El Terrible Juan Café

They roast the coffee and they bake the bread

El Terrible Juan roasts its own coffee and makes its own bread, and the two run on the same logic. The café was founded in Guadalajara in 2015 with a stated purpose, showing the quality of Mexican coffee in every cup, and that control extends from cherry harvest through to the drink in front of you. It started as a specialty coffee bar serving drinks, dishes and oven-baked pastries, and grew from there.

The bakery works the same way. Its own phrase for what it does is “hacemos pan”, and the bakery products and dressings come through the café's own distribution centre, so kitchen and coffee bar answer to a single production philosophy rather than to a list of suppliers.

Ranked among the world's hundred

The strongest external recognition is a place on The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops, where the café was ranked 96th in 2026. That is a useful marker for what it is: not a quick-cup stop, but a specialty coffee café with a bakery at the centre of it.

The coffee specifics stay broad rather than technical. In-house roasting, a Mexican-coffee-forward mission and attention across the whole chain are the reliable parts, and the americano is the drink that comes up most often on the tables. What the café asks you to judge is the sourcing and the roast rather than a list of equipment.

Start with the bread and the baked eggs

A first order should come from the bakery and breakfast side. Pan danés is the most specific pastry to ask for; panadería al horno is the broader direction if the case is full. Huevos al horno are the savoury anchor, and baked eggs with a Danish and an americano is close to the standard table here.

From there the menu is wider than a café counter usually goes. Sandwiches sit alongside more substantial dishes, and pizzas and hamburgers appear too, which is unusual for a specialty coffee address and consistent with a place that treats food as central rather than as an accessory to espresso.

The room is small, comfortable and often full, which fits a locally popular café with a real kitchen behind it. It is pet-friendly as well, to the point of bringing water for a dog that arrives with its owner.