Yard Coffee & Craft Chocolate: It's all about the bean
At Yard Coffee & Craft Chocolate, father and son team up to bring bean-to-bar chocolate desserts and specialty coffee to Osaka's Tennoji neighborhood.
Vaughan Allison: Transforming nonessentials into essentials
Vaughan Allison on why his blood is black, his best concert memory and the most underrated area in Tokyo.
Single O: Creating next-generation, climate-resilient coffees
Through its No Death to Coffee project, which launched in 2018, Single O and its Tokyo-based outpost, Single O Japan, hope to ensure there will always be enough coffee to drink sustainably in the future.
Starbucks' Reserve Roastery Tokyo is a 'coffee wonderland'
Starbucks' 3,000-square-meter Reserve Roastery Tokyo goes above and beyond in embracing local Japanese design and aesthetics, not to mention an unwavering commitment to coffee.
Starbucks Corp. said Wednesday it is opening a four-story, high-end roastery in central Tokyo featuring a bar and lounge, its fifth such outlet worldwide. The Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo is set to open Thursday in the capital's trendy Nakameguro district. Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, well-known ...
Ethiopian coffee farmers are betting on blockchain to make trade fairer and boost business
On a bustling street near the shiny new international airport in Ethiopia's capital is a small coffee roastery with big dreams. Nearly 40 Ethiopians — a third of them women — sift, roast and package prized Arabica beans for export to Europe under the Moyee ...
Local upstart Luckin Coffee takes on U.S. rival Starbucks in China
When Starbucks came to China two decades ago, it promised to open a new store every 15 hours. Now a homegrown rival, Luckin Coffee, plans to build a high-tech shop every 3½ hours to dethrone the U.S. giant. The Chinese upstart is burning through millions ...
Warming and deforestation threatening coffee species, including Ethiopia's Arabica, scientists warn
Climate change and deforestation are putting more than half the world's wild coffee species at risk of extinction, including the popular commercial coffees Arabica and Robusta, scientists warned on Wednesday. Research published by experts at Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew found that current conservation ...
35Coffee: An inspired partnership between coffee and coral
35Coffee is using the profits from its coffee sales to plant new coral across Okinawa Prefecture
Simplicity rules in Starbucks' seasonal sesame creations
Starbucks Japan's "Japan Wonder Project" offers a nice snapshot of the nation's soft-power campaigns in general. This campaign, which has been going on for over a year now, celebrates Japanese flavors. The range is mostly consumed, though, by Japanese people, already familiar with the ...
The third-wave coffee boom has resulted in a new wave of java-related Japanese vocabulary
Coffee talk is more than just cream and sugar when it comes to cafes that specialize in third-wave coffee.
