At the end of the 19th century, a Mexican woman moved to Spain to visit her parents' country. Once in Madrid, dazzled by the life of this joyful and welcoming city, that woman whose real name nobody can remember finally settles there.

With a small fortune in his pocket and the desire to start a new life, he decides to start a business. He takes over a small shop on Madrid's Calle de Preciados and starts selling coffee there. Later the store will become known as La Mexicana. The coffee he sold was not his own, one of his main coffee suppliers was José Rodríguez, the grandfather of the current Director of La Mexicana, Iria Rodríguez.

José Rodríguez was orphaned when he was very young and began to work in the most varied jobs in order to survive. He bought beans in El Barco de Ávila and sold them in Madrid, he brought wine from Arganda and the priests bought it for him for mass. On one occasion a person paid him with a sack of coffee because he had nothing else to offer him and so he started his new job, roasting that coffee. In the beginning he did it by hand, in the backyard of his house, in a completely handmade way. The neighbors, seduced by the intense aroma, were his first customers and José's art of roasting coffee began to make him famous throughout the neighborhood.

La Mexicana and José collaborated for many years and their relationship was one of mutual appreciation and respect, so much so that the lady expressed her wish that he be the one to continue with his work in the store once she was gone. After much effort, little by little José acquired the business in the early 1930s. In this way, La Mexicana passed into the hands of the Rodríguez family.

From the year 79 and after the success of its first store, La Mexicana begins its expansion process, an expansion that occurs due to customer demand. Today we can find up to 16 establishments throughout Madrid, León and Toledo, and it is known in all these cities for the unmistakable aroma of its freshly roasted coffee.

Its success is such that the store on Preciados Street won the Guinness Award for Records for being the store that sells the most coffee in the world.

This is the particular story of a company, Cafés La Mexicana, which was created thanks to the effort of two people who were excited to obtain the best coffee.