Cafezal Brunch & Specialty Coffee - Bicocca/BiM

House-roasted single origins run from traditional Brazilian coffees to high-end Gesha lots at Cafezal Bicocca/BiM, poured as espresso or filter beside a brunch counter.

Single origins, espresso and filter

The coffee is the clearest strength. Cafezal buys its own green coffee and roasts it artisanally, and the Bicocca branch pours the results across a wide single-origin range, from approachable Brazilian coffees at one end to prestige Gesha lots at the other, which turns ordering into a guided choice rather than a default cappuccino. Both espresso and filter preparations are offered, so the cup is not locked into one brew style, and the same bean can read very differently depending on which is chosen. No particular machinery is put forward, and it hardly matters: the format carries the room, with in-house roasting and a selection broad enough to be worth asking about before deciding.

Brunch and pastry, not a coffee-only counter

The name is accurate about the format. This is a brunch and specialty coffee room rather than a pure espresso bar, with pastries, lunch, brunch and aperitivo all part of what these cafés do, and the pastries and the brunch the parts most often singled out here. The retail side stretches further still, into beans, capsules, drip bags, cold brew and mate and chai products, which gives a sense of how far the roastery reaches beyond the cup served at the table. It also means a good coffee found here can be bought in a form that survives the journey home.

A room built to be sat in

The interior is carefully designed and the outdoor tables sit among greenery, which makes the whole place calmer than the Bicocca district around it would suggest. It is the kind of café where a laptop is unremarkable and an hour passes easily, and the service stays relaxed rather than transactional. Use it as a coffee-plus-food stop: order a single origin, ask what has been roasted recently, add a pastry or a brunch plate, and take a table outside if the weather allows. Ask for a recommendation if the list is unfamiliar, since the range is wide enough that a stated preference usually produces a better cup than a guess. Treated that way it is one of the more complete specialty-coffee rooms in this part of Milan.