Caffé Ducali

SPECIALTY

Causeway Street

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Caffé Ducali is a specialty coffee shop located in Boston. Check in here with the Pulled Coffee app to earn real cash rewards. Specialty shops count toward all challenges including Pulled 50, Pulled 100, and Pulled 300.

Caffe Ducali sits at 287 Causeway in the West End, the espresso bar attached to Ducali Pizzeria right at the entrance to the North End. The name pulls from I Ducali, the nickname for the Parma soccer club tied to the city's old duchy. The bar runs hot and iced espresso drinks, a daily rotating pastry, and breakfast sandwiches in the morning, then shifts into panini, salads, and Roman-style pizza al taglio cut by the slice from the Ducali kitchen. Hours run weekdays 7 to 4 and weekends 8 to 4. The room is sleek and modern, with North End traffic and TD Garden crowds cycling through depending on the day. Order an iced espresso and a slice of pizza al taglio if you want the lunch the Causeway regulars order. Order a hot espresso and the morning pastry if you want the cafe before the game day rush.

About Boston

Boston specialty coffee built itself around small rooms and tight bar discipline. Flat Black opened on Dorchester Avenue in Lower Mills in 2003 and has grown into the largest independently owned roaster in the city, running around twenty rotating single origins with espresso dialed for body. Gracenote Coffee opened on Lincoln Street in Boston's Leather District in 2012, a standing-room espresso bar on the edge of Chinatown founded by Patrick Barter, a Maine native with a digital-music and percussion background, with Alessandro Bellino. The shop is small by design, white brick and natural wood.

The neighborhood map runs the central peninsula. The North End holds Thinking Cup on Hanover Street, the first downtown Boston cafe to serve Stumptown Coffee exclusively, with beans shipped from the Brooklyn roastery within days of each roast. The West End covers Caffe Ducali at 287 Causeway, attached to Ducali Pizzeria right at the entrance to the North End. Back Bay runs Jaho's flagship at 116 Huntington Avenue, the largest of Jaho's Boston rooms, splitting between cafe and a separate lounge with a fireplace and a circular marble bar that seats sixteen. Rowes Wharf carries Dandelion Coffee and Provisions inside the Boston Harbor Hotel, a marble-clad room with the water visible through the glass.

The wider region reaches north of the city. Little Wolf Coffee on High Street in Ipswich, about forty minutes from Boston, runs a Probat UG22 roaster behind garage doors next to the cafe, with Chris and Melissa roasting since 2016. The result is a tight working network of 73 specialty rooms across Boston proper, with espresso discipline that runs deep and a clear North End-to-Back Bay geography.