Welcome to the 2026 version of Construct-Outs of Espresso! And prepare: this yr’s function collection, an annual fixture on the Sprudge content material calendar, guarantees to be the most important, boldest, and finest ever. We’re thrilled to be again sharing the tales of brand name new cafes all over the world, lately opened and below development, as a part of a reporting custom that dates all the way in which again to 2012. To kick issues off let’s with t first: Spirit Origin Espresso of Roatán, Honduras is the first-ever Honduran cafe to be included within the Construct-Outs. The situation is beautiful, the design is immaculate, and we will’t wait to study extra. Let’s dive in!

The 2026 Construct-outs of Espresso is offered by DONA, Pacific Barista Sequence, and La Marzocco.

As instructed to Sprudge by Paul Gromek.

For many who aren’t acquainted, will you inform us about your organization?

Spirit Origin Espresso is a vertically built-in specialty espresso firm primarily based in Roatán, Honduras, targeted on redefining how espresso is skilled at origin. We supply and work immediately with Honduran producers, roast on the island, and serve espresso by way of a mix of specialty cafe service, an immersive Espresso Omakase expertise, and a hospitality-driven restaurant idea referred to as From the Roots.

Our flagship venture is a 12,000-square-foot vacation spot constructed on the very best mountain in Roatán, that includes panoramic ocean views, a Probat roastery, high quality management lab, open manufacturing areas, and curated visitor experiences designed to attach guests immediately with the journey of espresso from farm to cup.

What makes Spirit Origin distinctive is the concentrate on protecting extra worth inside a coffee-producing nation whereas presenting Honduran specialty espresso at a global luxurious hospitality customary. We work with uncommon micro-lots and Cup of Excellence coffees, and our idea was designed to draw each native company and worldwide tourism, together with cruise passengers in search of elevated meals and beverage experiences.

Past hospitality, our mission can also be deeply tied to influence at origin by way of training, job creation, and long-term growth throughout the Honduran espresso sector.

Are you able to inform us a bit concerning the new area?

The brand new Spirit Origin Espresso area was designed to be far more than a standard espresso store. The venture brings collectively a specialty espresso roastery, high quality management lab, cafe, Espresso Omakase expertise, and superb eating restaurant into one built-in hospitality vacation spot overlooking the Caribbean Sea in Roatán, Honduras.

The 12,000-square-foot construct sits on the island’s highest mountain and was deliberately designed round transparency and immersion. Friends can transfer by way of totally different components of the espresso journey—from roasting and high quality management to brewing and tasting—whereas interacting immediately with the manufacturing setting. Giant open areas, ocean-facing terraces, and floor-to-ceiling home windows had been included to maximise pure gentle and views all through the expertise.

One of many core targets of the construct was to create a luxury-level espresso expertise inside a coffee-producing nation itself, fairly than exporting the expertise overseas. The area combines hospitality, training, and manufacturing below one roof, with a powerful emphasis on showcasing Honduran specialty espresso by way of elevated service, structure, and storytelling.

The venture additionally features a devoted Espresso Omakase room for curated tasting experiences, a full-service restaurant referred to as From the Roots, and a production-focused roasting facility constructed round a Probat system and QC lab to assist each retail and wholesale operations.

What’s your method to espresso?

Our method to espresso is centered round showcasing the complete potential of Honduran specialty espresso whereas protecting extra worth and recognition at origin. We focus closely on traceability, high quality management, and hospitality, combining manufacturing and visitor expertise into one ecosystem.

We work immediately with producers throughout Honduras and prioritize distinctive micro-lots, experimental processing, and Cup of Excellence-level coffees. As a result of we roast at origin in Roatán, we’re capable of keep shut management over the espresso from sourcing by way of roasting and closing service, whereas additionally making a brisker and extra clear connection between company and the espresso itself.

