Cucurucho and Company

What Cucurucho and Company is

Cucurucho and Company is a roastery and coffee bar at Río Tigris 27 in Colonia Cuauhtémoc, a few streets north of Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. It opened in November 2025, and it is not really a café in the sense of a place to sit with a laptop. It is a working roastery with a bar attached, and the whole point is what is in the taps.

Six Mexican coffees are poured from taps behind the counter, which is unusual in the city. You pick one and have it hot or cold, black or with lactose-free milk. Because the six rotate and include varieties that taste very unlike a standard blend, geisha and pink geisha among those on tap over the last year, the expected way to order is to ask the barista for a small tasting first and then choose.

The company describes the space as a casa de cultura del café, a coffee culture house, and it behaves like one. There is a roasting floor you can see into, a tasting laboratory, a showroom of bar equipment sold to restaurants and hotels, and a room above the roasters used for DJ sessions and visiting barista takeovers.

Who is behind it

David Birruete Cano runs it. He is a barista, roaster and Q-grader, the certification for professional coffee graders, and one of the more recognisable names in the current wave of Mexican specialty coffee. His family’s coffee history goes back to 1977, when his grandfather opened a café called La Confianza, and he has spent more than fifteen years working between Mexico and Japan, which shows in how precisely the bar is set up.

The kit is a large part of the story. Two German Probat roasters and a Korean roaster assisted by an AI system handle the roasting. The bar carries what sources describe as the only La Marzocco Leva in Mexico, a lever machine from the Florentine maker that has been building espresso machines since 1927. The interior was built with the architecture collective XPAN, whose twelve-armed steel sculpture threads through the space.

All the coffee is Mexican. The group sources from Chiapas, Oaxaca and Veracruz.

How the coffee works

• Six taps. Six freshly roasted Mexican coffees, poured rather than brewed to order. Served hot or cold.
• Taste before choosing. Ask for a small tasting. The baristas expect it and the differences between the taps are large.
• Espresso is still there. If you want a proper espresso or cappuccino, the lever machine on the bar does that.
• Milk. Lactose-free cow’s milk only, at least when I filmed.
• Food. A small counter of donuts, and the popular flavours sell out early.
• Beans. Every variety on the bar is sold as whole beans to take home.

What I had

I went in September 2026 and tasted across the taps before choosing, which took a couple of minutes and was the most useful part of the visit. The donuts were the surprise: better than the coffee-shop average and the reason a steady stream of people were coming in and leaving straight away.

There is almost nowhere to sit. Two tiny benches outside, and that is it, so this is a stop rather than a session.

What it costs

Cucurucho and Company does not publish a price list, so this is what I saw in September 2026 alongside the range specialty bars in Colonia Cuauhtémoc charge. Prices move.

Item	Price
Donut	around 49 MXN, about 2.50 USD
Coffee from the taps	specialty-bar pricing, roughly 60 to 120 MXN depending on the variety
Espresso from the lever machine	same range
Whole beans, 250 g	premium, well above supermarket prices, single-lot varieties highest

The beans are the item to think about. Geisha and similar lots are expensive everywhere in the world, and Cucurucho prices them accordingly. If you want to take something home, ask which lot is best value on the day rather than buying by name.

How to visit

No reservation, no queue system. You walk up to the bar, taste, order and either stand or take it away.

• Instagram: @cucuruchoandcompany and @cucuruchocafe are where the taps, events and takeovers get posted. The Río Tigris hours are not published anywhere reliable, so this is the place to check.
• Email: hola@cucuruchocafe.com for orders, subscriptions and bean shipping.
• The other location: the group’s older café at Río Nazas, a few blocks away, keeps published hours of roughly 07:00 to 20:00 Monday to Friday and 08:00 to 16:00 on Saturday, closed Sunday. It is a filter-coffee café with seating, not the tap bar.
• Go in the morning if the donuts matter. The best flavours are gone early.

Getting there

• Address: Río Tigris 27, Colonia Cuauhtémoc, 06500 Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City.
• Metro: Insurgentes on Line 1 is about a ten-minute walk. Sevilla is a little further.
• Metrobús: the Reforma and Hamburgo stops on Line 1 along Insurgentes are both close.
• On foot: it is a short walk north from Paseo de la Reforma, and about fifteen minutes from the Ángel de la Independencia.
• Parking: street parking in Cuauhtémoc is metered and tight. Walking or a ride hail is easier.
• Not to be confused with: Cucurucho at Río Nazas, the group’s older café, a few blocks away.

Before you go

• Ask for a tasting first. Six taps is too many to guess at, and the staff pour samples as a matter of course.
• Dairy warning. Lactose-free cow’s milk is the only alternative on the bar.
• Do not plan to work here. Two benches outside and no tables inside.
• Donuts early, coffee any time. The flavours people want sell out in the morning.
• Ask what is on tap today. The six rotate, and the unusual lots are the reason to come.
• Pair it with a Cuauhtémoc walk. Taller Xilotl and Biggie’s are both walkable in Colonia Juárez next door.
• Check the hours before you go. The hours on this page come from the venue’s public listings, which drift, so confirm on Google Maps or the venue’s own channels before a special trip.

Watch the visit

The reel above is the short version of the taps, the roasters and the donut counter. For everywhere else I have filmed in the city, open my map or browse the rest of the Mexico City recommendations.