Beijing’s coffee culture is diverse and distinctive, with high-quality specialty coffee shops scattered in every corner of the city. In this cold winter, a visit to a café is surely on your list of destinations when you go out. Today, let’s take a look at ten niche coffee shops in Beijing!
June Garden Café
Alice in Wonderland
📍 Shop A123, Building 2, Longhu Tangning ONE, No. 16 Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing
The June Garden Museum Café on Zhongguancun East Road has an overall décor style that makes you feel like you’ve fallen into Alice’s fairy tale wonderland, which is very dreamy.
Some say it’s like a whimsical forest full of elves, while others say it’s a rich and rhythmic museum. The store is filled with vintage collections, old European clocks, beautiful dried flowers, and more.
Every corner of June Garden exudes endless brilliance that no one can ignore.
Coming here is like falling into Alice’s rabbit hole, even the restroom has a fairy-tale-like design.
Soloist Coffee Co.
American Industrial Retro Style
📍 No. 39 Yangmeizhu Xiejie, Xicheng District, Beijing
Soloist means “solo performer,” which cleverly interprets the owner Phill’s concept. The café focuses on espresso and single-origin handcrafted pour-over coffee.
Soloist has stores in Beijing’s Financial Street and Yangmeizhu Xiejie. Of course, the Yangmeizhu Xiejie store is more well-known, as spending time in the aroma of coffee in the hutongs seems more worthwhile compared to the hustle and bustle of Financial Street.
The exposed red bricks and industrial-style décor might make you feel cold at first, but once you step inside, you’ll feel a sense of warmth and inexplicable security. The dim yellow lighting and the scent of coffee beans make people feel warm.
The decorations here have a strong flavor of the Republic of China era, especially on the second floor, with rustic wooden seats and scattered old objects that are full of a sense of history. The walls are adorned with yellowed old maps, giving off a strong scholarly atmosphere.
The Corner
Minimalist Industrial Style
📍 No. 8 Hepingli South Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
This coffee shop is named after the widely-read essay “The Corner,” located outside the east gate of the Temple of Earth in a large white building with a simple black, white, gray, and metal color scheme.
As soon as you enter the café, you’ll be attracted by the beautiful black and white lines inside. The comfortable coffee space was created because of a book and the desire to make the repair shop more pleasant. It’s a space that makes people happy and peaceful, with a glass dome on each table containing a plant, a leaf, or a dried flower, showing attention to detail.
The first and second floors are the coffee space, while the third floor is an exhibition hall. There’s a staircase with industrial-style black and white lines that you can’t help but capture with your camera, as well as some surprising decorative pieces.
Z-space
“Rooftop Revelation” Coffee Shop
📍 No. 40 Xiezuo Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing
This must be the most beautiful rooftop café in Beijing in November. Hidden deep in the Xiezuo Hutong near Dongsi, the ground is covered with layers of golden ginkgo leaves.
It has a beautiful courtyard and terrace with a strong autumn atmosphere. You can still “reveal the roof” and view the ginkgo trees under the blue sky from the top of the hutong.
You can also grab a chair to read a book or take a stroll with a cup of coffee, it’s like a golden dream of freedom and tranquility.
Yue
A Good Place to Study
📍 Room 21-1, Zone 3, Shuanghuayuan South, Chaoyang District, Beijing
From the name of the store, you can probably guess that the theme of this coffee shop is books. As soon as you enter the store, a whole wall of books immediately catches your eye, with many beautiful original and limited editions that instantly delight book lovers.
It is a French boutique coffee shop that emphasizes both quality and style. The décor colors are very bold, with high-saturation yellow chairs, green door panels, blue walls, and peonies in small vases on the tables. Every corner is a scenery in itself, making you instantly forget about Beijing’s gloomy winter.
The atmosphere here is also relaxed and peaceful, with comfortable natural light shining into the store. Many customers are reading, working, or talking quietly, making it a “good place to study.” Order a caramel latte with a chicken roll, paired with a leisurely mood, and this beautiful moment will shine brightly in your memory.
Tree Coffee
Outdoor Camping Style
📍 No. 9 Shuangqiao Road (491 Space Park, SECRET CAMP)
In Beijing, I was unexpectedly drawn to a coffee shop called Tree Coffee. This coffee shop, known as Beijing’s “Little Kenya,” is most notable for its “camping style.”
