HJ Roastery — Restaurant in Chiang Rai Province

We stopped here for a lunch break before continuing our bicycle tour to the White Temple. It was worth it. The owner (who also speaks English) is very passionate about coffee, which is something I seldom see in a cafe. He knows about a lot of local and imported coffee. We ended up having a "coffee class" and coffee tasting with him. The cafe serve drip coffee, which we like best. We would love to taste more coffee, but we had to stop ourselves since we had to continue our bicycle trip. For lunch I had a bun with coconut, and a thai sweet that is formed as a tiny, yellow and purple pineapple (which, if I remember correctly, is made of a kind of potato with pineapple filling), while my husband had a kind of bread with cheese and bacon served with the cafe's own sriracha based sauce. I recommend the bread with the cheese and bacon. The bun with coconut is also good. The yellow and purple pineapple thai sweet has an acquired taste and texture. This is probably the best cafe we've ever had in Thailand so far and we would definitely come back here if we have...

The espresso here is very good, but the chocolate used in the mocha is very unique. The owner informed us he mixes it himself using cacao from Chiang Rai. The mocha was very bitter to allow the coffee to shine. It was excellent. The art in my latte was...

We happened to notice the coffee shop while passing by and decided to give it a try. The coffee was delightful, and the baristas was kind enough to explain the coffee blend to us. Unfortunately, there weren't many options to...