As of September 3, 2025, it's official: Our new café at Basel SBB station will welcome you with more space, more light – and even more excellent coffee. If you're ever in Basel, come visit us at our new café.
Even our first café, spanning 38 square meters, was a dream for us. Because what could be better than welcoming people with good coffee right in the middle of the commuter rush? Precisely where things often have to move quickly, where coffee is made in bulk but rarely with quality – that's where we wanted to show what's possible when you take coffee seriously.
The fact that Basel SBB station trusted us six years ago to realize this first café fills us with great gratitude to this day. And we are all the more delighted that we have been able to further develop this location: A new meeting point has been created across 85 square meters of floor space plus 40 square meters of gallery space. A café that is a place to linger, but also optimized to quickly provide coffee during the commuter rush. And the new café is also a small coffee shop with roasted coffee and accessories.
From To-Go Coffee to a Café for Lingering
Our first KM-Café opened shortly before the pandemic. Not an ideal moment. But with your support, we mastered that time, and our café became a daily coffee stop for many commuters. Soon, more and more travelers also came with the desire to be able to sit down during longer layovers. The to-go café became a place of encounter.
However, with only six seats, lingering remained difficult. We are now breaking through this limitation: More than 40 indoor seats and additional outdoor seating, plenty of space to breathe – whether for a quick date, a focused business meeting, or a moment of peace in everyday life.
More than a Café: Coffee Knowledge & Water Refill Station
Our new café is also a shop for coffee beans, accessories, and brewing equipment – and a place where we directly share our knowledge.
A special highlight: our coffee water refill station. Home baristas can get perfectly prepared water for their espresso machine or filter coffee for free here. Sounds specific? But it's essential. Over 90% of all espresso machine defects are due to excessively hard water.
Three Espresso Machines Instead of One
The choice of espresso machines occupied us for many months. As testers of espresso machines, we are familiar with both high-quality devices for home use and machines developed for the catering sector.
In our coffee school, we work with six professional catering machines – each as expensive as a small car. And yet, we constantly stand before these machines and think: The espresso from good home machines regularly tastes better.
Espresso machines for home baristas have evolved enormously in recent years. Pressure and flow profiles are standard on the best machines. This allows for precise and individual brewing of various coffees, tailored to their specific character. The catering industry has largely missed this development.
Therefore, we consciously chose three espresso machines that were originally designed for home use. Our selection focused on models with professional components that are also powerful in continuous operation. The new café in the station is equipped with three Sanremo Yous.
This decision brings numerous advantages, and we are convinced it will set a trend. If one machine fails, two others are ready. This ensures redundancy and operational reliability – unlike in many cafés where the entire service comes to a halt due to a technical defect.
Moreover, our setup enables flexible operation: As the café empties towards evening, we can clean and shut down the first machine. This saves electricity, working time, and costs. Efficiency, sustainability, and quality go hand in hand here.
Our setup is complemented by a freestanding Modbar milk wand for flexible frothing and a milk dispenser that delivers chilled milk in exactly the required amount – resource-efficient, hygienic, and economical.
A Place That Shows What We Do
- How does the roasting curve change the taste?
- Which brewing recipe do we recommend for a filter coffee?
- What is the CO₂ footprint of a coffee from Honduras?
We answer such questions daily – not just online or in courses, but directly in the café.
Every Wednesday evening, a workshop or lecture takes place in the gallery. Topics include:
These events are designed by our team: by roasters, barista trainers, and our crew from the academy, bakery, and roastery. They bring their knowledge directly to you – approachable, practical, and with great passion.
Architecture, Craftsmanship, Atmosphere
The station is a place of commuting. Many shops are functionally built, often artificially lit, and the windows are covered.
Our café is the opposite. Open, bright, made of wood. We didn't shut anything off; instead, we invited people in. Together with our carpenters, we built a gallery made of light, glazed wood. The entire café is the opposite of the often repetitive shop designs of system catering.
And more: We built the place ourselves. Our team sanded tables, built shelves, constructed the bar. The front was tiled by a friend. Nothing about it is standardized; everything was created by hand and with heart.
This is no coincidence but part of our idea. We like to design ourselves. We learn. We experiment. And we share what we learn. This attitude runs through all our work – in the roastery, in the academy, on the farm, and in the café.
Café with a Purpose
All products we offer in the café are carefully selected: whenever possible, regional and from small and family businesses, with high ecological standards. As a purpose-driven company, this attitude is not an accessory but part of our DNA.
We offer organic oat milk from the Gutsch cooperative. Our milk comes directly from the organic producer in Reigoldswil. We source our tea from Länggass. We bake ourselves. We cook our compote with fruit from the region.
Opening & Opening Hours
On Tuesday, September 2, 2025, we say goodbye to the temporary setup.
On Wednesday, September 3, at 6:00 AM, we open the new KM-Café at Basel SBB station.
We look forward to welcoming you there.
Opening Hours:
Monday to Friday: 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Come by. Try our coffees. Look around. And say hello.
We look forward to seeing you!
