Treverete sits on the ground floor of Edificio Bacatá — the tallest tower in Colombia — between Café Quindío and Crepes & Waffles. The latte is excellent. The barista is one of the warmest people I’ve met in Bogotá. And there is no menu. You just ask.
Treverete doesn’t have a website. Google Maps gets the location subtly wrong — it pins the building’s outline, not the spot inside where Treverete actually lives. There is no posted menu and no posted prices. So I made this site: an honest, independent guide for anyone trying to figure out whether to walk in.
Smooth, well-balanced, real espresso under properly steamed milk. If you only order one thing here, order this. The price is what you’d expect for a Bogotá specialty café.
No printed list. No QR code. No prices posted on the wall. You walk in, the server tells you what they have today and what it costs. The only place in Bacatá that operates this way — charming or confusing, depending on the day.
Acoustic sets and small ensembles, usually weekends. They post the upcoming lineup on Instagram — the most reliable place to check. Wine pours and a quieter mood after sunset.
The pin is in the right neighborhood — Calle 19 #5-30 — but you have to know to walk into Edificio Bacatá and look for the ground-floor strip between Café Quindío and Crepes & Waffles. A short visual guide so you don’t walk past it.
They are forty meters apart. Both serve excellent Colombian coffee. Which one you walk into depends on your mood — and on whether you want a posted menu. Side-by-side comparison.
The Crepes & Waffles in Bacatá is technically the ice-cream branch (Heladería). Different concept entirely, but it’s right next door — so the comparison comes up. What each is actually for.
Small. Warm. Quiet on a weekday morning, fuller on a Friday afternoon. Wood-and-cream interior, a few small tables, espresso machine within arm’s reach of the door. You get the sense someone designed this place by hand, not from a chain’s template.
The barista who works most mornings is, frankly, the best ambassador the place could have. She remembers what you ordered last time. She’ll tell you which pastry is freshest if you ask. She speaks the kind of Spanish that’s patient with a foreign accent and doesn’t rush. If she’s on shift, the visit is already half-good before the latte hits the cup.
The coffee program is real — not a corner of someone else’s concept, not a hotel-lobby afterthought. You can taste that the espresso is being pulled with attention. The milk is steamed to actual texture, not just warmed. For a city full of Juan Valdez and OMA outlets, finding a small independent operation pulling proper espresso inside the tallest tower in the country feels like a discovery.
The wine side — the “Vino Gourmet” in the full name — is more for the evening crowd. By-the-glass pours, light food to go with it, occasional live music. It’s not a cellar program, but it’s a real option after 5pm if you want something that isn’t loud and isn’t a hotel bar.
Treverete is inside Edificio Bacatá (also written “BD Bacatá”) at Calle 19 #5-30, on the ground floor. From the main Calle 19 entrance you’ll see Café Quindío toward one end, Crepes & Waffles (the ice cream branch) toward the other, and Treverete tucked between them. Carulla supermarket is also on the same ground floor — a useful landmark.
You walk in. You sit or stand at the counter. You ask “¿Qué tienen hoy?” (“What do you have today?”) The server tells you. You ask what it costs. You order. There’s no menu card, no QR code, no chalkboard list. This is the part that surprises every first-time visitor.
Smaller than you’d expect for a building this size. Maybe a dozen seats. Quieter than Café Quindío next door, which fills up with office workers at lunch. Slower service in the best sense — you don’t feel rushed.
Weekday mid-morning if you want to read or work alone with a flat white. Friday afternoon if you want a glass of wine before going home. Saturday evening if there’s live music posted on their Instagram.
If you’re passing through Edificio Bacatá and you want a good latte made by someone who actually cares, walk past Café Quindío and try the next door. You won’t see a menu. Ask anyway.
A small café inside a very large building generates a surprising amount of writing.
Treverete, Café Quindío, Crepes & Waffles, Carulla. Four very different stops within forty meters. What each is for.
Themes from public reviews, common praise and common complaints, plus a link to the actual Google reviews so you can read them in full.
Customer-submitted photos live on Google Maps — we link directly so you see the real place, not a stock-image approximation.