Event guide · curated by Cascara
Philippine Coffee Expo 2026.
It starts with the cherryJune 5-7, 2026 at SPACE at One Ayala in Makati. Three days, dozens of Philippine roasters under one roof, and the closest thing the country has to a single annual snapshot of where local specialty coffee actually is. This is a curator's guide — what the event is, the roasters worth seeking out, and how to taste your way through the floor without flooding your palate by 11am.
Update · 7 June 2026
The auction results are in — Gloria Lagawan's Bukidnon lot drew the top price at ₱4,900 a kilo. Read the auction report →
When
5-7 June 2026
9am-8pm daily
Where
SPACE at One Ayala
Level 5, Ayala Center, Makati
What it is.
The Philippine Coffee Expo is the country's flagship trade event for specialty coffee. Every year it pulls together roasters from across the Philippines, importers, equipment vendors, baristas, and a public crowd that's grown sharply as third-wave coffee has matured here. The 2026 edition runs June 5-7 at SPACE at One Ayala — a central, well-served Makati venue that's easy to reach by MRT or car.
Programming usually mixes a busy exhibitor floor with talks, competitions, and producer-side conversations about Philippine origin coffee. For drinkers, the highest-value reason to go is simple: it's the one weekend a year where you can taste twenty-plus Philippine roasters back-to-back without leaving one building.
How to navigate the floor
Pick your corner before you go.
By the fourth or fifth pour your palate is shot. The way to get value out of an expo is to taste with intent — know which corner of the Process Spectrum you're hunting in, and route to the booths most likely to deliver.
Bright, floral, tea-like.
Balanced, chocolatey, familiar.
Juicy, fruit-forward, sweet.
Funky, fermented, unconventional.
Don't know your corner yet? The palate quiz takes five minutes — finish it before you set foot in One Ayala.
Roasters to seek out.
Philippine roasters in the Cascara cellar with active, well-developed lineups. Not an exhibitor list — that's on the official channels — but a curator's map of the Philippine specialty names worth knowing going into the event. If they have a booth, prioritize them. If they don't, ask the people who do whether they carry their beans.
Makati
Third-wave specialty roastery sourcing from Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia and the Philippines, with cafes in Makati, Ortigas,…
Paranaque
Quezon City
Muntinlupa
Curve Coffee Collaborators is a Philippine specialty roaster focused on award-winning, traceable single-origin and microlot…
Cebu City
Cebu City roaster offering traceable Philippine coffee with farm-to-cup transparency, shipping single origins and rare lots…
Makati
Makati cafe and roastery serving specialty single-origin coffee roasted in-house, with branches on Jimenez and San Isidro.
San Juan
San Juan-based specialty roaster focused on light-roast beans for retail and wholesale to quality-driven cafes.
Las Piñas City
Las Piñas roastery sourcing Philippine coffee through Fair Trade and sustainable practices, supplying beans nationwide via the…
Quezon City
Quezon City specialty roaster passionately roasting local and imported single-origin and blended beans since 2016, with fresh…
Batac
Mandaluyong
Mandaluyong specialty coffee roaster supplying roasted beans, barista training and equipment, with a flagship inside Shangri-La…
Antipolo
Bacolod
Davao City
Hinge Coffee Architect — a Davao City micro-roaster releasing small, rotating lots of single-origin and experimental-process…
Makati
Makati specialty coffee roaster and equipment distributor (La Marzocco, Rocket), with branches across Metro Manila.
How to taste twenty roasters in one day.
Eat first. Specialty coffee on an empty stomach reads sharper, more acidic, and more fatiguing. A real breakfast before you go in changes everything.
Spit by the second hour. Sommelier rules apply. After about four cups your taste receptors are overloaded and your judgement collapses. Treat the floor like a cupping table.
Take notes on your phone. By the time you're home you will not remember which roaster had the white-grape Yirgacheffe. Photograph the bag, type one sentence about the cup. Two-line notes beat zero-line memory.
Leave room to buy. If you find a bag that knocks you out, buy it on the day. Many roasters have limited microlots that don't make it back into wholesale channels — expo is often the only retail window.
Calibrate before you go.
Eleven questions, five minutes. Walk into the expo knowing exactly which roasters to prioritize.
Start calibrating →For roasters
Exhibiting at the expo? Get listed in the cellar.
People walking out of the expo with a bag they loved go home and search. If your roastery isn't in the Cascara directory, that search ends nowhere. Listing is free — a permanent profile with your full bean lineup and member ratings, indexed and discoverable year-round.
gil@cascara.cafe →Common questions.
When is the Philippine Coffee Expo 2026?
June 5 to 7, 2026. Doors run 9am to 8pm each day at SPACE at One Ayala, Level 5, Ayala Center, Makati. Three full days — most attendees only need one if they plan the floor before going in.
Where is the Philippine Coffee Expo held?
SPACE at One Ayala — Level 5 of the One Ayala complex at the corner of Ayala Avenue and EDSA in Makati. Directly above the One Ayala bus terminal, walkable from MRT-3 Ayala station and the Ayala Center mall network.
Is the Philippine Coffee Expo free to attend?
Ticketing varies by year. Check the official Philippine Coffee Expo channels closer to the date — historically there's been a public day pass with separate trade-day registration for industry attendees.
Which Philippine roasters will be there?
The official exhibitor list is published on the Philippine Coffee Expo's own channels — that's the source of truth. Cascara isn't an organizer; we're a directory of Philippine specialty roasters. The list below is curator-verified roasters in our cellar that you'd want to know going into the event, whether or not they have a booth.
How should I plan a day at the expo?
Three rules. (1) Decide your palate corner before you go — Clean, Classic, Fluid, or Experimental — and prioritize roasters in that corner. (2) Eat first; coffee on an empty stomach distorts everything by your fourth cup. (3) Spit, don't swallow, after the first hour. Cuppings are tasted, not drunk. The palate quiz below takes five minutes and gives you a map.
What's the difference between Philippine Coffee Expo and Manila Coffee Festival?
Two separate events run by different organizers. Philippine Coffee Expo (June, Makati) leans more toward trade and industry programming — competitions, talks, supply-chain conversations. Manila Coffee Festival (July) is more consumer-facing, with a heavier emphasis on local beans and cultural showcases. We have a guide for that one too — linked at the bottom.
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Author · Gil Erez, Founder of Cascara · 4 May 2026