• Best cafés

    The Top 10 Coffee Houses of Tokyo

    After The Best Coffee Houses of Osaka, we are going to investigate the capital city of Japan in terms of cafes and coffee culture. Though Dutch traders shipped the first cargos of coffee to Japan in the 17th century, the first coffee house only opened in 1888 in the Land of the Rising Sun. The Japanese modeled their coffee houses after European salons, destined as a place for people to come together and share their ideas. After a while, more and more Tokyo coffee shops opened. While some adopted the lively and social salon model, others set the goal of ensuring peace and quiet for students and workers. Such kissaten…

  • Best cafés

    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…