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Top 10 Best Cafés of Munich
Munich, the capital of Bavaria, Germany, is a beautiful place to live, and to visit. There are so many things to do here, this city is so vibrant and full of life, throughout the whole year. Munich is an old town, dating back to 12th century, and if history is your thing, Munich will not disappoint. Here you will see medieval churches like Frauenkirche, Peterkirche and many other. Don’t like medieval? There are some modern (dark) history sights too, the Dachau concentration camp, and the beer hall where Hitler attempted his putsch. If you love cars, and especially BMW, Munich is the place to be. BMW Welt and BMW Museum…
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The Top 10 Cafés of Beijing
Chinese people are not considered to be coffee lovers. That is statistically proven by the fact that, in average, they drink just four coffee cups per person, per year, which is significantly lower than the consumption rate of people living in Europe and America. However, the Chinese market is very big and ever growing, which makes it perfect for growing and developing coffee businesses. Also, the huge changes in terms of urbanization, as well as the ever growing number of Chinese people going overseas are things that are influencing the development of the culture of drinking coffee. Because the coffee is still new thing to the Chinese people who are…
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The 10 Best Cafés of Antalya
Like we mentioned in our Istanbul review, Turkey (read more about their coffee culture here) is the place where you can get some of the best coffee in the world. This southern city in Turkey is a great summer tourist place. With its Azure blue sea, golden beaches and world famous Turkish hospitality make this city a tourist paradise. Whatever you are doing while here, and there is a lot to do (driving quads, jeep safari, aqua parks), you will need to regain all of that spent energy. There are many ancient landmarks like Termessos or Kalcici, that takes time and energy to explore. Aqua parks are so much fun,…
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The Top 10 Cafés of New York
In our last article, we presented the best coffee houses of Paris. Now we investigate the coffee scene of the American megapolis, New York City. In recent years, the coffee fever has taken over New York and addresses serving good cups are multiplying and rivaling each other, making the classic Starbucks a chain now drowned among many specialty coffees. Coffee is a drink now popular among all Americans who constantly run in all the cafes of New York before going to work. There is no typical coffee house in New York. Indeed, this drink has many variations, besides the traditional espresso, obtained by pouring boiling water under pressure on roast and…
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The Top 10 Cafés of Manila
Last time we reviewed the rather diverse coffee houses of Vienna, but now let’s head over to the east and discover some of the more exotic places. Coffee culture in the Philippines has strong roots. The country is divided into 71 provinces, of which 63 produce coffee every year. Their most famous coffee product is the „Barako”, which is a very potent Liberica type of coffee principally grown in the lowland region of Batangas. Their other illustrious coffee specialty is called Kopi Luwak or civet coffee. In the 19th century, the Philippines was one of the biggest producers of Arabica coffee, but nowadays the 70 % of the 88,000 metric…
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The Top 10 Cafés of Rome
After investigating the best cafés of Mexico City, let us take you to a completely different area, to one of the historical places of Europe. Italy has always been an integrating culture and a civilization-creating country, even in the time of the Roman Empire. The Mediterranean climate provides a dense, strong and short coffee, which awakens you and keeps you active. This can be very useful under the hot sun, the racing heat and the immobile air. From this point of view, it is quite like Turkish coffee. However, the Italians use professional coffee machines that are constantly developed. They also play a decisive role in the creation of coffee…
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The Top 10 Cafés of London
After the coffee houses of Rome, Paris, and Berlin, what is the first big capital city that comes into your mind? To me, it’s definitely London and it was about time to review its finest cafés as well. We learned a lot from the English people. The fashion, the language, the breakfast, the tea afternoon, just to mention a few. But they also feel at home in coffee culture. They have a few hundred years of experience in this field. Coffee appeared in London at the end of the XVII. century, just as in other Western big cities. The citizens quickly got addicted to the black drink, which also became…
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The Top 10 Cafés of Johannesburg
The African continent is a major exporter of coffee, even though they do not consume much apart from the politicians. Africa produces 12% of the world’s coffee, according to figures from the International Coffee Organization (ICO). The market remains dominated by Ethiopia (39% of African production and 6.4 million bags of 60 kg of green coffee produced in 2015-2016) and Uganda (23% of production). Kenya was fifth with 5% of the market behind Côte d’Ivoire (13%) and Tanzania (6%). South Africa’s coffee scene is relatively young, but this does not mean necessarily bad. In fact, a major coffee revolution was taking place in the last decade. Today, there are many…
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The Top 10 Cafés of Berlin
After our romantic trip around the most exciting coffee houses of Paris, let’s move a bit to the northeast and take a closer look at Berlin, another huge capital city full of opportunities. The German capital was always famous for its lively nightlife, its history and its artistic richness. Less so for its cafes. Berlin was not that much known until now as a hot spot among the coffee aficionados. Today, there are more and more cafes and coffee bars in the German capital. This tendency is due to the most fervent supporters of what is known as “Third Wave Coffee”. They made a way of life of this sacred…
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The Top 10 Cafés of Brussels
Brussels, the European and Belgian capital is so fun, diverse and full of life! And it has been making a great progress in terms of coffee culture, already rivalling its little sister, Antwerp in the North, which has been always famous of her thriving coffee scene. In Brussels, coffees are usually sourced from co-ops and long-term partner farms, building a closer contact with them and keep on sharing knowledge and investments in education, infrastructure and other iniatives. However, Brussels is also quite controversial. Many people love it, others hate it. There are some tensions in the surroundings, since Wallonia and Flanders do not maintain the best imaginable relation with each…
