Dino Coffee

Dino Coffee roasts to order rather than holding pre-roasted stock, with the company itself stating a five-to-ten working-day turnaround between order and delivery so beans go out close to their actual roast date. That approach caps the business at genuinely small runs -- the roaster pauses roasting almost entirely over a summer holiday period, resuming with what the site calls the "next burn date" once the break ends, a scheduling rhythm most larger roasters wouldn't tolerate. Its beans reach Leiden through direct retail relationships rather than a wide supermarket footprint: Roka Delicious Food, 't Suppiershuysinge, Oogst and MijnTafel all stock Dino Coffee locally. The current catalog includes limited, high-end offerings alongside the everyday lineup -- a Janson LOT 985 Geisha lot, a variety generally prized for its floral, tea-like cup, sold in limited quantity at a premium price point. Dino also sells brewing equipment directly, including the Hario V60, which the operation names as its own preferred method, describing it on-site as "simple and pure, as coffee is meant to be." Registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, the company presents itself less as a retail cafe chain and more as a small, order-driven roasting operation supplying a short list of named Leiden accounts.