Mozart's World Coffee Fest 2025
- Kimi's Travel Thoughts
- Oct 14
- 4 min read
October 2025 Monthly Adventure
I'm always looking for things that are new and get me outside of my comfort zone just a bit. I prefer tea over coffee as evidence by my excitement to do an elevated tea service on the cruise I took at the beginning of the year. However, I'm not opposed to trying coffee. While I am not a coffee drinker, I do know that I prefer to drink coffee from a local coffee shop if I am going to have a cup. Mozart's Coffee Roasters has become my coffee shop of choice in Austin through the years. It's been a while since my last visit there, so Mozart's World Coffee Fest was the perfect opportunity to make my return!
Background
I've been going to Mozart's Coffee Roasters since I got to Austin thanks to some friends in undergrad taking me there one weekend shortly after we met on campus. The location on the lake, the quality of the coffee, and the delicious options for baked goods made it my favorite coffee shop to take family and friends to. They also host a variety of events throughout the year. I am signed up for their emails and I always look forward to seeing what they have scheduled for the upcoming weeks. This month, they had a free World Coffee Fest planned and, as a person that is willing to explore coffee, decided to attend. Perhaps I will finally discover if there is a particular roast, blend, or crafted cup of coffee that makes me become a fan of the drink!
Mozart's World Coffee Fest Experience
After parking in the lot across the street from Mozart's Coffee Roasters, I could hear the sound of live music as part of the coffee festival's corresponding world music performances. My arrival was just at the start of a West African Dance Workshop taught by Bramaya. I picked up a coffee passport from the welcome tent and got in line for coffee tasting.
While in line, I was able to get some glimpses of the dance workshop and desperately wanted to move to the beat. However, I'm a terrible dancer and it was too hot outside to move. The line was quite long for coffee tasting and wasn't moving hardly at all. The booths were divided up by drink type and region. For example, the first booth had drinks from India while another had coffee from Yemen and other booths had samples of coffee Central America and South America. Depending on the region featured at the booth, there were sometimes about 2-3 types of coffee to sample with each representing a country from the region. In addition to the free coffee samples, there were free coffee roasting demonstrations occurring throughout the day. These roasting demos were about 15 minutes long and each one came with a sample of coffee beans.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to taste any of the free coffee samples or go to the roasting demonstration that I signed up for. I stood in line for nearly an hour and never got close to the first booth and missed my coffee roasting demo time. I think people were just standing at the booths (which were set up to create a single-file line) and trying the coffee and asking questions, and those that were just sampling coffee and didn't have questions remained where they were in line instead of moving ahead to the next booth. Mozart's eventually did away with the line after realizing more people were in attendance for the coffee festival than expected. However, that was a bit chaotic because it became a free for all and people that were in line at the booths were still trying to stay in line while everyone that had been in the back part of the line waiting to get to the booths were trying to make their way to the free coffee samples. I had other plans and decided to leave the coffee festival for the other activities I had planned for the day because standing in line took up too much of my time.
Wrap-Up
Although the coffee festival was scheduled for the entire weekend, I also had Sunday plans that kept me from making a second attempt at sampling coffee. I didn't get to take in the full experience of Mozart's Wold Coffee Fest as I had hoped, but it wasn't necessarily a bad experience. The people in line around me were all super chill and we were all trying to work together to decipher the coffee sampling line. I got to enjoy some good music while I was there which included the start of a great performance by Maestro Gourisankar & Indradeep Ghosh - Indian Violin-Tabla as I was making my way back to my car. While this event didn't work out for me as intended and I still have yet to find a coffee that makes me a fan of the drink, I can always try again in the future. Plus, Mozart's hosts plenty of other events that I can check out this month or any other time!
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