Hi everyone!! I am back here again writing this from home in Japan! It has been already few weeks gone since I came back! It is insane how time quickly flies!! I have been really relaxed and chilled enjoying my time with no job! It sounds like I am such a lazy man maybe I am just for now! haha I have plenty of time to organise this post so I am putting one up today!! Its part of another blog connected to the last one where I was in Tokyo for a day! I was around Shinjuku area for those who are not familiar with the specific place, it is basically the central of Tokyo and like a maze!! haha Well described yeah?? I remembered there is this coffee shop that I was curious to try, so I searched on Google and found out the location, headed there!! That is 'Blue Bottle Coffee'!! ![]() ここをクリックすると、編集できます。 This Brand is really famous and international, well-known across the world, having brunches in many countries for coffee lovers. In fact, there are several of them already established even in Japan. People seem to be appreciating the specialty coffee scene more than before. It has really simple and minimised logo but yet quite appealing in logo design of what they want to sell. I would definitely say this brand has created the first huge modern Specialty coffee shop trend. As soon as I got in, it was obvious that busy with customers and people are curious about what they are doing at the coffee bar. My first impression was this space is well-designed and so tidy and organised for staffs. Using classic, La marzocco Classic 3 group heads Major Mazzer Grinder It was quite hot and humid on that day, I wanted something chilled for my first coffee, I went for a cold brew!! They had all the espresso coffees and pourer as well!! I wanted to test their cold brew, so I chose the one! It came in a beautiful glass and the taste was just amazing!! really sweet and super smooth mouth-feel. I am so curious about the recipe for this cold brew but I'm sure they won't tell me,!! lol I enjoyed the coffee a lot, nice atmosphere, staffs are all friendly and welcoming. It was also attracting a large number of customers from other countries!! Whilst I was writing one, I had a chance to check out another outlet of this brand, but unfortunately, it was under refutnishment, so I couldn't get it! haha Twist of fate or I should have kept my eyes on it! Anyhow, it is getting bigger and bigger and more branches will be open in my opinion, it tells the popularity of this coffee. 100% recommended. There will still be another tokyo coffee shop I would like to share with. So Stay tuned!! Cheers!! Y
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Hi all! My hometown is getting cool down and going towards the end of summer which I am happy about as i want avoid Japanese extremely hot and humid summer! So I am glad it's going away for now although it'll be back next year!! haha So, I was in Tokyo for a day the other day, and making the most of the time there to visit as many specialty coffee shops as possible. For my second choice, I picked up the one called 'chop coffee' in Harajuku. As me and my friend were wandering and having a walk from Shibuya to Omotesando, it was a nice stroll and realised on the way there that there is a coffee shop I was interested to visit, so I quickly checked it on Google Map and resumed the walk to get to this place. It was off the main road where full of people and packed whereas, this little shop was on a little cute street and much quieter!! The shop is quite small as Tokyo is packed and not much space for a spacious place. The shop is really organised and operated great in a limited space! Apparently there is another shop of this closely where roasting takes place. So this one is more like an espresso bar and lots of take aways as there is a lot to see and check out on the same street! It also attracts loads of tourists as well as locals, english friendly coffee shop. One thing I particularly liked about this place is they already use Huskee cups for drink in instead of glass mugs I though it was environmentally friendly and good way to promoting sustainable coffee cup!! Espresso Machine ; La marzocco Linea PB Grinder ; Mahlkonig EK-43 I went for a flat white in this shop as well! It seems like they made the flat white in 12 oz cup, so it tasted quite milk for me, but really silky smooth, nicely textured milk it did have a flat white milk!! Espresso was also really balanced flavour!! Next time, I would like to visit the roastery shop where sell loads of retails and bigger environment. More coffee passionate guys!! There we go guys!! This is the wrap for this post! I went to a couple of more shops next day! There will be posts about those due to be up soon!! Cheers!! Y Hi all!! I am back here again to post another coffee shop article!! As I