Coffee in Malaga: The different ways to order it

In Malaga we are unique and we have our own way of speaking and expressing ourselves. How could it be otherwise, we also have a peculiar way of naming the different types of coffee in Malaga.

Have you ever heard someone ask for a smurf with a cloud? There is no more typical Malaga breakfast, if you haven’t understood it, don’t worry, we’ll tell you.

If you plan to visit Malaga or move, you should know how to order a breakfast correctly. We make it very easy for you, here you have the explanation and the different ways of naming the coffees in Malaga to look like an expert from Malaga.

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Types of coffee in Malaga and its history

It all started with the Café Central Málaga , although unfortunately it closed at the beginning of 2022. This Café is one of the emblematic places of the Malaga capital and is part of its history.

Around 1920 it opened its doors, and in 1954 it was completed with the union of three different cafeterias, El Café Suizo, Café Munich and Café Central.

Buy your Malaga coffee

It was then that the special nomenclature of Malaga coffees began, ordered from the greatest amount of coffee to the least, the coffees of Malaga are the following:

• Café Solo: It is, as the name itself indicates, a cup only with coffee, for the most daring with this drink.
• Café Largo: It is a coffee with just a generous splash of milk, as they also say in Malaga with a finger of milk.
• Café Semi largo: Semi-long coffee is 80% coffee and 20% milk, for coffee lovers but who prefer to slightly lower its flavor.
• Sólo corto o Sólo cortado refers to a type of coffee where, even if it is all coffee, the entire cup is not filled, only up to a little more than half. For friends of pure coffee on those days when we need energy but we don’t have to go too far.
• Café Mitad: As its name indicates, it is a coffee that is half milk and half pure coffee, the perfect balance for many.
• Café Entre Corto: with more milk than coffee but similar to half, it is the opposite of semi-long coffee.
• Café Corto : Do you remember the short only coffee? Well, instead of filling more than half a cup of coffee, it is that same measure with milk and the rest of the cup with coffee, staying at 30% coffee and 70% milk.
• Café Sombra: As if it were a shadow we stain the milk with a little coffee, this coffee usually has proportions of 80% milk and 20% coffee.
• Café nube: even less than a stain, it is as subtle as a cloud in a clear sky, 90% milk and 10% coffee.
• Finally, the Café No me lo ponga, which is when you obviously don’t want anything.

Although it may seem silly to include this last ”coffee”, it is one of those that appears on the famous poster where the different types of coffee in Malaga were shown at the Café Central.

 

You already know how to order coffee in Malaga correctly

Now that you know the types of coffees where you can choose when ordering coffee in Malaga, all you have to do is find which of these delicious coffees is most similar to your tastes, and you can always accompany it with one of our typical locas or churros, if you are More sweet, or with a tasty Smurf, if you’re more salty. A plan you won’t want to say no to.

If you want to try good Malagueño coffee , you will have to think of a plan to make and release all the energy that our coffee will give you. We leave you with a list of activities to do in Malaga to make the most of your visit to our province.