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10 Best Coffee Roasters in Singapore

Meet 10 of the best coffee roasters in Singapore — roastery cafes and specialty bars for espresso, pour-over and freshly roasted beans to take home.

By: Amir Wahab
Edited by: Amir Wahab
Published: 25 Sep 2026
Reading time: 4 min read

A barista pouring latte art at a specialty coffee roastery cafe in Singapore

Singapore's third-wave scene runs on a small army of dedicated roasters, and the best coffee roasters in Singapore treat sourcing, roasting and brewing as the whole point rather than a sideline to brunch. This guide gathers ten specialty roasteries and roaster-cafes — from HDB espresso bars to riverside roastery cafes — each verified against its own website or official listing. Use it as a shortlist for great beans and a properly pulled shot, not a strict ranking.

1. Nylon Coffee Roasters

Tucked beneath an HDB block in Everton Park, Nylon is a roastery and espresso bar rolled into one, built around a compact counter rather than a food menu. The team roasts on site and says it aims for traceable, transparent relationships with the farms it buys from, rotating single origins across espresso and filter. It is one of the city's most single-mindedly coffee-first addresses.

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2. PPP Coffee (Chye Seng Huat Hardware)

PPP Coffee — the roasting company once known as Papa Palheta — runs the landmark Chye Seng Huat Hardware roastery cafe on Tyrwhitt Road, set in a converted hardware building with a wraparound coffee bar. It sources, roasts and serves its own beans and says it has been a specialty coffee pioneer here since 2009, pouring espresso and filter with a rotating range to take home. The Jalan Besar space works as both a hangout and a serious brew bar.

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3. Tiong Hoe Specialty Coffee

Tiong Hoe is a veteran family-run roaster whose Stirling Road cafe in Queenstown feels half neighbourhood coffee bar, half working roastery. The company roasts across a wide spread of origins, offers custom roasting and bespoke blends for wholesale partners, and serves espresso and pour-over at the counter. Homegrown and long-running, it pairs old-school roasting knowledge with a modern specialty menu.

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4. Common Man Coffee Roasters

Common Man Coffee Roasters opened its Martin Road home in Robertson Quay in 2013 and has since grown into a roaster, wholesaler and barista academy with several outlets around the island. The team roasts in Singapore and describes its sourcing as relationship-first, working with producers on more sustainable growing. The airy flagship is as known for brunch as for coffee, so order the espresso or filter to get at the roastery's core.

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5. Dutch Colony Coffee Co.

Dutch Colony Coffee Co. says it has roasted specialty coffee in Singapore since 2013, and it runs a cluster of neighbourhood espresso bars alongside a central roastery and academy. Each outlet pours its own house-roasted beans across espresso and filter, and the roaster also sells whole beans and runs workshops. The compact-cafe format makes it an easy everyday specialty stop in several residential pockets.

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6. Parallel Coffee Roasters

Parallel Coffee Roasters started in 2017 around the idea of good specialty coffee at an everyday price, and its Club Street cafe roasts and serves beans sourced from around the world. Expect a straightforward, coffee-led offering of espresso and filter, plus drip bags and beans to take away. It leans approachable rather than fussy, under the tagline 'a better coffee everyday.'

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7. Apartment Coffee

Apartment Coffee is a coffee-obsessive's spot on Selegie Road, built around single-origin brews and a pared-back, seasonal take on what it serves. The team has also opened a weekend-only roastery space at Jalan Riang for deeper tastings, a sign of how central sourcing and roasting are to the concept. Come for carefully brewed filter and espresso rather than a big food spread.

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8. Homeground Coffee Roasters

Homeground Coffee Roasters describes itself as a community of home brewers, and it organises its menu by brew method — espresso, filter and drip bags — as much as by origin. It roasts its own beans, runs a subscription and pours at cafes including a Tanjong Pagar space on Teo Hong Road and an outlet on Bukit Timah Road. The brewing-forward, education-minded slant makes it a useful stop for anyone dialling in coffee at home.

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9. Bettr Coffee

Bettr Coffee is a homegrown roaster and social enterprise that says it roasts to order weekly and pairs the coffee with a training mission focused on marginalised youth and women. It runs walk-in coffee bars, including one at Six Battery Road, and sells whole beans, brew bags and drip bags of its blends and single origins. The company states it is Singapore's first B Corp-certified business, so the ethics are as much the story as the espresso.

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10. Toby's Estate

Toby's Estate roasts specialty coffee at its Rodyk Street cafe in Robertson Quay, pairing espresso and single-origin filter with a riverside setting. The roaster says it sources green beans directly from farmers and releases dozens of coffees a year, and it sells beans and brewing gear for home use. It is a comfortable, coffee-forward spot that still takes the bean seriously.

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How to choose

Decide whether you want a place to sit or beans to brew at home. Some roasters run full roastery cafes with espresso bars and seating, while others are production roasteries selling mainly online or by subscription — check for a walk-in outlet before you head down.
Look for freshness cues. Specialty roasters usually state a roast date rather than just a best-before, and beans are generally at their best in the weeks after roasting, so favour a roaster that tells you when the coffee was roasted and sells through quickly.
Match the roaster to how you brew. If you pull espresso at home you want espresso-leaning blends and guidance; if you prefer pour-over or filter, look for lighter single origins — many roasters label beans by intended method or share brew recipes.
Read how they talk about sourcing. Transparent roasters name origins, farms or importers and explain their buying relationships; treat these as the roaster's own claims, but detailed, specific sourcing notes are a good sign of a coffee-first operation.
Consider the format and setting. A coffee-obsessed bar with a short food menu is a different experience from an all-day brunch cafe that also roasts — decide whether you are there mainly for the cup or a full meal, and check opening days, as some roasteries close midweek or open only on weekends.

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Published 25 Sep 2026. No changes recorded since.

About the author

Amir Wahab

Founder and Editor

Amir Wahab is the founder and editor of LocalRank, an independent Singapore rankings and local guides publication.

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