Caoba Farms

What Caoba Farms does

Caoba Farms is a privately held, single-location farm-to-table hospitality business operating since 2004 from 5a. Avenida Sur Final #6, Antigua Guatemala, with a headcount of 8 employees. The company combines four functional lines on one site: an on-site restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and limited evening service; an artisan bakery producing sourdough and organic wheat breads baked in wood-fired ovens; a small working farm supplying produce to the kitchen and retail customers; and the Villa Valhalla event space available for private rentals. The technical foundation is traditional rather than digital: on-site organic cultivation of wheat and vegetables, a maintained sourdough starter culture, and wood-fired ovens for cooking and baking, with no proprietary software, platform, or AI capabilities disclosed.

The business operates a direct-to-consumer model with no intermediated distribution. Customers purchase on premises at the restaurant counter, the bakery counter, or by booking Villa Valhalla for events; an additional farm-product catalog (last refreshed October 2025) supports direct retail purchase of on-site grown produce. The customer base is described as local Antigua residents and tourists, segmented horizontally rather than by enterprise or contract tier, with bilingual (Spanish/English) website support indicating explicit pursuit of international tourist demand. An "Actividades" program adds cooking classes, farm tours, farmers markets, and volunteering as supplementary service lines.

Caoba Farms has no disclosed external funding, no parent company, no institutional investors, and no acquisitions or partnerships on record. The revenue model is purely transactional, with three streams — restaurant food service, artisan bakery sales, and event space rental — none of which carry publicly disclosed pricing. Marketing is conducted through the company's website and customer testimonials, and the website displays a "Certificado de Excelencia" style recognition badge, suggesting third-party reputation-based positioning. The business is wholly owned and operated locally, with no app, no API, and no digital product surface beyond the Weebly-hosted website.

Name

Caoba Farms

Legal name

Caoba Farms

Website

https://caobafarms.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Caoba Farms operates a single-location farm-to-table restaurant and artisan bakery in Antigua, Guatemala, serving local residents and tourists with organic on-site-grown food, sourdough breads, and event space rentals under a direct-to-consumer model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Farm-to-Table Restaurant and Artisan Bakery

NAICS

Retail Bakeries (311811), Special Food Services (7223)

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812), Bakery Products (2050), Agricultural Production-Crops (100)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTHAFAFAD

Artisan & Specialty Bakeries (Sourdough, Heritage Grains)

Travel & Hospitality/Foodservice & Beverage (Restaurants, Cafes, Bars)/Bakeries & Patisseries

SECONDARYTHAJAGAK

Farm-to-Table & Agritourism Dining Experiences (Farm Visits, Harvest Meals)

Travel & Hospitality/Tours, Attractions & Experiences/Food & Drink Experiences (Culinary Tours, Tastings, Cooking Classes)

SECONDARYCRAHAGAO

Farmstead & Local Artisan Food Markets (Retail Shops)

Consumer Products & Retail/Grocery & Food Retail/Specialty Food Stores (Deli, Cheese, Gourmet, Bakery)

Keywords

• Farm-to-table restaurant
• Artisan bakery
• Organic hospitality
• Private event venue
• Culinary tourism

Headquarters

HQ city

Antigua Guatemala

HQ country

Guatemala

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Food Service: On-site dining at the restaurant offering breakfast, lunch, and selected evening meals. Menu includes salads, hamburgers, pizzas, and other dishes prepared with fresh farm ingredients and cooked in wood-fired ovens.
2. Artisan Bakery Products: Fresh artisanal bread and baked goods sold to customers, including sourdough breads, whole wheat breads, baguettes, brioche, cheese and chorizo bread, and smoked bacon bread. Products made with sourdough starter and organic wheat from the farm.
3. Event Space Rental: Private event venue rental for birthdays, work meetings, and other occasions. Contact via email or WhatsApp for reservations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Caoba Farms operates a farm-to-table restaurant and artisanal bakery at a single location in Antigua, Guatemala, serving breakfast, lunch, and selected evening meals prepared with ingredients grown on the farm and cooked in wood-fired ovens. The bakery sells sourdough and other artisan breads made with organic wheat cultivated on the property. The site also hosts educational activities and rents out Villa Valhalla as a private event venue.

Product overview

Caoba Farms is a single-location farm-to-table hospitality business combining a restaurant, artisan bakery, working farm, and event venue in Antigua, Guatemala. The core offering consists of the Restaurante & Panaderia serving organic food prepared with ingredients from their own farm, featuring sourdough breads and wood-fired cooking. The farm also produces fresh agricultural products for sale, and the property hosts educational activities including classes, tours, and farmers markets, as well as Villa Valhalla for private event rentals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Restaurante & Panadería (Restaurant and Artisan Bakery) Farm-to-table restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and selected evening meals including salads, hamburgers, and pizzas cooked in wood-fired ovens, paired with an on-site artisan bakery producing sourdough and other breads made with organic wheat from the farm. Open Wednesday through Monday with extended Sunday hours until 9pm. Offers gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan options.
• Productos de la Granja (Farm Products)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Levain Bakery: NYC-based artisan bakery specializing in cookies and baked goods with a strong tourist and walk-in customer base. Comparable to Caoba as a small-format, destination artisan bakery with high brand recognition in its home market and a similar reliance on a single retail front.
• Josey Baker Bread: Boulder, Colorado artisan bakery and mill focused on sourdough and stone-milled heritage grains. Comparable to Caoba's bakery program in craft discipline (sourdough-first, heritage/organic flours), small-batch production, and farm-adjacent sourcing narrative.
• Tartine Bakery: Chad Robertson's iconic San Francisco bakery, famous for its country sourdough loaf built on a house starter and heritage flours. Closely comparable to Caoba in craft philosophy: a small artisan sourdough program built on slow fermentation, heritage grains, and a daily bake schedule that anchors the rest of the business.

Broad incumbents

• Sweetgreen: US fast-casual chain built around a farm-to-counter sourcing narrative and digitally native operations (app ordering, delivery, loyalty). Represents the scaled, tech-enabled version of Caoba's farm-sourced menu and a long-term competitive threat if such concepts expand into Central America.
• Boudin Bakery: Historic San Francisco sourdough bakery (founded 1849) operating a bakery-cafe format that combines fresh artisan bread with full restaurant service. A scaled, heritage analogue to Caoba's bakery-plus-restaurant model and the most direct example of the format at chain scale.
• Blue Hill at Stone Barns: Dan Barber's farm-to-table restaurant on a working farm in Pocantico Hills, NY. Operates the same 'farm-to-table' brand promise as Caoba—on-site farm feeds the kitchen—at much larger scale, and is the gold-standard reference point for the category Caoba occupies.
• Panera Bread: Large US bakery-cafe chain combining an artisan-leaning bakery counter with a limited-service restaurant menu. Represents the scaled, chain-format expression of Caoba's bakery-plus-restaurant concept and the competitive ceiling for category mainstreaming.
• Noma: René Redzepi's Copenhagen restaurant, the global benchmark for farm- and forage-driven cuisine. Shares Caoba's foundational principle that the menu should follow what is grown locally and seasonally, though at the extreme premium end of the category.

Regional players

• Finca Rosa Blanca: Costa Rica coffee farm and sustainability-certified inn with an on-site farm-to-table restaurant. Comparable to Caoba as a Central American farm property that monetizes agriculture through hospitality, dining, and experiences, though more lodging-weighted.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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