A dead tree, a small building, and a lawn create a story-like atmosphere, especially the huge, lonely tree that has become a backdrop for many people’s photos!
You can blow in the breeze on the lawn and see the cute little sheep, which brings a touch of warmth amidst the loneliness.
Of course, you can also choose to dine inside the store. The interior is mainly Nordic in style, echoing the scenes of dead trees and other elements outside, giving people a sense of desolate loneliness, making it a classic example of a quiet and solitary style.
Café Clark
Western Antique Japanese-Style Coffee Shop
📍 Cafe Clark Coffee Shop, B1 Floor, Palm Springs Beijing Center, No. 8 Chaoyang Park South Road, Beijing
Cafe Clark is a representative of Japanese-style pour-over coffee in Beijing. After a decade, this old store has finally set sail again and welcomed the second store of Cafe Clark (Palm Springs Apartment Store).
Currently, the new store mainly offers Japanese-style pour-over coffee, creative coffee, and classic Italian-style coffee. This time, the new store’s soft and hard furnishings were personally designed by the owner.
The overall decoration is mainly in a retro vermilion color, taking you into a coffee club in a Showa-era ship cabin. The coffee shop is more like a museum, with high stools, coffee machines, and decorative paintings.
Visually, the new store features dark wood and copper-colored metal, with antique lamps in a warmer yellow tone.
Everything you see is an old item that the owner, Clark, has collected from Europe and Japan, and after some restoration, they are placed in the store, revealing thoughtfulness and care in every corner.
Berry Bean Coffee
Window-Style Coffee Shop
📍 No. 6-2 Sanlitun South Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Berry Bean Coffee is located under a very localized small supermarket on Sanlitun South Road. The white tiles and small wooden windows of the “unimpressive” store decoration make it stand out even more in the trendy Sanlitun area.
The store hopes to make drinking coffee a casual affair, not stuck in formality. Therefore, the store’s decoration, coffee naming, and many program settings are vastly different from formal coffee shops. The cups used for coffee look surprisingly similar to old-fashioned Erguotou (a strong Chinese liquor).
The decoration focuses on a “casual” style, simple and generous, mainly a combination of some current popular elements. The small green bench at the door is also a popular spot for many people to stop and stay.
The most distinctive feature is the “window-style ordering.” You step on a wooden stool to order, and after ordering, you pick up your drink at the small window. The wooden board at the small window drops quickly, giving the illusion of a “human vending machine.”
Basic Element Coffee
A Small Coffee World Hidden in a Secret Garden
📍 Inside the park at the northeast corner of the west entrance of Yuyuantan South Road, Haidian District, Beijing (west side of Zhuozhan Shopping Mall)
This is a simple coffee shop, quietly hidden in a garden in Beijing’s Haidian District. Basic Element Coffee means starting from making a pure cup of coffee, allowing people to slow down and experience the basic elements of life.
The white cottage is surrounded by colorful flowers, and people who value appearance will definitely fall in love with this place. You can also buy carrots at the door to feed the rabbits.
This coffee shop, located in the Wukesong Garden Center, has a garden and a coffee shop that are independent yet interdependent.
The BE team has made “making pure coffee” their philosophy, using simpler colors to decorate this store, such as black, white, wood color, projections of coffee molecular formulas on the walls, and small green plants everywhere…
dotcom coffee
Future Technology Coffee Shop
📍 1st Floor, Block D, Zhizhen Building, No. 7 Zhichun Road, Beijing
dotcom coffee is a space experience hall integrating specialty coffee, design aesthetics, and intelligent technology. It is the most interesting and futuristic coffee shop in Beijing, backed by a team with an e-commerce background.
They love coffee, and after visiting coffee shops around the world, they felt that technology should be used to solve the drawbacks of coffee shops and make them more interesting.
The entire coffee shop has a strong sense of space, with a high-ceilinged large space featuring Nordic lifestyle brand furnishings, bright and warm. The design style of the space is also a cold style of concrete floors with exposed crisscrossing pipes, and the overall color scheme is dominated by a “tech style” silver and white.
The entire coffee shop has a huge two-story space! So it has also become one of the choices for many people to work and study. The store also displays quite a few items that showcase modern technology.
If you love drinking coffee, you must not miss these ten niche coffee shops hidden in Beijing~ If you have any questions, please feel free to leave us a message in the comment section.
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