SeaLifeSea Breeze Guide
RUAZENעב
← Where to stay at the resort
Costa CoffeeSea Breeze

The Brand

Costa Coffee: London, 1971

Everything in this section retells the “about us” page on the chain's official website in Azerbaijan. It's Costa's own story about itself, not an independently verified history.

  • 1971

    London, Fenchurch Street

    Brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa came to London to make good coffee part of everyday life and opened a small roastery.

  • 112

    Varieties Tested

    That's how many varieties the brothers went through before creating the blend they named Moka Italia. It remains the chain's signature blend: arabica and robusta.

  • 1978

    The Move to Lambeth

    Demand grew and the roastery moved to Old Paradise Street in South London. It operated there until 2017.

  • 1981

    The First Shop

    The first Costa café opened on Vauxhall Bridge Road. It was the first place in London to serve espresso and cappuccino in porcelain cups.

  • 2017

    Basildon, Essex

    The new roastery in the county of Essex is one of the largest in Europe: 45 000 tonnes of coffee a year, four times more than the old one.

  • 2023

    A Darker Roast

    Early in the year the chain roasted its signature blend darker: the flavor got richer, but, per Costa's own description, it kept its smoothness.

Beans

Where They Come From

all green beans come from Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms and arrive at the port of Tilbury, 14 miles from the roastery

The Moka Italia blend: arabica for smoothness and robusta for strength. That's how the chain itself describes it.

What This Means for a Cup at Sea Breeze

None of this can be checked on site: the guide doesn't know which beans this particular outlet uses or where they're shipped to Baku from. We're retelling what the chain says about itself.

The outlet's signature drinks and their prices are on the menu page.

Menu & Prices

Costa in Baku

Nine Outlets on the Chain's List

The footer of the chain's website lists its Baku outlets. We don't link to the site — that's the guide's rule; the site's name is given in text: costacoffee.az.

  • Socar Tower
  • Maiden Tower
  • GYD Airport T1
  • GYD Airport T2
  • Globus Center
  • Nargiz Mall
  • Daniz Mall
  • Ganjlik Mall
  • Port Baku 2

An Oddity Worth Knowing

The Sea Breeze outlet isn't on this list of branches, even though the same site has a separate “QR Menu SeaBreeze” page for it. No explanation is given.