Find Exceptional Coffee. Discover the World Behind It.
Explore state-by-state coffee maps that open Google Maps lists of personally selected cafés, alongside original stories from coffee regions around the world.
Select a highlighted state to open its coffee map. Every café recommendation is based on a personal visit.
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Not Every Café Makes the Cut
This isn’t a directory of every café I visit. It’s a carefully curated collection of places serving exceptional coffee, worth a detour and a return visit.
In Las Vegas, I visited dozens of cafés. Only five made the map.
I look for quality beans, well-extracted espresso, silky microfoam, and thoughtful ratios. Whether a drink is made with milk or water, every element should reveal the character of the coffee, not bury it. Skilled baristas and consistent preparation matter, too.
Exceptional coffee. Skilled hands. Cafés I’d gladly revisit.
Remote Cappuccino is for people who know great coffee and anyone curious to discover it.
Beyond the Cappuccino
Coffee is only part of the story.
Hyenas sleep in the shade of coffee trees in Ethiopia. In Guatemala, volcanic ash helps create rich soil for coffee farms. Around the world, I document firsthand the remarkable connections between coffee, wildlife, people, and place.
Black kites perched on a powerline within the walls of Harar, Ethiopia.
The Coffee Belt
Experience Coffee at Its Source
Visit the farms, meet the growers, and discover the landscapes that shape some of the world's most sought-after coffee varieities.
A Guatemalan coffee farmer examines ripe red cherries on a leafy coffee branch.
Guatemala Coffee Farm Experience
Leave the café behind and follow coffee to its source in the Guatemalan highlands.
Spend a day with coffee grower Erwin and his family. Visit the areas where he cultivates coffee, walk among the trees, harvest ripe cherries in season, learn how the fruit becomes coffee, and taste it where it was grown.
Travelers seeking a deeper experience may also inquire about a homestay, with a private guest room in Erwin’s family home. Homestays are considered individually and require additional screening and family approval.
Developed in partnership with coffee grower Erwin and his family.
Meet the Remote Cappuccino Founder
I’m Elizabeth Hingle, though most people call me Lizzy. I’m a wildlife biologist, writer, and photographer exploring the connections among specialty coffee, wild places, and the people who know them best.
Remote Cappuccino publishes immersive field stories and thoughtfully tested café recommendations for travelers who care about exceptional coffee and the places behind it. Every recommendation is based on somewhere I have personally visited.
I’m developing coffee-farm visits for travelers who want a deeper understanding of where coffee comes from.
I create commissioned editorial stories and original photography for coffee, travel, and conservation organizations that value honest, place-based storytelling.
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