I’ve been meaning to post this updated list of coffee shops for a few weeks now but I kept on finding out about more coffee shops so I kept postponing the post. We’ve got so many coffee shops now that we even have two different ones with the same name. I don’t think I’ve missed any places but in case I have, let me know in the comments.
Abu Al Hasania
Dose Cafe
Tripple A Cafe
V60 Coffee Bar
Al Zahra’a
BRW
Jabriya
RumorZ Cafe
Wing Cafe
Kuwait City
7 Grams
20 Grams
33 Cafe
Alpha Café
Arabica
Ark Coffee Co.
ASPRO + PRO Coffee Bar
Awake Coffee
BLAKK Coffee
Bon Coffee
But First Coffee
CAF
Caffeine
Caveman Coffee
Coffea
Commons
Cova Specialty Coffee
CRL Bar
Dose Cafe
Drip Cafe
East
Grace
His Majesty
Jumo
Kaffa Kuwait
Kôfē – Espresso Bar
Let’s Coffee
Mood Coffee Bar
Muse Coffeesphere
Muse Espresso Bar
Not Just Coffee
OIA Coffee
OZ Coffee
Pause Coffee
Perhaps Some Coffee
Pirate Cafe
P R E S S
Richard’s Coffee
Savage Coffees
Sisters & Co
Street Cafe
The Breeze Cafe
Three and Barista
Toby’s Estate
ÜSHK
Vol 1
Volta
Wish Cafe
Mahboula
Ace Coffee
Made Caffe
OROMO Coffee Bar
Swing Coffee House
Mangaf
Mug
Vibes Coffee
Messila
Majnoon Qahwa
Rai
Amo Cafe
Salmiya
Magnet
Muse Lounge
Mr Koobs
New Brew Coffee
Shuwaikh
Arabica
Boost Cafe
Caffeine
Car Wash Cafe
Days*Cafe
Force Bar
Keys Coffee Shop
Shuwaikh Coffee
Ves Vas
Vol 1
Most of the places above opened up in the past 6 months or so. Insane.
Update (13/8/2017): I’ve updated the list above and split them based on their location
35 replies on “Updated List of Speciality Coffee Shops”
There’s a cafe called Urban. Tried their hot chocolate, didn’t like it.
If we’re talking about the same Urban then they aren’t a speciality coffee shop https://www.instagram.com/urbancafekw/
is that the one?
Yes, this is the one. I honestly don’t know what a speciality coffee shop is, I went there with my coffee-addict friend so she can try it.
Three a pretty little place called Etsi Kaf Lab here’s there account https://instagram.com/etsikafelab_kw and another small place called The Breeze Cafe https://instagram.com/thebreezecafe. They are all right next to each other close to HMC
thanks!
Caveman too
https://www.instagram.com/cavemancoffeekw/
adding it now thanks
Hey Mark, umm.. what is a specialty coffee shop exactly?
For me speciality coffee shops are shops that focus on serving quality coffee and have proper machines and baristas to be able to accomplish that. I’m sure there’s a more technical term so maybe I can have grant answer that. But found this online which actually isn’t a bad explanation https://www.baristaguildofamerica.net/what-makes-specialty-coffee-so-special/
They’re also known as “artisan coffee shops”. That’s what I call them.
40 specialty coffee shops in Kuwait in less than two years.
And you go inside one of them and you feel like you’ve been there before because so many of them look identical to each other.
It’s true what they say about us abroad – Arabs are sheep.
Still, I’d take any of the ones above over an American chain.
And a lot of them do serve good coffee.
i spotted one in Symphony the other day, and right next to AUK (Abdullah bin masoud street) a new little one is opening up called New Brew coffee or something along those lines.
I don’t get the sudden uprise in specialty coffee shops–Another habba?
I’m glad someone agrees with me.
found them https://www.instagram.com/newbrewcoffee/
Of course it’s a habba. The Kuwaiti economy is based on the habba factor.
Also, no bars or clubs so this is the closest thing to be cool and hip and show off your habba fashion.
Basically a human-cattle hybrid based fashion. When breaking the chain becomes a thing? I’m already fed up man
The chain is broken all the time, but once someone breaks it, it becomes a habba. It’s a vicious cycle.
In the absence of bars and pubs, are specialty coffee shops the next best thing to see and be seen? Discuss
People don’t usually dress up to go to bars or pubs, unless its a gay bar on a weekend then you are expected to wear something abfab.
They wear whatever is comfortable or they just wear whatever they’ve got on that work day. A lot of people go to bars straight after work to unwind.
but people do dress up to go to bars or pubs
Depends on what kind of bar/pub it is.
Again, many people go to bars right after work with their work clothes on to unwind after a stressful day.
You mean alcoholics.
To paraphrase Malkovich in Burn After Reading,
“We live in a Muslim country. To people here, everyone around the world is an alcoholic!”
Yeah people do dress up to go to bars and pubs. Sorry.
Sure
The best thing to come out of the influx of “artisanal”coffeeshops is all the new avenues they’re taking with branding and design. Thumbs up to some of the shops for coming up with innovative ways to be different. Not sarcastic btw.
What we need is a proper coffee *experience* shop. Somewhere you can also learn about the process and not just take snapchat videos of latte art.
I think the people behind Arabica are working on something like this.
Eventually the goal being the shops are a subscription place to get quality coffee peripherals and beans, and then you can prepare it yourself at home (or of course, at the shop there) and enjoy the process as well as the product.
Right now I think people just go to these places to be seen.
yup thats the Arabica Shuwaikh shop thats opening up https://248am.com/mark/sneak-peek/arabica-roastery-opening-next-month/
theres a cafe that serves artisnal coffee, best i’ve had in q8, Lahojakw
all this coffee craze happening when I switched to tea! dammit
Don’t worry, teahouses will soon be the next “coffeeshop” in Kuwait.
You’re ahead of the curve 😉
In my humble opinion, the best specialty coffee shop in Kuwait just opened up opposite AUK and next to Symphony Mall in a new restaurants complex called Argan Square.
Their espresso and lattes are out of this world. The flavor is so different from other places I’ve tried. It seems they also use natural sauces from Le Notre, not the sugary syrupy ones Starbucks and Costa use.
LOL.
Oops I forgot to mention, they are called Coffee Masters and located on the first floor. Their Instagram is coffee_masters_kuwait
Thank you for the amazing information. I was wondering why you did not cover Al Jahra Governorate and Al Ahmadi Governorate?
There’s Wild Coffee Bar in Salmiya. It’s dog-friendly too! worth mentioning. (@wild.kwt on Instagram)