Today, Tuesday April 21st is officially International Moka Day. What has historically been the sort of Boxing Day for National Cold Brew Day, April 21st now has a coffee holiday in its own right and it is in celebration of one of the oldest and most iconic brewing methods ever created, the Moka pot.
It’s a full on Moka moment. Sprudge officially declared 2025 The Year of the Moka Pot, due to the classic Italian brewer seeing a host of playful innovations on a design that has otherwise gone unchanged since its inception in 1933. There were modern art ones, bird ones, thermodynamic ones, automatic ones, brand collab ones, you name it. I’m not saying it was our dubbing of 2025 as The Year of the Moka Pot that led to the creation of International Moka Day, but I cannot deny it as a possibility either. (Or maybe it was the dancing Moka pots at this year’s winter Olympics opening ceremony.)
This newest coffee holiday is the creation of who else but Bialetti, the company behind the original Moka pot. It was created as a way to celebrate the brewer with over half a billion units sold worldwide, one that is still found in over 90% of all Italians households to this day.
And International Moka Day is as much about coffee as it is design. April 21st was chosen specifically because it coincides with both World Creativity and Innovation Day as well as the the opening of Milan Design Week 2026.
“The Moka is a timeless object, present in homes around the world,” states Bialetti’s Chief Marketing and Design Officer Alessio Gianni. “Its strength lies in its simplicity. For nearly a century, it has brought coffee into everyday life and continues to connect generations. Moka Day is about recognizing how good design, in its simplest form, can shape culture. Above all, it is a way of saying thank you to the millions of people who, every day, use the Moka and share it with the ones they love.”
Per the press release, International Moka Day celebrations will be hosted around the world, including at Roscioli in New York. The Roman eatery in Greenwich Village will be doing a one-night Moka pot takeover, whereby every coffee will be served “exclusively using the original Bialetti Moka, transforming a familiar end-of-meal gesture into a visible, shared ritual across the entire dining room.” During the service, each guest will receive a complimentary Moka coffee post-dinner, served in signature Bialetti cups. There will also be “a limited number of 1-cup Bialetti Moka pots gifted throughout the evening (while supplies last).”
So dust off that Moka pot and make yourself a nice espresso-like beverage. No need to dose out coffee exactingly or weigh anything really. Just scoop in some coffee, add a little water, and go by feel. You probably won’t make it as well as the nonna who has been refining the exact same ritual every day for 50 years but we’ve all got to start somewhere. And it may as well be for International Moka Day.
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
