About Cafendo

Cafendo is a catalog of specialty coffee from independent roasters. We don’t sell coffee ourselves: most coffees link to a shop that sells them, usually the roaster’s own.

Who is behind Cafendo

What we mean by specialty

When we say specialty, we mean what the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) means: coffee that scores 80 points or more out of 100 when it is cupped. Cafendo does not score the coffees in the catalog: where a roaster publishes a score, it is the roaster’s.

Commercial brands

Some big supermarket brands, such as Nescafé, Lavazza and Starbucks, are in the catalog too, so you can compare. They carry the label “Commercial brand”, come after the independent roasters in our standard order and are not shown on the home page.

How the lists are ordered

Unless you pick another order, category and search lists follow your “Ship to” country: first coffees from roasters based there, then from roasters whose shop says it delivers there (by name or to the whole world), then from roasters whose delivery we don’t know, and last from those whose shop lists only other countries. Within each group, the coffees we feature come first, then the most reviewed ones and those with photos, newest first. Until you choose a country, we use the one you are visiting from; when we can’t tell, or don’t list it, German pages use Germany, Romanian pages Romania and English pages the United States. In this order, commercial brands come last.

Prices

Prices come from the roasters’ catalogs and can be out of date. The shop’s own page always has the current price.

How we check reviews

Reviews come from people with a Cafendo account. We read each one before it appears and leave out those that break the rules, such as advertising or reviews from the roaster itself. We don’t sell coffee, so we can’t check that the writer bought it. The reviews on roaster pages were written on the old Cafendo shop; we show them as they were.

Who pays for what

Nobody pays for a place in our lists or for a rating. Some Buy buttons are affiliate links, mostly to Amazon: if you buy there, Cafendo may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. Those buttons say so.