YEDU.Coffee Heinrichstrasse 108 · 8005 Zürich
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African specialty coffee · roasted in Kreis 5

yedu

/ˈjɛ.duː/  ·  Shona, spoken across Zimbabwe & Southern Africa

“ours.” As in our soil, our harvest, our cup.

A roastery and coffee window at Heinrichstrasse 108. Espresso and V60 through the window, freshly roasted beans to take home — regeneratively grown, hand-sorted, and bought at fairer prices from farming families across Africa.

V60 & Espresso Find the window Buy coffee

Washed, natural, honey, anaerobic

Every V60 on the card is the same fruit — a coffee cherry. What changes is how it was dried, and that is most of what you taste.

Washed

The fruit is stripped off before drying, so nothing is left but the bean. The cleanest, clearest view of where a coffee grew.

Natural

The cherry dries whole with the fruit still on it. The bean takes that sweetness in — berry, jammy, heavier in the mouth.

Honey

The skin comes off, the sticky layer underneath stays on through drying. Lands between the two: syrupy sweetness, still clear.

Anaerobic

The cherry ferments sealed off from oxygen. Slow and tightly controlled, and it makes flavours no other method reaches — wild, funky, not for everyone.

Why the last one costs more: anaerobic is the hardest of the four to get right. The tanks are sealed, the fermentation has to be checked by the hour, and there is no pulling it back once it has gone too far — the lot is simply lost. Few farms attempt it and fewer land it, so the price carries the risk someone took and the little that comes through.

Not in Zürich? Our coffee beans are in the online shop.

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The list

The best lots never reach the shelf.

We buy whole micro-lots — sometimes one family’s entire harvest. A few hundred bags, and then that coffee is gone for good. The list hears first.

  • First refusal on every limited lot, 48 hours before anyone else
  • An invitation whenever we open a new lot at the window
  • The story behind each coffee — the farm, the altitude, the family

Take it home

The same beans we pour at the window.

African specialty coffee as whole beans, straight from our online shop.

  • Roasted to order in Kreis 5
  • Pause or cancel any time
  • Ships across Switzerland

Want to pour with us? Baristas, roasting help, events — we are always glad to meet people who love coffee.

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Why Yedu

The true taste of healthy soil and honest labour.

Soil

Regeneratively grown

Our coffees come from farms that feed their soil instead of stripping it — families who have nurtured the same land for generations. You can taste the difference living soil makes.

Hands

Fairer prices, hand-sorted

We pay well above commodity price for meticulously hand-sorted Arabica and Robusta from exclusive lots. Better pay, better sorting, better coffee — in that order.

Roast

Roasted here, in small batches

Everything is roasted in-house at Heinrichstrasse 108, in batches small enough that we know each one by name. What you buy was green coffee days before.

“Yedu” means ours — because this coffee belongs to the people who grow it, the people who roast it, and the people who drink it.

Before you ask

The questions we get most.

When are you open?

Tuesday to Friday, 12:00–16:00, at Heinrichstrasse 108 in Zürich Kreis 5. Closed Saturday to Monday. The band at the top of this page shows whether we are pouring right now.

What actually makes these coffees different?

They are African micro-lots: regeneratively grown, hand-sorted twice, and bought well above commodity price directly from the farming families who grow them. We buy whole lots, so when one has been roasted through, that coffee is gone.

Robusta? In a specialty coffee?

Yes — the good kind. Hand-sorted fine robusta from African smallholders brings body, crema and a depth that arabica alone cannot, and it is what makes the Traditional espresso what it is. We never hide it, and the percentages are printed on the menu.

Subscription or a single bag — which should I pick?

If you drink coffee most days, the subscription works out cheaper per cup and always arrives fresher, and you can pause or cancel whenever you like. If you would rather taste an origin first, buy a single bag.

Do you deliver across Switzerland?

Yes — subscriptions and single bags both ship nationwide. You can also collect at the window on Heinrichstrasse and skip the postage entirely.

Do you grind the coffee for me?

We can grind for espresso, filter or V60. Whole beans keep their flavour far longer, so if you own a grinder we would always suggest those.

What happens to my email address?

It is stored by us, in Switzerland, and used only to tell you about new lots and openings. We never sell or share it, there is a one-click unsubscribe in every email, and you can ask us to delete your details at any time by writing to info@yedu.coffee.

Find the window

Heinrichstrasse 108
8005 Zürich

In the middle of Kreis 5 — a short walk from Limmatplatz. Look for the green bags in the window. It is exactly that: a window, not a café, so there is nowhere to sit.

PaymentVisa, Mastercard, Amex, debit & contactless — no cash needed
Getting herePaid street parking nearby; easiest by tram or bike
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Right now Closed · Next open: Tuesday, 12:00

Closed for a holiday until Monday 19 October. The hours below apply again after that.

Opening hours
Monday Closed
Tuesday 12:00 – 16:00
Wednesday 12:00 – 16:00
Thursday 12:00 – 16:00
Friday 12:00 – 16:00
Saturday 12:00 – 16:00
Sunday Closed

Zürich time. Holidays can differ — the Google listing is always current.

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