California cafe serves up ‘world’s priciest’ coffee at US$75 a cup – and it’s ‘shockingly good’
- Southern California-based Klatch Coffee Roasters has been roasting the rare variety Elida Geisha 803 coffee beans from Panama
- Coffee has a floral, tea-like flavour with hints of jasmine and berries
A California cafe is brewing up what it calls the world’s most expensive coffee – at US$75 a cup.
Klatch Coffee Roasters is serving the exclusive brew, the Elida Natural Geisha 803, at its branches in Southern California and San Francisco.
The 803 in the coffee’s name refers to the record-breaking price per kilo paid for the organic beans at a speciality coffee auction in Panama, where the limited supply set off a bidding war that determined their astronomical price, said Bo Thiara, co-owner of the Klatch cafe in San Francisco.
Only 45kg (100 pounds) of the beans were available for purchase, and most went to Japan, China and Taiwan, according to the Klatch website that says it secured 4.5kg and is the only chain in North America to have it.
It describes the coffee as a rare variety of Arabica from Panama that has a floral, tea-like flavour with hints of jasmine and berries.