Specialty Roastery & Café — Quezon City

Slow brews. Tagalog soul.

We roast Philippine single-origin coffee in small, deliberate batches — from the cool slopes of Benguet to the rice terraces of Sagada — and brew it slowly, the way good stories are told.

See the Menu Our Story

Chapter One — The Origin

A tala is a star — the kind farmers read before sunrise.

Kape Tala began in 2021 with a secondhand 1-kilo roaster, a borrowed garage in Teachers Village, and a stubborn belief: Philippine coffee deserves to be treated like the world-class crop it is. Our founders, siblings Luna and Rafael Dimaano, grew up watching their lola brew kapeng barako in a blackened tin pot every 4 AM.

Today we work directly with eleven smallholder farms across Benguet, Sagada, and Bukidnon — paying above fair-trade rates, cupping every harvest, and roasting no more than 20 kilos at a time. No blends that hide the farm. No darkness that hides the bean. Just honest coffee, named after the people and mountains that grew it.

Partner farms

20kg

Max roast batch

₱18+

Above farmgate / kg

Roasting beans at the Kape Tala roastery

The Daily Card

Printed fresh,
priced honest.

Espresso Bar

№ 01

Pulled on our two-group lever machine. House espresso: Benguet + Bukidnon.

Espresso ₱120

doble, muscovado-sweet finish
Cortado ₱150

equal parts, served in glass
Spanish Latte ₱170

condensada, dense and warm
Tablea Mocha ₱185

Batangas cacao, sea salt
Muscovado Cold Brew ₱165

18-hour steep, over ice

Manual Brews

№ 02

Single origins, weighed and timed at the slow bar. Ask what is freshly roasted.

Benguet — Atok Arabica ₱190

V60 · dried mango, dark chocolate
Sagada — Heirloom Typica ₱210

Kalita · red berries, brown butter
Mt. Apo — Honey Process ₱320

Chemex for two · honeycomb, pomelo
Flash Brew Tonic ₱195

iced, calamansi peel
Kapeng Barako, Lola-Style ₱110

tin pot, no apologies

Mga Tinapay & Matamis

№ 03

Baked every morning in-house. Sold out means see you tomorrow.

Pandesal & Kesong Puti ₱95

warm, with burnt honey butter
Ube Basque Cheesecake ₱180

a Maginhawa legend by now
Calamansi Olive Oil Cake ₱160

bright, barely sweet
Banana Bread ₱140

latundan, toasted coconut
Suman & Tsokolate Dip ₱150

for sharing, allegedly

All prices VAT-inclusive · Oat milk +₱40 · Decaf available on manual brews · Walang masamang tanong sa slow bar.

Take the Mountain Home

Beans & paninda.

Roasted every Tuesday and Friday. Drag the shelf — or just come smell it in person. Nationwide shipping via courier, Metro Manila same-day.

House Favorite ₱520

Benguet

Atok Arabica

Washed · 1,600 masl · 250g whole bean

Muscovado, dried mango, dark chocolate

Limited Harvest ₱560

Sagada

Heirloom Typica

Natural · 1,500 masl · 250g whole bean

Red berries, tablea, brown butter

₱540

Mt. Apo

Sibulan Honey

Honey · 1,300 masl · 250g whole bean

Honeycomb, pomelo, soft florals

₱460

Bukidnon

Kalatungan Blend Base

Washed · 1,200 masl · 250g whole bean

Toasted rice, caramel, round body

Back in Stock ₱450

Merch

Tala Diner Mug

Stoneware · 10 oz · each

Cream glaze, ember star stamp

₱790

Merch

"Slow Brews" Tee

Heavy cotton · QC-printed · each

Espresso brown, sizes S–3XL

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Tara, Kape Tayo

Find us on Maginhawa.

A short walk from UP Diliman, between the plant shop and the vinyl bar. Look for the cream awning and the spinning star. Seats are first-come — the slow bar is worth the wait.

Address

88 Maginhawa Street, Teachers Village East,
Diliman, Quezon City 1101

Call / Viber

+63 917 845 2210

hello@kapetala.ph

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