Villa Café Indústria e Comércio

you're on rua platina, a residential stretch of prado that doesn't get much foot traffic from people passing through. that's the point, actually. villa café indústria e comércio sits at number 1094, and the fact that it operates as a roaster as well as a café matters: the coffee you're drinking here was processed and prepared with a direct relationship to the roasting side of things, not sourced and forgotten. belo horizonte has a genuinely strong specialty coffee scene, and prado is one of the quieter corners of it, which keeps the crowd local and the pace unhurried. this is a place worth going out of your way for on a weekday morning, before the city gets loud.