Best cafés
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The Top 10 Cafés of Osaka
After the diverse and exotic coffee houses of Manila, let’s travel further and learn more about the coffee culture of this hi-tech country. Japan is basically known for its tea, but surprisingly the country is now among the largest coffee consumers among the importing countries, the market is growing steadily. Coffee is relatively a new phenomenon in Japanese history. Japan isolated itself from the outside world from 1638 until 1853 (sakoku), Nagasaki was the only place which was accessible by foreign merchants. Dutch merchants were the only consumers of coffee in Japan and the Japanese did not appreciate the black drink right away. However, by the end of the isolation…
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The Top 10 Best Cafés of Athens
Did you know that Greece, among all countries in the world, holds an impressive spot in terms of coffee consumption and that, according to one study from 2015, has more than five kilos of annual coffee consumption per capita? Coffee in Greece is considered to be a big part of the daily life; it is more than a habit or a need – it’s a ritual. That’s why coffee shops in Greece are blooming, and there are two kinds you can find there: kafeteria and kafeneio. Kafeteria is a hip and urban place that brings together people that are less than 35 years old. Usually kafeteria turns into a bar…
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The Top 10 Cafés in Stockholm
In our latest article, we have seen The Best Cafés of London after a few other amazing European capitals, but that was only the beginning. There are so many notable big cities left in Europe that we need to discover, so let’s immediately head over to the next one: Stockholm. Of course, the temperature is pretty low in Sweden, especially during the wintertime: we all know that. So we are not surprised by the fact that one of the most popular drinks in the country is a hot drink, which warms the body up. In fact, Swedes are one of the biggest coffee consumers in the world. They even drink…
