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Cafe Bustelo

Café Bustelo Espresso Ground Coffee, Dark Roast

Product Description ¡Bienvenidos! Enjoy the unique and exciting taste of Café Bustelo espresso style dark roast coffee. Bold. Robust. Distinct. Always pure and flavorful, like no other.

9.1 /10
★★★★½ Must Drink Overall Score · 80% expert / 20% community Ranked #150 of 1193 (Top 13%)
Our Coffee Score 9
Coffee Lovers Score 9.6
Overall Ranked #150 of 1193 (Top 13%)
Ground Coffee Ranked #39 of 200 (Top 20%)
Our Coffee Score Ranked #192 of 1193 (Top 17%)
Coffee Lovers Ranked #6 of 1193 (Top 1%)

Our verdict: Ranked #33 of our top 200 ground coffee — an outstanding dark pick with bold, rich notes, earning a 4.8★ average across 9,064 Amazon ratings.

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Key facts

Roast
Dark
Origin
Colombia, Brazil, Mexico
Process
Roasted
Size
10 oz
Best for
Cold Brew, Drip, Espresso, Moka Pot

Flavor notes

BoldRich

The Coffee Score review

Product Description ¡Bienvenidos! Enjoy the unique and exciting taste of Café Bustelo espresso style dark roast coffee. Bold. Robust. Distinct. Always pure and flavorful, like no other. Our team spent hands-on time with the Café Bustelo Espresso Ground Coffee, Dark Roast to see how it holds up against the rest of the ground coffee we've tested.

Across repeated sessions we evaluated it on the categories that matter most: quality, consistency, value, and how likely we are to reach for it again. Ranked #33 of our top 200 ground coffee — an outstanding dark pick with bold, rich notes, earning a 4.8★ average across 9,064 Amazon ratings.

Product Description ¡Bienvenidos! Enjoy the unique and exciting taste of Café Bustelo espresso style dark roast coffee. Bold. Robust. Distinct. Always pure and flavorful, like no other. With a rich heritage of serving Latin communities since 1928, Café Bustelo coffee embodies an iconic passion, energy and thirst for life. And now, it's available in four limited edition cans, each celebrating a different Latin nation (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina or Colombia). Not only that — to help you get your game face on, each can includes a tattoo kit of the design shown on the front.

From the roaster

  • CONTAINS: One 10-oz. can of Café Bustelo espresso style dark roast ground coffee
  • LIMITED EDITION CAN WITH TATTOO KIT: Receive one of four designs, each inspired by a different Latin nation, plus a tattoo kit — included to help you get your game face on (To choose a specific design, check stores near you. Limited time only).
  • BOLD LATIN FLAVOR: Unique and flavorful coffee that stands up to milk and sugar for delicious sabor latino every time
  • ESPRESSO STYLE: Dark roast coffee with intense and robust flavor, ideal for cafecitos and other Latin coffee drinks
  • CRAFTED WITH PASSION SINCE 1928: The coffee choice of Latin communities for generations

What we liked

  • Strong overall Coffee Score of 9/10 — ranked #150 of 1193 (13% percentile).
  • Distinct flavor profile: Bold, Rich.
  • Community agrees — a Coffee Lovers Score of 9.6/10 from 9,064 ratings.

How we graded this coffee

Mass-market brand Grading framework
Taste 40% weight 9.7
Freshness 20% weight 8.6
Bean Quality & Sourcing 15% weight 8.9
Value 15% weight 7.6
Roast Quality 10% weight 8.8
Our Coffee Score (experts, 80% of overall) 9/10

The Coffee Lovers Score

Averages 4.8★ from 9,064 verified Amazon shoppers.

5 star 89%
4 star 7%
3 star 2%
2 star 0%
1 star 2%
  • Mike Pereyra Verified purchase ★★★★★

    rich, and always reliable!

    Bold, rich, and always reliableI’ve been drinking Café Bustelo for a while, and it never disappoints. The flavor is strong, smooth, and full-bodied — perfect for espresso or a bold morning coffee.

    16 found this helpful

  • Justice Verified purchase ★★★★★

    This coffee is the truth!

    Listen! This coffee has an amazing taste! I love it. If you want to stay awake, get this coffee. I can’t drink it everyday because it wires me and I am awake and alert all night LMBO!

    1 found this helpful

  • candy Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Best ever Espresso!

    Best Espresso ever! Bold flavor! Highly recommend!

    1 found this helpful

  • William Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Smooth dark espresso that is a pleasure to sip and enjoy.

    We love the flavor strength and smoothness of this espresso coffee the aroma is amazing. We use a stove top espresso steam coffee pot . The dark roast is a good value for the price paid. Excellent

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