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A four-floor, Kengo Kuma–designed coffee cathedral in Nakameguro with its own roasting floor, a cocktail bar, a tea room, and a Milanese bakery — one of the largest Starbucks Reserve Roasteries on Earth.
A weathered 1960s apartment block on Saigon's walking street where nearly every flat has become a café or boutique — nine floors of coffee, one balcony-stacked facade.
Down a narrow Old Quarter alley hides the café where egg coffee was invented in 1946 — a Metropole bartender's answer to a milk shortage, still whisked by his family today.