Question Coffee

Rwanda produces exceptional coffee — high altitude, volcanic soil, the right conditions. Question Coffee is one of the places in Kigali doing the most with it. The café is the kind of spot that was clearly ahead of its time when it opened — exposed brick, proper equipment, people who know exactly what they're doing.

The coffee in the cup is genuinely good. But the real reason to come is the bags to take home. The Mayogi and the Rukunda Kawa Natural are both excellent — berry-forward, clean, nothing like what comes out of a supermarket anywhere. Nothing is a better present to bring back from a trip than coffee you hand-carried from the place where it was grown.

The project has a social mission alongside the coffee — it was founded to support Rwandan women coffee farmers, and the supply chain is transparent in a way that makes the bags feel like they mean something. Whether or not that's your usual consideration, it's worth knowing about.