The World's Most Beautiful Cafes. All in One Place.

50 extraordinary café designs. 150 pages of pure inspiration. Free.

Join thousands of coffee lovers, designers and café enthusiasts who take their coffee culture seriously.

What’s inside:

A hand-curated collection of the 50 most breathtaking café designs from every corner of the globe — from intimate neighbourhood espresso bars in Tokyo to sweeping architectural masterpieces in Copenhagen. 150 pages of stunning photography, design details and the stories behind the spaces.


This is for you if:

— You believe a great cafĂ© is as much about the space as the coffee — You’re obsessed with beautiful interiors, thoughtful design and cafĂ© culture — You draw inspiration from the world’s best hospitality spaces — You want to stay ahead of the trends shaping cafĂ© design globally


What you’ll get:

— 50 of the world’s most extraordinary cafĂ© designs — Stunning full-page photography — Design details and what makes each space exceptional — A weekly digest of the latest cafĂ© design, architecture and inspiration

All completely free.

Featuring the Following Cafes from Around the Globe

Urata Look Out Cafe, Savusavu, Fiji — CAUKIN Studio

Harudot, Chonburi — IDIN Architects

Early Yuyen, Bangkok — Spacecraft Co., Ltd.

1Meal Diner in Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang Malaysia by Empt Studio

About Life Coffee-Brewers in Ho Chi Minh City

AHORA Restaurant: Material Transformation as Design Philosophy

Alchemy Coffee — LO Design

Alchemy Origin Sculptural Cafe in Taikoo Place HK by Metagram

Art Cafe The Paradox of Bounded Space — Anatomy Architecture

BAR OMA IETJE, Cafe in Shipping Container Neighbourhood — Open Architects

Sculptural Timber Forms at Three Beans Cafe on York Street, Sydney CBD

Colo Coffee in Bogotá — Studio CREARQ

Brownie Project Gallery, Shanghai — Offhand Practice

Cafe.Ceres, Material Narrative and Spatial Logic — Behind Design

Anni Coffee in Ca Mau, Ca Mau, Vietnam

MKO Culture: Material Restraint in Makassar — INS Studio

Jung Jiyoung Coffee Roasters in Suwon

Chasing Tales, Mumbai — DIG Architects

Create Cafe in Pretoria — Nadine Engelbrecht

Coffee Standup, Xinyi District, Taiwan — AODA Design

Curitiba Brasil cafe, Brazil — MOCA Architecture

On Partage Cafe, Paris

Foreplan Cafe, Seoul

Hazel, Gymea, Sydney — Shantala Mack

Em En Caffe in Islamabad

Montag Coffee Shop, Istanbul

Industrial Heritage and Ceramic Craft Koyo Base, Toki City, Gifu — Atelier Write

ido & Friends Café in Kunming, China — Aurora Design

La Panaderia, San Antonio, Texas

Art Cafe in Ca Mau, Vietnam

Migrant Kitchen Story, New York — JBA Collective & MEAN Design

Modernism Cafe, Bangkok — IDIN Architects

Mountain Mover Café, Tokyo — Koyori

NANA Coffee Roasters, Bangna, Bangkok — IDIN Architects

Nodi Coffee Plus, Hong Kong — Unite Unit

Manta Ray Coffee Roastery Nunawading, Melbourne — We Are Humble

Dual Purpose in the Eleventh Paris Coffee Shop

Parkside at Nina, Hong Kong — Atelier E

PKV Coffee Shop in Debrecen

Parla Coffee Deli and Bar in Quay Quarter, Sydney

Rise Coffee, Bangkok — Spacecraft

Rootdown, Hong Kong — Beams Creative

Red Brick Narrative on Shaanxi South Road ,Shanghai — Atelier IN

200 Degrees, Sheffield

Cuore Espresso, Suwon

Nostalgia Cafe in Suwon

Wonderland Cafe in, Suzhou, China — Xiaodesign

Gumption by Coffee Alchemy The Strand Arcade, Sydney

Veroni & Co, Coquitlam, BC — STA Office Architecture

William Angliss Tram Cafe, Melbourne — Gray Puksand

Best Cafe Designs is a directory of cafes and cafe professionals (designers, photographers and builders).  It is a fully functional review site curated for the design community, connecting product suppliers, architects, cafes, and travellers.

The site is ranked in the top 100 architecture blogs worldwide and is a design publication. It features articles by Penelope Barker, a former editor at Vogue Living, Belle and Indesign magazines, and a well respected writer in the architecture and design space.

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