Maltepe roastery with its drum roaster behind the shop window.
Tuğba Erdoğdu started Taxo in June 2020 in a 15 square metre shop in Küçükyalı, roasting on a 30-year-old, five-kilo manual machine. By March 2021 she had moved to a 100 square metre site with a 15kg automatic roaster.
It chooses green coffee by harvest year, cupping score and analysis results. Eleven origins, from Ethiopia and Kenya to Peru and Indonesia, are on sale at taxocoffee.com, and the roasting is weekly.
The shop takes a ground-floor unit on Yeşiltepe Sokak, and the roasting can be watched from the street and the tables. Sacks of green coffee stand on pallets beside the roaster, a wood-faced counter and shelves of bagged beans run back from the window, and a covered terrace sits along the front.
