Experience the fun of the NOCO in the cafe

In the 1920s and 1930s, many luxury cafes that copied Parisian style sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, covering the streets of the French concession overnight. At that time, drinking coffee was the joy of life for the upper class and the intellectual class. The public coffee cafe, located on Duolun Road in Hongkou, bears witness to the elegant demeanor of the "left League" scribes. How many lively and interesting plots have spread from the "public space" in this city to the gossip of the street.

In his Shanghai style Qingkou, Zhou Libo vividly demonstrated the culture of "drinking coffee" of Shanghainese-"Arabian Shanghainese grew up eating coffee." Indeed, many old Shanghainese have the habit of drinking coffee, and those cafes in old Shanghai are specific and nostalgic in their lives. In Wang Anyi's novel "Song of everlasting regret", there are too many scenes related to "coffee", such as "the strong aroma of Brazilian coffee comes from the door of Lao Chang, and it turns back time." For example, Cumminson said that he seems to have been doing only one thing in the past few months, that is, waiting in line. Wait in line for dinner at 09:30 in the morning at the Chinese restaurant, then wait in line at the western restaurant at four o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes wait in line for coffee.

Now, many old Shanghai cafes have "walked out sadly". The feeling of "behind the delicacy and ostentatiousness, with a realistic and romantic sentiment" has gone forever, which makes many old coffee customers who are keen on Shanghai-style life fretting. Because now in many foreign cafes can not find that kind of Shanghai-style, sexy coffee shop feeling. It's not that we can't keep up with the times, but that the accumulation of a culture is slowly disappearing from our lives.

Old Cafe, Old Dream for cafes, this is an era of rapid development, and this is also an era of farewell.

When it comes to drinking coffee and eating western food, there must be several familiar names in the hearts of old Shanghai, such as Red House Western Restaurant, Ruby Bakery, Donghai Cafe and so on. However, with the needs of urban construction, in recent years, a number of western food clubs and cafes in old Shanghai have been rebuilt or relocated, gradually out of people's sight.

After the relocation of Donghai Cafe on East Nanjing Road in 2009, the Shanghai style Cafe, which once brought "joy" to generations, also bid farewell to us. Donghai Cafe opened in 1934 as the first coffee shop in Shanghai, recording the history of Shanghainese drinking coffee. Donghai Cafe, which was originally opened by Soviet Jews, changed its name to Donghai Cafe after liberation. Every cup of coffee insists on being made with glassware. The unique pot of coffee is not only pure in taste, but also inexpensive. Coffee ice cream, cocoa Xiaofang and Butterfly Cookies are also many people's "favorites". The taste has been "consistent" for decades.

Hengshan Cafe at No. 1 Hengshan Road is the first coffee shop opened in Shanghai after the Cultural Revolution. It was born in 1985. It is said that there are only two kinds of coffee there, black coffee or milk coffee. Coffee beans are bought in the city's first store, cooked with an electric coffee machine, and the price is also very cheap. It used to be very famous, but now, No. 1 Hengshan Road has become other shops, and the former cafe has become a witness that things have changed.

The Old Film Cafe is located in an old-fashioned house on Celebrity Street on Duolun Road, with an open-air cafe at the door. Old furnishings, rustling film and old-fashioned phonograph players suddenly make people a little lost, all of which is like a "crossing". In this cafe, even a seemingly inconspicuous gadget can have something to do with "old Shanghai".

It has been 11 years since the old film cafe opened in 2000, and although it has been decorated several times, the style of old Shanghai has not changed. The owner of the museum, Chen Jiu, is not only an old Shanghai, but also a loyal fan of old movies, with a collection of more than 1000 old films, as well as all kinds of antiques the owner bought from the secondhand market. In addition, the museum also has a collection of hundreds of original magazines, photocopies and thousands of professional film and television books from the 1920s and 1930s. If you only order a cup of coffee, you can visit here for free, or you can watch "Modern Times" or "Road Angel" for free. In the time of a cup of coffee, coffee drinkers can quietly savor a long history. The mottled tiger windows and old fans seem to tell you about the years in the past, and it pulls your thoughts back to old Shanghai, as if it had been going back 70 years. Even if you have never experienced that era, but in such an atmosphere, there is also a feeling of authentic old Shanghai.

On a sunny afternoon, there are often some fashionable old ladies sitting in the cafe, ordering an old movie, drinking a cup of coffee and eating a small piece of pastry. Such a cozy scene itself is like a painting.

Foreign Cafe, do you know the NOCO people?

The NOCO clan is "No Office,Cafe Office", which is a new term. People call these people who work while drinking coffee in the cafe the NOCO clan. Talk about things in a coffee shop, work in a coffee shop, live in a coffee shop. They know how to make full use of the free Internet and elegant resources of the cafe to work and have business meetings in the cafe. Every cafe is their office.

In the old 1933 workshop, there is a small cafe that allows people to sit in the driver's seat of F1 drivers. Their stylish red-and-black leather F1 seats make Ann Cafe stand out from Shanghai's dotted cafes. It is said that these chairs cost about 8000 yuan each. The owner of the cafe is an avid F1 fan. the original purpose of opening the cafe was: why not let everyone kill time by drinking an inexpensive cup of coffee on an expensive chair?

Citizen Cafe & Bar, located at the intersection of Jinxian, can be called the most popular coffee shop in Shanghai. The facade of European style is extremely elegant. Walk in and you'll find yourself in a small European cafe. The facade is "small", but inside there is a "unique hole"-"upper and lower floors", the light is "dark", and the chat is "the most suitable". If you like the location of the terrace, be sure to arrive early! The performance-to-price ratio of afternoon tea is "quite high", and "dessert and coffee costs only 39 yuan", which seems to kill the whole boring afternoon.

Spanish Pavilion Mistral, is a very exotic western restaurant, the overall decoration is mainly warm and romantic, light candles emit soft light, the phonograph is playing Spanish melodies, dreamy exotic rendering. Sitting in Mistral with friends, enjoying the coffee time of Mediterranean style, the breeze from Huangpu River blew across my face.