A small coffee roastery and bar in Nakagyo, a few minutes from Nishiki Market, operating at the pace of a place that has decided what it is and stopped thinking about it. The espresso and filter coffees are from their own roasting programme; the space is compact, counter-facing, with a quality of attention that is common in Kyoto's better coffee shops — the transaction is taken seriously without being made into an event. The neighbourhood around it — machiya townhouses, narrow lanes, the low hum of the central city — is the correct context.
Nakagyo, Kyoto, Japan