‍🌾 In-house roastery | 🎓 Educational | 🌱 Responsible sourcing

Three drum roasters, a café, and a back-of-house large enough to host a national cupping semi-final, all in one 500-square-metre hall at the edge of the Werksviertel.

Visit if:

• You like specialty coffee that leans chocolate and caramel rather than berry-and-citrus, and want a house blend (or a decaf) you can drink black.

• You want to watch the roasters work and ask the bar staff what is in the hopper.

• You're rolling in as a group after a Werksviertel walk or a cycling tour, or want a long laptop session with outlets nearby.

Skip if:

• You want a quiet workspace: when the roasters run, the hall carries the sound.

• You need fast counter service at peak; pickup can get confused.

• You're carrying only cash.

Address: Speicherstraße 28, Werk 13, 81671 München · Google Maps · Apple Maps

Area: Werksviertel-Mitte, behind Ostbahnhof (S1–S8, U5). Getting there: Ostbahnhof, then a seven-minute walk through the quarter; paid parking garages nearby. Hours: Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00 · Sat/Sun/holidays 09:00–18:00. Seating: ca. 60, bar plus two- and four-tops, reading corner, seasonal terrace, walk-in only. Wifi: Yes (care4coffee Gast), outlets along the window wall. Dogs: Welcomed. Food: French-laminated croissants, cakes (incl. vegan carrot, lemon loaf), savoury sandwiches (kimchi-avocado-tofu, alpine-malt sourdough), chia puddings, overnight oats. Alt milk: Oat (Oatly, no surcharge). Payment: Card only.

Order this: Start with the cortado from the Easy Espresso house blend, a 75/25 Arabica-to-Robusta ratio, then ask for whichever single-origin Arabica is mounted in the second grinder that day. The blend's chocolate body gives you a reference point against which the fruit of the Arabica reads cleanly, instead of arriving as a shock. If you want filter, come at a quiet hour and ask for the Colombian Geisha V60.

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The glass façade with white ALRIGHTY caretrade coffee lettering only appears once you start suspecting you've walked too far. Through the concrete-framed doors, a 500-square-metre hall opens up. Three dark-green Giesen drum roasters sit at the back, in full view from the bar. They are electric rather than the more common gas-fired drums, running on green electricity per the company's published practice.

Three Mahlkönig grinders run side by side, loaded with the Easy Espresso house blend, a rotating single-origin Arabica, and the decaf. The Easy Espresso is a 75/25 Arabica-to-Robusta ratio, a deliberate stylistic choice that explains the chocolate body and low acidity rather than a corner cut. The retail shelf carries the Santa Teresa filter roast from Huila, Colombia, labelled banana, orange, rum, with the roast date printed on the bottom of every bag, a practice still uncommon in Munich retail. Every Alrighty bean comes from farmers who are young, female, or African, at prices the company states are significantly above market.

The cortado from Easy Espresso arrived with clean caramel up front, integrated steamed milk, and no fight between acidity and sweetness. It is the kind of cup that wins over drinkers who find most third-wave espressos too acidic. On a later visit the cappuccino ran on a Costa Rica Arabica: red berries, brighter acidity, too loud on the first sip, the main voice by the second.

On a Sunday morning the back of the hall held the German semi-final of a cupping competition: branded tables in an L-shape, badged competitors moving nose-first across the samples. Home-barista courses and roastery tours run year-round through the bookings page.

Depth over convenience. A hall on the edge of the district where roasting, serving, and competition share the same room.