Blue Bottle Coffee - Shinjuku Cafe — Restaurant in Tokyo

I've heard stories and watched documentaries about Blue Bottle years ago, and the company struck me as an "ideal" cafe since it serves specialty coffee and has multiple locations around the world. However, that's not really the case anymore for me.

The Shinjuku branch's customers couldn't have been more disconnected from the baristas and the coffee let alone the farm that grew the coffee. The experience is highly commercialised and efficient which is great for high foot traffic, but not great for me.

Again, I think I'm a special kind of customer since I wanna know who's serving me the coffee. Granted, they did tell me about the coffee, but there was almost no room for chit chat.

Their set up literally felt like a castle since they have a long bar that surrounds them like a castle wall. They did really try to make small talk with me. I really wanted to continue the conversation, but the environment killed the mood.

If you just want coffee, this is the place. If you wanna talk with baristas, this is not the place.

Speaking of the coffee, I chose one from their Horizon Series. It showcases the Sitio San Roque farm from the Philippines with the label saying it has notes of strawberry, pineapple, and rose.

Upon recieving the cup, I mentally noted how hot it was to the touch, and I began to worry. But I pushed that aside and thought, "There must be a reason for this." And, indeed there was.

I was met with pleasant floral notes. Not too strong like Turkish ice cream but just enough to surprise me. A mild sweet fruity taste followed, and something just clicked. This tasted like an Ethiopian Yirgacheffe I had a while back. I don't want to make comparisons, but the "typical notes" of brown sugar and roasted nuts from Filipino coffee was nowhere to be found, and that blew my mind.

As it cooled down, the acidic and sweet notes began to open up more, and the floral notes went from in your face to a very mild aftertaste.

P.S. Ask for drip coffee. Apparently pourover is not a term in...

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