Blue Bottle Coffee cafe
We have aimed to create an atmosphere which welcomes the local community by mainly using wood, inspired by the park located by the Blue Bottle Coffee Minatomirai. The building acts as the main character of the park and provides a feeling of kindness with the natural material” - Keiji Ashiza
As a true coffee lover, I‘m always interested immediately when I come across beautiful places where you can enjoy a special coffee in a unique environment. One of the companies you always see on the lists of finest coffee cafes is Blue Bottle Coffee bar and I can only confirm that , they always look so great and inviting!
And now with their newly opened establishment in Yokohama, where designer Keiji Ashizawa collaborated with Norm Architects, that will surely not change. The cafe is is designed as a glass-walled open space with soft and welcoming curves in combination with natural wooden surfaces. The front looks out towards a smartly kept public park. Wooden chairs, tall bar stools and dining chairs have been added to enliven the cafe’s tone and feel. It has become such a great inspiring place again, dont yout hink so? You will find more images here - Elvera
“In the early 2000s, in Oakland, California, a slightly disaffected freelance musician and coffee lunatic, weary of the commercial coffee enterprise and stale, overly roasted beans, decided to open a roaster for people who were clamoring for the actual taste of fresh coffee. Using a minuscule six-pound batch roaster, he made a historic vow: “I will only sell coffee less than 48 hours out of the roaster to my guests, so they may enjoy coffee at peak flavor. I will only use the finest, most delicious, and responsibly sourced beans.”
In honor of Kolshitsky’s heroics, he named his business Blue Bottle Coffee and began another chapter in the history of superlative coffee.
Now, more than fifteen years later, and thanks to the enthusiastic support of many loyal guests, Blue Bottle Coffee has grown to a network of cafes across the U.S., Japan, and Korea” - Blue Bottle Coffee cafe
Photos: Tomooki Kengaku