The first thing you will see as you walk in is the counter with jars and jars of coffee beans spread across it for sale by the gram. If you tend to look upwards, you might next notice the row of antique coffee pots and grinders above the counter. Look down, and you’ll see that the front of the counter has been covered by mosaics depicting cups of coffee and different coffee pots.

When all this looking around tires you out and you need to sit down, you might choose one of the armchairs by the counter under the old lamp, or you might take the wicker chairs and sofa around the small round table under the window. If you’re with a few friends, you might prefer one of the larger sofas towards the rear of the café. When it’s busy enough, there are folding chairs out on the footpath in front of the shop, and on the weekend of the annual cultural festival, some people even got take-aways and sat in the gutter.

When the menu arrives, you’ll notice that Dogvill supplies coffees from all over the world; Columbia, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, to name a few. These you can choose as Czech coffee, which means the water will be poured over the grounds, or espresso, with eight grams of beans. Uncle Su-Su was particularly impressed with the meticulous preparation of our espressos at the Kafírna. When you have ordered, the beans for your coffee will be weighed then placed into the grinder and ground by themselves. From there they go to the espresso machine and the beans for another cup of coffee can be weighed.

If choosing beans from a particular part of the world seems too much trouble, it’s also possible just to order an espresso, macchiato, cappuccino, etc with the house coffee of the day. Veverka chose the tall coffee with a scoop of ice-cream that might be a good option for the sweet-tooths amongst us. The double cappuccino is definitely the best choice for those who like their coffee BIG! and our favourite Koala proclaimed her hot chocolate delicious.

I chose the Papua New Guinea coffee as an espresso and the cup arrived with crema intact, itself an accomplishment in one of the greatest beer-drinking countries of the world. The milk was warmed in a separate jug and said cup was served as all cups of coffee should be, with a small glass of water as an accompaniment. Bravo!

Kafírna Dogvill is open seven days a week, on Saturday until 9pm, and every other day until 8pm.

I think it’s quite possibly the best little coffee house in the country.