Singapore

A celebrated specialty coffee bar in a converted hardware shop in Jalan Besar, known as CSHH, serving exceptional single-origin filter coffees, experimental espresso, and a brunch menu in a cavernous industrial space that launched countless Singapore coffee trends.

📍150 Tyrwhitt Road, Singapore 207565

A light-filled all-day brunch cafe at One-North business park with an artsy, gallery-like interior, excellent specialty coffee, and creative brunch dishes that attract Singapore's creative and tech industries. Known for the truffle scrambled eggs and the matcha latte with house-made oat milk.

📍54 Beo Crescent, Singapore 160054

A four-story cocktail bar and cafe in Kampong Glam with excellent specialty coffee on the ground floor, a speakeasy bar above, and a penthouse with Arab Street rooftop views. The house espresso cocktail - vodka, coffee, vanilla foam - is Singapore's most requested coffee drink.

📍20 Kandahar Street, Singapore 198885

One of Singapore's smallest and most respected specialty coffee roasteries with a tiny cafe counter in a Everton Park HDB block, serving some of the city's finest pourovers. Nylon roasts twice weekly and the tasting notes on their single-origins are some of the most accurate in Singapore.

📍4 Everton Park, Singapore 081004

Singapore's most influential specialty coffee roastery, which single-handedly built the island's third-wave coffee culture. The Tiong Bahru cafe serves immaculate pourovers and espresso from beans sourced on annual origin trips to farms in Myanmar, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.

📍150 Tyrwhitt Road, Singapore 207565

The beloved Singapore outpost of the famous French baker Gontran Cherrier, with the best croissants and kouign-amann in Southeast Asia alongside excellent specialty coffee. The Tiong Bahru original location in a 1930s art deco precinct is the quintessential Singapore Sunday morning experience.

📍56 Eng Hoon Street, Singapore 160056