Sonata Tostadores

Sonata Tostadores is a small Mexican specialty roaster operating out of CDMX, best known for a tight focus on Oaxacan single origins. The signature lot is Santiago Nuyoo — a high-altitude coffee from the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, often roasted by Sonata to bring out delicate jasmine and orange profiles rare in Mexican coffee.

The project is roaster-led: Sonata distributes through several specialty bars across CDMX, supplies wholesale clients, and runs retail bag sales through its own channels. The producer relationships are deep, with farm-level traceability on every bag and rotating micro-lots through the harvest year.

Sonata sits firmly in the producer's-roaster category — bag-first rather than café-first. If you've had a notable Mexican single origin in a CDMX specialty bar over the past few years, there's a decent chance Sonata roasted it.

The right stop for anyone who wants to taste what the next layer of Mexican specialty looks like — small operators raising the bar on origin transparency, lot-level care, and producer partnerships.