ABOUT US

 

EXPLORE is not your typical coffee shop. It's designed for people with a different and more discerning perspective. EXPLORE is a themed café that unites nature, exploration, and adventure through photography and cinematography in a unique setting surrounded by nature. Unlike a traditional café, it's exclusively themed with music from the world's most award-winning and acclaimed documentaries and films, making our customers feel like they've stepped into another world. The café boasts a unique decor where every little detail has its purpose, including rare museum pieces, film props, photographs, and simply "knick-knacks" collected by the owners on expeditions and trips to different parts of the world.

To these modern expeditions, we've added the romantic feeling of the explorations undertaken by the great explorers who visited Chile over the last 500 years: Charles Darwin, James Cook, and Alexander von Humboldt, to name a few. This spirit is embodied in every corner of EXPLORE. Our goal is simply to take our guests out of their everyday reality and transport them to our little world "where reality meets fantasy."

 

That's why we also strive to offer our guests the finest coffee and tea in the world, brought to this island from the most renowned farms globally. The beans and leaves are carefully selected only from certified Fairtrade producers and processed in the same way before arriving directly at EXPLORE. Furthermore, at EXPLORE we do not offer single-use products such as straws, cups, or disposable containers, which reaffirms our philosophy that small changes can help make our planet a better world.

 

EXPLORE is located on Chiloé Island, in southern Chile, where the Patagonian channels begin in the South Pacific. Overlooking one of the world's most rugged coastlines, EXPLORE was founded with the spirit of offering modern explorers the opportunity to savor the finest coffee beans and aromatic tea leaves brought from the most exotic corners of the world, accompanied by top-quality pastries and other snacks, all prepared with organic products. As an added bonus, there is the opportunity to enjoy it all overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the temperate rainforest, which together form one of the most breathtaking landscapes. that can be seen in South America. Here you can observe the migration of whales, seabirds, migratory birds, etc. from the cafeteria, and on our trail you can see the mythical pudú, the Chilote fox, the guiña, and countless birds and plants of the southern forest in their natural habitat.