From a roasting perspective, our objective is readability, sweetness, and steadiness whereas respecting the distinctive traits of every espresso. We method espresso as each a craft product and a hospitality expertise, which is mirrored in every part from our QC protocols and brewing requirements to our Espresso Omakase format and meals pairings.

In the end, we would like company to expertise espresso in a extra immersive and elevated means — not simply as a beverage, however as a narrative of origin, individuals, processing, terroir, and hospitality all coming collectively in a single place.

Any machines, coffees, particular tools lined up?

Our roasting program is constructed round a Probat P12, which serves because the centerpiece of the manufacturing area and permits company to expertise roasting as a part of the general hospitality setting. The roastery is totally built-in into the visitor stream, alongside our high quality management lab and brewing areas.

On the espresso aspect, we focus closely on uncommon Honduran micro-lots and Cup of Excellence coffees. The truth is, coffees we sourced and labored with earned the #1 and #2 placements within the Honduras Cup of Excellence competitors final yr, and people coffees are featured inside our tasting and Omakase experiences at origin.

For espresso service, we use a La Marzocco Modbar system contained in the Espresso Omakase room to create a extra interactive and minimalist visitor expertise, whereas the principle cafe operates on La Marzocco espresso tools paired with specialty-focused grinders and brewing instruments throughout a number of brew strategies.

The general objective was to mix production-level tools with a hospitality-driven setting the place company can expertise world-class espresso immediately inside a coffee-producing nation.

How is your venture contemplating sustainability?

Sustainability has been one of many core issues behind all the Spirit Origin venture, particularly given Roatán’s extraordinarily delicate island and marine ecosystem. As a B Corp-oriented firm, we needed the construct to steadiness hospitality, manufacturing, and environmental duty from the start.

One main part is our superior wastewater therapy infrastructure designed to attenuate environmental influence on the island. The system processes and treats water used all through the operation earlier than discharge, serving to defend the encompassing setting and close by reef methods which can be essential to Roatán’s ecosystem.

We’re additionally within the means of implementing a full photo voltaic vitality system with battery storage and inverter infrastructure that’s supposed to offset and finally present nearly all of electrical energy consumption for all the venture, together with the roastery, café, restaurant, and manufacturing areas.

On the packaging aspect, all of our espresso baggage are totally compostable and TÜV-certified, aligning with our objective of lowering long-term waste whereas sustaining specialty-grade product high quality and shelf stability.

Past infrastructure, we additionally view sustainability by way of the lens of financial influence at origin—creating jobs, roasting in Honduras as a substitute of exporting inexperienced espresso overseas, and serving to retain extra worth inside coffee-producing communities.

What’s your hopeful goal opening date/month?

We opened on February 13, 2026.

Are you working with craftspeople, architects, and/or creatives that you just’d like to say?

Sure, collaboration with creatives and mission-driven companions has been a significant a part of the Spirit Origin venture.

Our branding and artistic course had been developed along with Biles Hendry, a fellow B-Corp artistic company that supported the venture professional bono. Their workforce helped form the visible identification, storytelling, packaging course, and total model positioning behind Spirit Origin Espresso as we labored to create an idea that displays each specialty espresso and hospitality at origin in a extra elevated and internationally recognizable means.

On the architectural aspect, we labored with the Chilean structure studio Stanacev Granados, whose workforce helped convey the bodily imaginative and prescient of the venture to life. Their method targeted closely on openness, pure gentle, visitor stream, and integration with the encompassing panorama and panoramic ocean views of Roatán. The objective was to create an area that feels immersive and experiential whereas nonetheless functioning as a working roastery, restaurant, and hospitality vacation spot below one roof.

The venture additionally concerned collaboration with native craftspeople, builders, and hospitality professionals all through Honduras and Roatán, which was vital to us as a part of protecting the venture linked to the area and neighborhood the place it operates.

Thanks!

The 2026 Construct-outs of Espresso is offered by DONA, Pacific Barista Sequence, and La Marzocco.