First Glance: Living Room Coffee, Dazhalan

Dazhalan's creative crowd has one more place to stay caffeinated with the opening of Living Room Coffee, a small cafe set in a converted 70-year-old hutong courtyard just north of Yangmeizhu Xiejie.

The space features a large communal table as you enter, before opening out into a corridor/coffee bar area underneath a glassed-in roof. There is a small, plant-filled courtyard for smokers (or, you know, for good weather).

Living Room Coffee keeps things simple, both in terms of design, and in terms of menu, which features a short selection espresso-based coffees and seasonal coffee variants such as Singaporean kopi. They roast the coffee, which is a blend of Kenya, Rwandan, and Brazilian beans, themselves. A daily selection of homemade cake is also available for RMB 30.

Overall, a positive addition to the Dazhalan community. Get down there during Beijing Design Week, when they are hosting a small exhibiton/clinic in conjunction with Yi Zhou's Body Memory, who will create a cast of a body part (fingers, ears etc ... let's keep it clean) and turn it into a piece of jewellery.

Living Room Coffee
Daily 10am-10pm. 23 Tan'er Hutong, Xicheng District (5722 3061)
西城区炭儿胡同23号

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Photos: Robynne Tindall