STEAM Coffee Shop - Charles de Gaulle
clean, consistent specialty coffee
Neighborhood specialty bar with clean, consistent coffee. Friendly team and a few stools. Best mornings; space is tight later.
In Dorobanți, Bucharest. Easy to fold into a morning or a longer afternoon; there's usually something else worth a stop within a few minutes' walk.
STEAM Coffee Shop at Piața Charles de Gaulle 13 is one of the early pioneers of Bucharest's third-wave/specialty coffee scene, known for thoughtfully sourced beans, single-origin espresso, and meticulously brewed filter coffee served by skilled, welcoming baristas. Reviews consistently praise the cappuccino as well-balanced and creamy, and the spot rates highly (≈4.4–4.7 across aggregators). It adopted a laptop-free policy in 2020 to encourage conversation, and is dog-friendly with limited seating. This matches the curator's read of a tight but consistent neighborhood specialty bar that shines in the mornings. Could not directly fetch the European Coffee Trip page (403), so details rely on aggregated search results.
