The rise of luxury coffee in India

From filter coffee to moka pots, India's coffee wave has been nothing short of revolutionary in the last decade.

The changing perception of coffee

For a new generation, coffee isn’t just an errand, it’s a marker of taste and a quiet signal of identity. These six brands that encapsulate that.

Araku Coffee

This brand of Indian coffee has origins in the Eastern Ghats of India, where coffee has been grown since the early 1900s, nurtured by its Adivasi communities.

Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters

This brand mirrors India’s coffee education curve: From a simple toast from Taiwan in 2013, to become a nationwide network of cafes, subscriptions, and sourcing partnership networks spanning more than 80 farms across India.

Maverick & Farmer

This brand's approach to making coffee centres around fermentation, precision roasting, working with beans sourced from a 140-acre estate in Pollibetta.

Nandan Coffee

Sourced from their own Kodaikanal-based estate, this brand has moved from grower-roaster to a consumer-facing presence across cities, while using solar-powered roasting to reinforce their ecological philosophy.

Subko

What began as a roastery in Mumbai, this coffee brand is now a multidisciplinary craft engine with bread, chocolate, and an expanded research arm through Subko Cacao.

Pour Over Coffee Roasters

This coffee blends regional storytelling with global flavour memory, with beans from Chikmagalur, the Western Ghats, and the North East, besides international ones, all roasted in-house.