Welcome to the 2026 version of Construct-Outs of Espresso! And prepare: this 12 months’s function sequence, an annual fixture on the Sprudge content material calendar, guarantees to be the most important, boldest, and greatest ever. We’re thrilled to be again sharing the tales of name new cafes all over the world, not too long ago opened and beneath building, 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 placement is beautiful, the design is immaculate, and we will’t wait to be taught extra. Let’s dive in!
The 2026 Construct-outs of Espresso is introduced by DONA, Pacific Barista Sequence, and La Marzocco.
As informed 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 based mostly in Roatán, Honduras, centered on redefining how espresso is skilled at origin. We supply and work instantly with Honduran producers, roast on the island, and serve espresso by means 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 undertaking 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 instantly with the journey of espresso from farm to cup.
What makes Spirit Origin distinctive is the deal with protecting extra worth inside a coffee-producing nation whereas presenting Honduran specialty espresso at a world luxurious hospitality commonplace. 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 be deeply tied to affect at origin by means of training, job creation, and long-term growth throughout the Honduran espresso sector.
Are you able to inform us a bit in regards to the new area?
The brand new Spirit Origin Espresso area was designed to be way more than a standard espresso store. The undertaking brings collectively a specialty espresso roastery, high quality management lab, cafe, Espresso Omakase expertise, and positive 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. Visitors can transfer by means of totally different components of the espresso journey—from roasting and high quality management to brewing and tasting—whereas interacting instantly with the manufacturing setting. Massive open areas, ocean-facing terraces, and floor-to-ceiling home windows have been integrated to maximise pure gentle and views all through the expertise.
One of many core objectives of the construct was to create a luxury-level espresso expertise inside a coffee-producing nation itself, somewhat than exporting the expertise overseas. The area combines hospitality, training, and manufacturing beneath one roof, with a powerful emphasis on showcasing Honduran specialty espresso by means of elevated service, structure, and storytelling.
The undertaking 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 help 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 instantly 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 means of roasting and last service, whereas additionally making a brisker and extra clear connection between company and the espresso itself.
From a roasting perspective, our purpose 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 all the pieces 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 approach — 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 gear 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 circulate, 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. In actual fact, coffees we sourced and labored with earned the #1 and #2 placements within the Honduras Cup of Excellence competitors final 12 months, 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 gear paired with specialty-focused grinders and brewing instruments throughout a number of brew strategies.
The general purpose was to mix production-level gear with a hospitality-driven setting the place company can expertise world-class espresso instantly inside a coffee-producing nation.
How is your undertaking contemplating sustainability?
Sustainability has been one of many core concerns behind the complete Spirit Origin undertaking, particularly given Roatán’s extraordinarily delicate island and marine ecosystem. As a B Corp-oriented firm, we wished the construct to steadiness hospitality, manufacturing, and environmental duty from the start.
One main element is our superior wastewater remedy infrastructure designed to attenuate environmental affect 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 might be crucial to Roatán’s ecosystem.
We’re additionally within the strategy of implementing a full photo voltaic vitality system with battery storage and inverter infrastructure that’s meant to offset and finally present nearly all of electrical energy consumption for the complete undertaking, together with the roastery, café, restaurant, and manufacturing areas.
On the packaging aspect, all of our espresso luggage are totally compostable and TÜV-certified, aligning with our purpose of lowering long-term waste whereas sustaining specialty-grade product high quality and shelf stability.
Past infrastructure, we additionally view sustainability by means of the lens of financial affect at origin—creating jobs, roasting in Honduras as an alternative 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 serious a part of the Spirit Origin undertaking.
Our branding and inventive path have been developed along with Biles Hendry, a fellow B-Corp inventive company that supported the undertaking professional bono. Their group helped form the visible id, storytelling, packaging path, 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 approach.
On the architectural aspect, we labored with the Chilean structure studio Stanacev Granados, whose group helped deliver the bodily imaginative and prescient of the undertaking to life. Their method centered closely on openness, pure gentle, visitor circulate, and integration with the encompassing panorama and panoramic ocean views of Roatán. The purpose was to create an area that feels immersive and experiential whereas nonetheless functioning as a working roastery, restaurant, and hospitality vacation spot beneath one roof.
The undertaking 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 undertaking related to the area and neighborhood the place it operates.
Thanks!
The 2026 Construct-outs of Espresso is introduced by DONA, Pacific Barista Sequence, and La Marzocco.
