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My Coffee Awards 2026: Barcelona Guide
Three days of coffee, competitions and awards in Barcelona, with the 2026 edition at Nau Bostik from 6 to 8 November. What to expect and how to plan.
Guides5 min readUpdated October 15, 2026
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Three days of coffee, competitions and awards in Barcelona, with the 2026 edition at Nau Bostik from 6 to 8 November. What to expect and how to plan.
My Coffee Awards is not a trade fair with a party attached. It is a festival that takes awards seriously, and that mix has made it one of the largest coffee gatherings on the Iberian peninsula since it started in 2022. The 2026 edition runs from 6 to 8 November at Nau Bostik in Barcelona's Sant Andreu district.
Here is what the weekend involves, what a ticket has included in previous years, and what to plan for if you are traveling to it.
The festival takes place on Friday 6, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November 2026. It is held at Nau Bostik, an old industrial complex in Sant Andreu that has become one of the city's better known cultural venues, large enough for a busy hall, a competition stage and a food area at the same time.
| Detail | Status |
|---|---|
| Dates | 6 to 8 November 2026 |
| Venue | Nau Bostik, Carrer Ferran Turne 1 to 11, 08027 Barcelona |
| Opening hours | Pending confirmation from the organizers |
| Ticket prices | Pending confirmation for 2026 |
| Award categories | Pending confirmation for 2026 |
Prices for 2026 had not been published at the time of writing. The useful reference point is 2025, when tickets started at around ten euros and included free coffee: every coffee served inside the venue came with admission, which makes the ticket one of the better value options among coffee festivals.
The barista contest runs alongside the festival rather than replacing it.
Previous editions sold out, so buying in advance through the official channels is the sensible approach rather than turning up on the day. If you are traveling specifically for the festival, treat the Saturday as the day to secure. It carries the fullest program and the evening party.
The format is deliberately mixed. There is a hall of cafés and roasters, many from Barcelona, others from elsewhere in Spain and beyond, serving their own coffees, and around that a program built as much for the general public as for the trade.
That mix is why the festival draws a different crowd from a professional expo. A visitor with no industry interest can spend the day tasting coffee, eating and listening to music, while someone working in coffee can spend it comparing roasters and watching the competition. Both are looked after in the same room.
The award ceremony is the centerpiece of the weekend, and the categories are not the technical ones a barista championship would use. In 2025 they included Café Experience, Coffee Personality of the Year, Breakthrough Café, Excellence in Training, Pastry and Bakery Experience, Design and Atmosphere, and Sustainability, a list that rewards the experience of visiting a café as much as the drink in the cup.
Categories for 2026 are still to be confirmed. The significance of that list is worth pausing on, because it is unusually focused on the public. Most coffee awards are judged by professionals for professionals. These are closer to a guide's yearly honors, which is why cafés and bakeries with a strong public following compete in them as seriously as roasteries do at other events.
The 2025 edition also introduced My Coffee Guide, a scoring system that rates coffees in beans rather than points or stars, the same visual language restaurant guides use. It is a small detail with a larger meaning: bean ratings give the coffee drinking public a simple shorthand for quality, and a festival with thousands of visitors is an efficient place to introduce one.
The award categories reward the experience of visiting a cafe, not only the drink.
Whether the guide expands in 2026 has not been announced. For anyone who cares about how coffee quality gets communicated outside the industry, it is the part of the weekend worth watching closest.
The festival was founded in 2022 as the BCN Coffee Awards by Rafael Maggion and Andre Barretto, and it has grown quickly since. The fourth edition ran from 7 to 9 November 2025 at the same venue, with organizers aiming to pass 15,000 visitors.
Volume is part of the appeal and part of the problem to plan around. According to the organizers, each edition serves more than 50,000 coffees, which tells you how much tasting is on offer and how busy the hall gets at peak times. Arriving early, or treating the quieter moments of the afternoon as your tasting window, makes for a better day.
Pending. This section will be updated with the winners in each category after the award ceremony ends on the weekend of 6 to 8 November 2026.
From 6 to 8 November 2026 at Nau Bostik, Carrer Ferran Turne 1 to 11, in the Sant Andreu district of Barcelona. Opening hours are still to be confirmed.
Prices for 2026 had not been published at the time of writing. In 2025 they started at around ten euros and included unlimited coffee inside the venue, and previous editions sold out, so buying early is advisable.
Both, deliberately. The hall of cafés and roasters and the award ceremony sit alongside music, food and a Saturday night party. The program is designed so that a general visitor and a coffee professional can both spend the day well.
A three round contest for the title of Best Barista of Barcelona, with a cash prize. It runs alongside the festival rather than replacing it, and it is open to watch with a general ticket.
In 2025 the categories covered Café Experience, Coffee Personality of the Year, Breakthrough Café, Excellence in Training, Pastry and Bakery Experience, Design and Atmosphere, and Sustainability. The 2026 categories are pending confirmation.