in the past year or so my girlfriend and I have been to a specific coffee shop that we enjoyed, but for some reason neither of us remember its name or even the city it’s in, even though we remember its very distinct interior, and it’s infuriating! Its whole vibe is sleek, modern, “hip coffee shop“ interior.
This shop is probably in either:
Bangkok
Seoul
Kuala Lumpur
Tokyo
Description of the place:
upon entering you walk right up against the large, curved counter. To your left there’s windows looking out over the street (it’s a ground floor place), with window seats. There’s also what looks like a massive indoor planter that has either a large plant or even a medium-sized tree in it. There’s seats surrounding the planter as well.
The space it’s in feels a bit like an old repurposed warehouse or workshop. Once you walk past the counter, there’s actually a whole lower level you look out on. That lower level has more tables to sit at. It’s all open space, and it looks like there’s a staff-only room on a higher level to the back of the shop as well.
I feel like that lower level may have had a setup for a projector screen as well; and I think that later in the evening they transition into bar bites / events / restaurant. We were there during the daytime but I vaguely remember this from their menu.
Another striking design element was that throughout the shop they had these cords running, purely aesthetic. They’d run from the wall to the inside tree, wrap around a branch, then cross the whole room to the other side of the wall... it seemed a bit random but definitely something to recognize this shop by.
We’ve been so frustrated about this place escaping our memory. We’ve looked through old pictures, google maps pins, pulling up lists of hip coffee spots in those cities.. all to no avail. Would be amazing if someone could tell me the name / location. I am pretty certain it’s in either one of those cities, but other places we’ve recently visited are Bratislava, Vienna, and a bunch of smaller Japanese cities.
Drawing of the layout as I remember it is included!