mentioned before on my last post, I am back in Japan (hopefully let's say 'temporarily' )! For the time being, I will take advantage of this time to travel and catch up with friends. But quite importantly, I should check out some nice coffee shops in Japan as well!! Since I have grown up my passion with coffee more whilst I was away in the UK (sometimes, some other countries ), I am highly curious what Japanese coffee scenes are like in here. I haven been looking into lots of places even when I was still in Brighton. I am genuinely surprised how many specialty coffee shops are in here particularly just in Tokyo. Anyways, as I have a plan to go to Tokyo for friend's reunion thing, I might as well taste some coffee there. I am actually not from Tokyo and my hometown is called Gunma. I got to Shibuya to meet up with my mate, but before that happened I had an hour of free time, so I checked on google map and found this place. It is called 'Fuglen' ! Check out that entrance!! How gorgeous does that look?! It is actually my very first specialty coffee shop visit in Tokyo, I felt like I am one of the coffee tourist in a way!! I was like, oh my god this looks really attractive! The house is looking a Japanese old traditional style and as if this is just one of the someone's private house or something. I don't have many pictures of inside the shop unfortunately as it was quite busy and felt a bit bad to capture other customers. However you can kind of see as soon as you walk into the shop, there is a full of vintage furniture and an amazing collections of those. The bar is so simply organized and tidy considering the fact they sell variety of alcohols, too!! The staffs are super friendly and seemed to handle English as well. Of course I used Japanese by the way!.lol Espresso machine ; LA Marzocco Strada Grinder ; Major Mazzer Now, who wants to know what I had? Classic flat white!! It was 550 yen which is around £4, so I guess it seems to be expensive and understandable price. I was sat outside, coz it was really nice and chilled quite busy and a bit loud inside. I can't really tell why I was so nervous when I first had a sip of this coffee, I felt weird drinking specialty coffee in Tokyo after I did for 2 years in Brighton, But anyway, coffee is coffee so I was like just do it and see how I feel. OMG. It was really tasty!!!! What a great flat white!! really silky smooth milk and great espresso. Latte art is also quite decent!! I felt like this is what I needed and It made up for my coffee loss from Brighton!! I was quite happy that I found this shop as my first one and made me discover more of these nice ones!! Apparently, there is another shop in Tokyo, so whenever you have chance, I would highly recommend to visit either one! They offer amazing coffees and also people are great and interior they use is fantastic too!!! Anyway, I went to a different shop after this, so that one will be up on here soon! Cheers!! Y Hi everyone! I am back in Japan now after the longest but the most amazing 2 years in the UK!! It's been mostly about coffee, coffee and coffee for me!! So, in the last post i was writing about the Alchemy coffee roaster which was the 3rd spot of the day in London when I went there for coffee trip. The one I am introducing is the 4th and very last one for that day!! It is called 'Kaffeine'.!! Again, it is located in the central of London and more towards the Hyde park area. This coffee shop actually has 2 locations and another is situated fairly close to this shop I visited, It is like 5 mins or so walk from this one. Although this is not the large and spacious shop, the space is nicely used and beautifully furnitured. A couple of big tables outside as well, really good for drinking coffees in a day like this day! They provide wifi useful for laptop work. I wasn't sure if there were power plugs. The food was displayed in an attractive way. It's got some pastries and sweets and cakes which always work good with coffees. I was overly caffeinated on this stop as this was my 4th shop of the day. However, i still wanted to try their coffee, so I ordered a flat white!! There it is! They were pulling some amazing shots, pairing their espresso machine and grinder with Victoria Arduino. The milk was so smooth and amazing texture, beautiful latte art as well! I quite like their china cup and sauce!! They look so cute!! Even though it was too much coffee, it still tasted great!!! Anyway, This is the last coffee blog post from London as I am back in Tokyo hopefully for the time being, i would like to visit specialty coffee shops in Japan and will share as many of them as possible. So you better all stay tuned to this!!! Cheers! Y |
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10月 2019
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