A Little Bit of Heaven on Earth
Heavenly Coffees has been crafting coffee in Centurion since 2012 — that's over a decade in a market where most specialty roasters haven't crossed five years. Their angel branding and warm aesthetic tell you everything: this is a roastery that values consistency and longevity over hype.
Phumlani is a key member of the team — part of the warm, knowledgeable presence at the festival booth that made Heavenly one of the more inviting stops at Jo'burg Coffee Festival 2026.
The Coffees
El Mirador
Colombian Specialty Single Origin
The standout of the Heavenly lineup. Clean, well-roasted, with balance that speaks to over a decade of craft.
House Blend
The Everyday Cup
Gateway coffee in the bridging thread — alongside Cedar's Milky Way, Brüder's Little Bro, and Bluebird's DREAMER.
Frequently Asked Questions
How to buy Heavenly coffee
Heavenly have been roasting in Centurion since 2012, which in South African specialty terms makes them an elder. Longevity changes how a roastery sells: there is less launch noise and more reliable restocking.
Online, shipped nationally
heavenlycoffees.co.za carries the range. The House Blend is the obvious first order and the El Mirador is the one to add when you want to taste what a decade of practice sounds like in a single origin.
From the Centurion roastery
Centurion sits between Johannesburg and Pretoria, which makes it an easy stop for anyone in either city rather than a special trip.
At festivals and markets
Their booth at Jo’burg Coffee Festival 2026 was one of the friendlier stops on the floor, with Phumlani doing a lot of the talking. Festivals are the cheapest way to taste several of their coffees in one go.
As a café supplier
Twelve years of continuous roasting is exactly the track record a café owner should be looking for in a wholesale partner — consistency across months matters more than a single spectacular lot.
I have tasted Heavenly at a festival rather than sitting in their roastery, so treat this as an informed impression rather than a full review. Prices and available lots change; their own site is the current source.
Brewing Heavenly at home
Heavenly are not chasing the most extreme processing in the country, and that is the point of them. The House Blend is built to be drunk every morning, and the El Mirador is a clean, well-roasted Colombian rather than a fermented curiosity. Both are coffees that behave predictably on a home machine, which is worth more on a Tuesday than novelty is.
On my Breville Barista Express, a well-roasted Colombian single origin like the El Mirador is about as pleasant as home espresso gets: it takes milk without disappearing, and it survives a slightly imperfect grind.
- Treat the House Blend as your baseline. If it tastes wrong, the machine or the grinder has drifted — a consistent blend is a diagnostic tool as much as a drink.
- Pull the El Mirador at a standard 1:2 ratio before you experiment. Its balance is the feature, so there is little to gain from chasing a ristretto.
- Buy smaller bags more often. A twelve-year-old roastery restocks reliably, so there is no reason to hoard and let coffee go stale.
- If your water is hard — much of Gauteng’s is — the flat, chalky finish you might blame on the beans is often the kettle. Our water quality tool covers what to do about it.
Working through a new bag? The dial-in guide walks through sour, bitter and channelling shots step by step, and the grind size guide gives micron values for 20+ grinders sold in South Africa.
Where to Find Them
Centurion, Gauteng
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Robin Chat Coffee
Pretoria
A much younger Gauteng roaster, which makes the contrast with a decade-plus operation interesting.
Bruder Coffee
Klerksdorp & Kroonstad
Another roaster built on steady consistency rather than a competition circuit.
Every roaster we have profiled sits in the South African roaster directory, and the ones with a public café are pinned on the coffee map.
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What the Google listing says
Read off Heavenly Coffees’s own Google Maps listing in August 2026. These are Google’s figures and Google’s labels, not mine — useful for working out when to go and what to expect, but check before you drive.
Google files it under Coffee roastery — I list it as Roaster.
When it is busy
Peak
Saturday around 10:00
Its busiest hour of the week on Google’s popular-times graph.
Quietest
Monday around 16:00
Roughly 26% as busy as its peak.
What reviewers keep mentioning
Keywords Google pulls out of its own reviews, with the number of reviews each one appears in. No review text is reproduced here.
How Google reviewers rated it
694 Google reviews in total, of which 14 (2%) are one or two stars. That last number is the one worth reading — a high average with a fat tail of one-star reviews usually means an inconsistent morning.
Listed features(15)
- Seating and service
- Onsite services · Takeout · Dine-in
- Parking
- Free parking lot · Free street parking
- Accessibility and facilities
- Wheelchair accessible entrance · Wheelchair accessible parking lot · Wheelchair accessible seating · Gender-neutral restroom
- Payment
- Credit cards · Debit cards · NFC mobile payments
- Inclusivity
- Identifies as women-owned · LGBTQ+ friendly · Transgender safespace
Google’s star counts stay Google’s. They are shown here as a distribution only — I do not fold them into my own score, I do not republish review text, and none of it goes into this page’s structured data.