Colombo Coffee & Tea

Trading as Durban's Coffee Company, Colombo Coffee and Tea runs its cafe and roastery from Adelaide Tambo Drive in Durban North, after consolidating operations there from an earlier site on what was Gale Street (now Magwagaza Maphalala Street) in Lower Glenwood. The company roasts specialty coffee sourced from Africa and South and Central America, selling both single-origin lots - Burundi and Ethiopia among them - and named blends such as Aggressive Chocolate and Athari, the latter marketed under a 'Positive Impact Coffee' line pointing to a direct-trade or farmer-support angle in its sourcing. Beyond retail bags for home brewing, the business supplies professional cafe equipment, runs coffee training programs, and operates a wholesale arm serving other cafes and businesses, positioning itself as infrastructure for Durban's wider coffee trade rather than only a shopfront. The name nods to tea as well as coffee, though the bulk of the published range and the roastery's own emphasis sits squarely on specialty coffee. For a city where much of the coffee scene runs through a handful of roasters, Colombo's combination of cafe, training arm and wholesale supply gives it a wider footprint in Durban's coffee trade than a single retail counter would.