Cumhur Kılıç left an unrelated career after visiting Istanbul's first new-wave shops, trained at the first barista school opened under MSA and worked unpaid on other cafés' bars. He opened in Teşvikiye in 2016 as Spada, Italian for sword, which is what his surname means in Turkish. Roasting began a year later in Bakırköy, and his first natural, a Colombian lot from Mirador, shed so much chaff that it caught fire in the roaster chimney.
The Bakırköy headquarters, designed by Espas Mimarlık in 2024, keeps roasting and packing in view of the café. The menu leans on Colombian lots such as Nestor Lasso's Ombligon and the Opal Geisha from Peñas Blancas, alongside Vietnamese coffees from Lâm Đồng and Điện Biên.
