shops in the past few years the speciality of these cafes is that they source and roast coffee beans as per demand blue tokai which has cafes all around the country recently opened its third outlet in kolkata despite the wrath of the pandemic and lockdown inhouse roasting too has its degree of intensity and coffee lovers take great care to ensure if their coffee is lightbodied acidic or bitter there are four kinds of roasts light medium mediumdark and dark the most popular roast is perhaps mediumdark besides the singleestate coffees that we procure from karnataka we also get green beans directly from the farmers and 80 of our coffee is roasted inhouse said nikhil only micro batches of other estate coffees come to our shop for delicate brewing he added grant walsh owner of 8th day cafe bakery which has two outlets in kolkata takes equal pride in his roasting process we roast our beans at our hindustan park outlet to ensure the freshest quality we use what is regarded as one of the best coffee roasters which we imported from germany our staff roasters are also professionally trained in the art and science of roasting he saidindian coffee a hitindia is the thirdlargest producer and exporter of coffee in asia and the sixthlargest producer and fifthlargest exporter of coffee in the world the country accounted for 314 of the global coffee production in 201920 hence most craft coffee places in the city highly depend on south indian hill plantations we source green coffee beans from karnataka the main coffee farms we source from include balanoor thogarihunkal estates and travancore these are arabica beans which are more popular across the globe said grant other city cafes also source most of their beans from chikmagalur and coorg