D59B

Single-origin arabica, roasted since 2012

D59B has been roasting in Belgrade since 2012 as the city's first specialty micro-roastery, and the coffee still comes before everything else. The roastery works with single-origin, one hundred per cent arabica, roasted to bring out origin character, cup complexity and harvest year, with the chain from farm to roastery kept visible.

The retail shelf carries Decaf De Cana from Colombia, Ethiopia Tafeti Kela Sidamo, Burundi Gakenke Kayanza, Nicaragua Los Papales and Brazil Fazenda Mumbuca, alongside beans from Honduras, Papua New Guinea and other producing countries. The original idea when the project started was deliberately spare, coffee and water and not much else, and that discipline still shapes what happens on bar.

A stripped-back room in Lower Dorćol

The room is roughly the size of a living room, with concrete walls, tile floors, wooden benches and a communal white table, and a single A4 sheet standing in for chalkboard theatre. The building was a state-owned bus garage when Serbia was part of Yugoslavia, which fits the setting: Lower Dorćol is a former industrial quarter that later filled with restaurants, clubs, cafés and boutiques.

The experience is social but pared down. Expect grinding, pouring, steaming, music, conversation and the cup itself, without a broad hospitality format around it. That makes it a place to come for the coffee and stay for the talk rather than to settle in for a meal, and it is why the bar can hold its focus so tightly.

What to order

Start with a V60 filter, poured with precision, because it gives the clearest view of the single-origin approach. Ask which origins are running as filter that day: the Ethiopian Tafeti Kela Sidamo, the Burundian Gakenke Kayanza, Nicaragua Los Papales and Brazil Fazenda Mumbuca all rotate through, and the Colombian De Cana covers decaf without dropping the standard.

Espresso is the short classic and central to the bar's work, so it is the order when intensity matters more than clarity. Cold brew is the chilled option, and it stays inside the same coffee-first idea rather than sliding into sweet café drinks. Then take beans home, which is where the roastery side of D59B really pays off: Colombia, Ethiopia, Brazil, Honduras, Papua New Guinea, and whatever else has just come off the roaster.