Still – Issue 00: Lisbon

A Coffee Table Mags pick for those who think about coffee the way others think about wine — Still. goes deeper into one city, one cup, one industry than anyone else dares.

A print magazine exploring coffee beyond the cup, through the people, spaces, and systems that shape it.

Still. is anchored in a different city each issue, using it as a point of entry into a wider reality. It looks at how coffee is lived, built, and experienced within a specific context, while opening onto broader questions beyond it.

Lisbon has become one of the most rapidly evolving coffee scenes in Europe. A city where traditional cafés coexist with a new generation rethinking space, taste, and hospitality. What emerges is not a single narrative, but different approaches to coffee.

This issue explores that through the people shaping the scene and the spaces redefining it. Through architecture, design, and new ways of inhabiting cafés, Lisbon becomes a way to look beyond the surface.

Alongside the city focus, the magazine expands into broader questions shaping coffee today. Essays on value distribution and pricing, explorations of fermentation and innovation, conversations on water and taste, and personal narratives that trace the human side of the industry.

Still. is a print-only, bi-annual magazine exploring coffee as a system. Technical, cultural, and lived.

Inside This Issue

Explore the Lisbon coffee scene through the people and spaces redefining it, from independent cafés to new concepts shaping how coffee is experienced.

Look at coffee processing as infrastructure, through experiments in fermentation and the systems required to support them at origin.

Examine gender and inclusion in coffee through the lived realities of women working across the industry in Kenya.

Rethink what defines quality through a conversation on water, taste, and the limits of standardization.