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In these cafes, you can drink curiosity and imagination | the new coffee shop in Shanghai

Coffee drinkers are actually very happy to live in Shanghai.

It has the largest number of cafes in the country, and the number is still growing. 🐧 has updated the coffee map of Shanghai four times this year, but the speed of writing still can't keep up with the speed of opening stores.

Taking advantage of the tail of 2017, we went to the new cafe and not only met some delicious new shops, but also found many new things and new ideas that were emerging. Making coffee can be as wonderful as making cocktails? How blurred can the boundaries of cafes be?

The New year is coming. Go to these new cafes with Mr. Penguin and have a cup of "new" coffee.

1 | O. P. S

Open mind,Possibility, Space

This summer, a small shop of ten square meters opened on Taiyuan Road. The shop is often crowded, and across a production table, the barista will chat with you from time to time, as casually and naturally as if he were in a friend's kitchen.

I have been there several times in more than half a year. The menu is always simple, but the drinks are rotated with the season. There is cold extraction in summer, lemon plays the leading role, and in winter there is cooking around the stove and eggnog latte, which is warm just by listening to the name.

Mandarin duck is the South African national treasure tea is ground and mixed with coffee powder, the mixed powder with tobacco and seaweed aroma. After extraction, pour in the milk, sweet and round. The whole cup of drink is very low in caffeine (Guobao tea does not contain caffeine) and feels particularly suitable for winter nights.

The inspiration for cooking around the stove is probably from hot red wine, which tastes sweeter with Ethiopian cold extract instead of red wine. Cinnamon cloves boil a soft sweetness, with soft apple aromas that blend well with the floral and fruity aromas of cold coffee. Around the small stove, have a drink in winter, all of a sudden warm up.

Eggnog latte, mixed with wine, coffee, milk and brown sugar. Although whisky is added, the entrance is not strong, but a bit like a wine with a unique flavor. It is said that the cup shape has also been adjusted according to the opinions of the guests.

This shop has never been short of imagination and curiosity, for the two baristas, a certain cocktail drunk in the bar, milk tea drunk abroad. Can give them a flash of inspiration.

It is rare that we are determined to innovate without neglecting the taste. Know enough about each coffee and respect it enough to make such a unique and approachable coffee bar.

2 | Oha Cafe

A model of flavored lattes

When we went to the restaurant this time, we came across many seasonal sweet-scented osmanthus lattes and ginger lattes. How about drinking? Syrup is syrup and latte is latte, which is detached from each other in appearance and often too sweet and greasy, making people stay away from the "flavor latte".

What changed us was the Oha Cafe cups.

Rose cappuccino, using handmade rose sauce from Guizhou, the latte is sweet with roses, and occasionally tastes broken petals, sweetness restraint, liquid smoothness, like a latte with rose sweetness!

Because the menu was simple, we rolled it all (again), and the ginger latte and caramel fig latte were textbook models. The flavor modulation is integrated with the latte, which is not noisy and distinctive.

Basil puffs are also recommended. A chubby puff can be stuffed into your mouth with one bite, and the fragrance of lemon will stay in your mouth for a long time.

3 | N °COFFEE elemental coffee

The creative coffee lab next to the gym

The Elemental Cafe is an open coffee space next to the gym. After working out in the morning, many people will come here to grab a cup of coffee and start a new day full of energy.

The shopkeeper is two energetic big boys who can often be heard discussing, adjusting the formula and banging on the details. The open atmosphere makes it look like a relaxing coffee lab.

Two types of creative coffee are available in the store. One is called Orange, which is said to be inspired by ipa Beer and hopes to taste fruit and hops in its coffee. American coffee with homemade syrup tastes a bit like sparkling water, with aromas of oranges and hops, with a little bitterness and rich layers.

The second is called Chai Latte, which, unlike a regular tea latte, contains coffee. Spices and milk, mixed with espresso, taste very soft, can drink ginger, cinnamon and other spices, as well as nuts, milk chocolate silky feel.

4 | Autumn Snow Autumn snow

Coffee is part of the aesthetics of life.

Qiuxue is not a cafe in the strict sense. The white hut stood quietly in the garden, with luxuriant vegetation and warm sunshine. When walking through the courtyard, I would be stunned for a moment and forget that I was still in the middle of Huaihai Road, the busiest road in Shanghai.

The menu is very simple, with only hand-brewed coffee and passion fruit sparkling water for drinks. What is rare is that the coffee beans are baked by the shop owner Lesser Snow, the green coffee beans occasionally crackle on the hand net, and the room is filled with the aroma of fried nuts. It takes 9 minutes to bake at a time, and the amount is very small, so it is a manual work.

The entrance of Sidamo in the sun is like fruit tea, which melts to the bottom of my heart in two words: comfortable. The coffee here can make people feel the emotion that the host pours into it.

There are many cups and trays in the cabin, each of which is handmade. Most of these handmade works come from Lesser Snow's friends. "only by touching can you realize the beauty of handmade works." Lift a clay cup and feel the temperature of the cup through the rough gravel surface.

The weather is fine, drinking tea and coffee and chatting with the host in the yard, listening to the soft sound of pine needles falling to the ground, you will feel that the spring flowers and autumn moon in the steel forest do not seem to be so difficult to achieve.

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There have been a lot of waves in the coffee industry in Shanghai this year, with Peet's, Horikou Coffee and Starbucks roasters settling down, but there are also many local cafes that are not impatient and are still sticking to their own path.

In the era of "Internet celebrities" and "popular styles", it takes some courage to refuse to attract attention in the form of grandstanding. The four shops recommended this time, all respect and restraint for coffee, approachable, can also produce ingenious inspiration, push through the old and bring forth the new.

And this kind of coffee shop is not buried, but also can meet acquainted guests in Shanghai, which is where the vitality of Shanghai coffee shop lies.