Top worldwide cafes comfort you with their architecture
Designing an attractive and impressive coffee shop is a great secret to helping one advertise the brand successfully. Most customers will want to return if they feel comfortable in the cafe’s space. In fact, depending on the local’s aesthetic taste or the designer’s preferred style in each region, they will build cafes with their own unique style, which can be artistic spaces, minimalist modern masterpieces, or rustic style inspired by nature. The list of the world’s cafes with the top-notch design below will both satisfy all your refreshment needs and provide a great backdrop to fulfill your cafe-hopping.
Swan Café
Buitenkant and Barrack Streets, Cape Town Central, South Africa
Located in East City on the corner of Buitenkant & Barrack Street, Swan Cafe bears the aesthetic of the beautiful French architecture with a theme focusing on the image of a free elegant blue swan, all conceived by the talent Haldane Martinhe. The cafe’s interior is a harmonious mix of three outstanding colors: blue – red – white. The backdrop of the dark blue wall and the beautiful monochrome wallpaper made the space bright, welcoming, and cheerful to sit in and catch up with friends. The on-wall black and white paintings also go well with the placement of wooden tables and chairs, making every corner extremely Instagram-worthy.
They serve numerous French dishes, especially the authentic traditional crêpes and savory galettes, healthy ticks on the menu, as well as a wide range of roasted coffees and exclusive tea blends.
Blue Bottle Coffee
4-1-6 Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Blue Bottle Coffee is originally a chain from the US but featuring a Japanese minimalist theme, making it a great stop for those who love simplicity. With high ceilings, luminous interiors are interwoven between the white color of walls, lights, floors, and bright brown furniture, as well as lots of windows, the shop will give customers an airy, open space. The coffee bar is placed in the center where the surrounding drinkers can witness the barista doing their job.
There is a wide selection of coffee, from filtered to hot and iced options, along with standard cookies and muffins. All the staff is extremely service-minded and able to communicate well in English. If lucky to have a seat, you are able to observe separate baristas producing the drinks with such precision and care.
Cafezal
Via Solferino, Milan, Italy
Cafezal is a new specialty coffee brand launched in the heart of Milan’s bustling Brera district for real coffee connoisseurs. The shop offers an interior that is shaped in a neoclassical style with black Marquina marble and satin bronze accents. The background of deep blue tones perfectly interwoven between white furniture help to release the eyes’ wavelength and bring a bright vibe.
Cafezal’s menu includes a wide selection of grade-approved coffees from great third-wave beans from around the world. Here, the best organic beans are roasted to perfection, which means smooth, rich, and flavorful coffee brewed at just the right temperature, so there’s only natural sweet aftertaste without any bitterness.
Bicicleta Bar
Strada Lipscani 38, Bucharest, Romania
Though Bicicleta is not truly a coffee shop, yet its funky design is worth mentioning in this list. Tucked away in the heart of the old center in Bucharest, the bar is extremely unique under many aspects: the bike-themed layout and no fixed menu as the bartender will make up a personalized cocktail as you want. The place is designed by Alina Turdean with the inspiration of old and antique bicycles, (Bicicleta means bicycle). Even details such as the legs of the tables and chairs are also made from bike frames. The dominant blue-red contrasting tone also creates a special highlight for the space. There is a beautiful, long bar with bicycle seats, where customers sit and enjoy their excellent cocktails.
This is a popular venue for exhibitions, music sessions, workshops, and other events by contemporary artists of different genres. At night, music performances with fantastic DJs make the inside atmosphere utterly unbeatable.
Kafé Nordic
Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea
Immerging with the yellow house-shape image on a two-story building’s red brick wall at a residential street of Itaewon, Kafé Nordic easily attracts the eyes of passersby. As its name mentions, the main layout of the coffee is “Nordic”, which presents the bright, delighted interior of colorful furnishings, along with the diverse patterns applied on walls and floors. All express a concept of modern life full of art, humorsity, and enrichment based on functionalism.
Kafé Nordic mostly serves homemade coffee and tea, accompanied by a number of sandwiches. This coffee house has enough elements to provide a source of positive energy to make your coffee date lighter and more relaxing.
Society Cafe
Kingsmead Square, Bath, London, England
Society Cafe is a perfect specialty coffee shop to sip a cup of joe in a cozy-like-home ambiance while watching Bath life go by in the Bath square. It seems that the architect Ben Rolls was inspired by his own home to bring the most authentic and warm feeling to this space. There is incorporation between modern elements in wall motifs and classic Western features in antique pieces, along with natural-friendly raw wood furnishings.
The cafe is rather small inside, but they have a few seats outside both undercover and not undercover. Besides a selection of whole-bean coffee drinks, they also offer various homemade cookies and pastries.
Starbucks ‘The Bank’
Utrechtsestraat, Rembrandtplein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Located in Amsterdam, this is a concept store of Starbucks Coffee, The Bank. The project used sustainable materials and the work of 35 artists and craftsmen. A range of up-to-date rustic designs merging characteristic local features – antique Delft bricks, wall coverings, bicycle tubes, molded wood, and burlap coffee bags. The space is extremely roomy, welcoming mostly due to its clever and faux-organic interior design of a half terrace overlooking the hall.
Not only about the design, but the shop also has several coffee brewing methods for distinctive flavors by region, together with plenty of tasty bake options.
Caffe Streets
1750 W Division Chicago, Illinois, The USA
The last name on the list is Caffe Streets in Chicago, Illinois, which was created by the creative architect Norsman. Unlike the name that evokes dynamism and dust, this cafe is modern and luxurious like for the nobility. The space creates a feeling of coziness, comfort, and full of sunshine. Wood is the main material of the decoration, adding to the elegance of the cafe.
This hip, modern cafe serves a wide variety of hot beverages, pour-over style coffee of superior quality, as well as freshly brewed teas. A little plus for those “Instagram” hunters out there is super pretty drinks on the menu that will help you do the trick. Their baked food options are also good.
