11 Oct 2024 ACF 2024:22,324 coffee lovers. An amazing festival.
Coffee lovers, baristas, industry’s professionals. They were here, all 22,324 of them, at ATHENS COFFEE FESTIVAL. An impressive three-day celebration full of events, food, music, laughter, but above all, love for Coffee!
September is dedicated to Coffee. Why? Because every September the greatest coffee celebration in Greece, ATHENS COFFEE FESTIVAL, welcomes all those who love good coffee. So again this year, we welcomed home baristas as well as professionals of the coffee industry, who tried unique blends from 120+ brands, discovered the most modern machines and equipment and were also impressed with the proposals in various types of beverages. Coffee masters prepared and offered visitors more than 60,000 cups of coffee -espresso, freddo, cappuccino, filter, Greek, latte- and took us on a delicious journey to Vietnam, Indonesia, Panama, Brazil, Honduras, Guatemala, Kenya, Ethiopia.
Three days full of dancing, music, laughter & delicacies
If someone, who wasn’t there, asked us to describe everything we experienced those these days we would say… Magical atmosphere, fantastic vibe, excellent flavors and smiles everywhere. Because ATHENS COFFEE FESTIVAL is not just a coffee festival, it is an exciting experience that will make you dance, laugh and have a great time with your friends, your boyfriend or girlfriend, your family, or your fellow barista.
At ATHENS COFFEE FESTIVAL we accompanied our coffee with juicy chocolate pie, crispy pretzels, we tasted falafel, delicious burgers, and ice cream that we discovered in the Steet Food neighborhood. We laughed out loud during the stand up performances of the fantastic comedians, Lambros Fifis and Zisi Roubos. We attended the Music Stage to listen live the radio producers of En Lefko 87.7, Sakis Tsitomeneas and Spyros Pagiatakis. We sang our favorite rock hits at the concert of Penelope Anastasopoulou, Mama Sings Fire & Ian Stratis.
We discovered the new band Over9000. We danced flamenco together with Compañía Flamenco soleá and Chorokinesi. We clubbed endlessly with the live DJ set of the king of the decks, CJ JEFF, as well as the special performance of the super talented Eren Alioglou.
Passion, knowledge & award-winning baristas
As the top event for the coffee industry, of course the festival welcomed a multitude of coffee masters, world and Hellenic champions as well as members of SCA Greece, who during the Coffee Talks introduced us to the magical world of coffee, through workshops and speeches that combined knowledge, innovation and creativity. At the same time, fourteen distinguished and up-and-coming roasters competed for the first place in the 2025 Roasting Championship, as well as the representation of our country in the world championship.
Thank you all for joining us for another exciting festival! See you again in 2025 with even more experiences, surprises and, of course, plenty of coffee! ☕️✨ We can’t wait!
Grand sponsor of the festival was for one more year NOYNOY BARISTA’S GOLD