Best Cafes in Cuenca for Digital Nomads, Cuenca, Ecuador

One thing Ecuador (except perhaps for Guayaquil) certainly has got right is the café culture. Compared to Peru, where cool cafés outside of big cities could be quite hard to find, in Ecuador we found that even the smaller towns had at least one decent place that served coffee, cake and wifi: the perfect combination for digital nomads like us!

And nowhere was this trifecta more abundant than in the southern city of Cuenca, which has a large expat community, mostly from the United States, and many, though not all of the best cafés in town are run or owned by foreigners.

Here are our four favourite places to have a drink, snack and maybe brunch while working away on our laptops.

This is the place to come for your Austro-German cake fix: apple strudel, Guglhupf and Linzerschnitte are served in a old world coffee house style ambiance, as well as salads, light snack, lunch menus and healthy smoothies (beetroot, spinach, carrot, orange and ginger, anyone?). Recent copies of Der Spiegel as well as local newspapers are available to browse. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).