Café
1. Al Farah
A popular family-owned Middle Eastern bakery restaurant in Al Khalidiyah, known for manaqeesh and fresh bread from the oven and listed in the Michelin Guide.
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2. Arabian Tea House
A courtyard café in the Al Fahidi heritage quarter serving Emirati breakfasts, karak tea and traditional sweets under a large central tree.
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3. Australia Dairy Company
A famous Jordan cha chaan teng running for more than 50 years, known for creamy scrambled eggs on thick buttered toast, steamed milk puddings and famously brisk service.
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4. Barefoot Garden Café
The courtyard café behind Barefoot's Galle Road shop, serving daily specials, sandwiches and drinks, with Sunday jazz sessions that have run for about 20 years.
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5. Cafe Giang
The family café where egg coffee was invented in 1946, still run by the founder's son in an alley off Nguyen Huu Huan Street in the Old Quarter.
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6. Chye Seng Huat Hardware
Specialty coffee bar and roastery in a former hardware shop on Tyrwhitt Road, one of the cafés that shaped Singapore's third-wave coffee scene.
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7. Dou Brew Coffee & Craft
A specialty coffee bar on Soi Romanee that roasts Thai arabica on site, is known for nitro cold brew and makes bean-to-bar chocolate from Thai cacao.
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8. Glitch Coffee & Roasters
A Jimbocho roastery-café serving light-roasted, single-origin specialty coffee designed to bring out the character of each origin.
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9. Habibah Sweets
The original Downtown kunafa counter, serving Habibah's famous warm Nabulsi kunafa in its alley since 1951, with queues of locals at all hours.
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10. Inoda Coffee Honten
The flagship of a Kyoto coffee house founded in 1940, serving nel-drip coffee and breakfast from 7:00 in a townhouse-style building with more than 200 seats.
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11. Kyani & Co.
Around 120 years old and described as Mumbai's oldest operating Irani cafe, serving bun maska, Irani chai, keema pav and cherry custard near Marine Lines.
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12. La Cabra Al Qurum
The first Oman branch of the Danish coffee roaster and bakery, serving specialty coffee, sourdough and handmade pastries in Al Qurum from 7am daily.
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13. Lao She Teahouse
A traditional-style Qianmen teahouse named after the writer Lao She, serving tea and snacks by day and staging Peking opera and folk arts shows in the evening.
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14. Little Red Fox Espresso
A speciality coffee café open since late 2014, blending Australian café culture with Cambodian touches, known for espresso, cold drip and simple breakfasts.
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15. Maison Marou Saigon
The flagship café of Marou, the Vietnamese bean-to-bar chocolate maker founded in 2011, serving chocolate drinks, cakes and French-style pastries on Calmette Street.
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16. Marufuku Coffee Sennichimae Honten
Osaka's classic coffee house, founded in 1934, serving extra-rich drip coffee and copper-plate pancakes in a tiled, antique-furnished shop in Sennichimae.
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17. Onion Seongsu
The original branch of the Onion bakery café, set in a stripped-back 1970s building in Seongsu that once housed a factory, known for pandoro and butter breads.
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18. Pumpernickel Bakery
A long-running Thamel bakery with a garden courtyard, known for fresh brown bread, croissants and its yak cheese sandwich, served to trekkers since the early 1980s.
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19. Reaching Out Tea House
A calm tea house on Tran Phu Street staffed by speech- and hearing-impaired people, where you order in writing and taste Vietnamese teas in near silence.
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20. Ristr8to
Dark, compact Nimmanhaemin coffee bar opened in 2011 by Arnon Thitiprasert, the 2017 World Latte Art Champion, known for milk drinks and signature creations.
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