In recent years, the growth trend of coffee shops on Taobao can absolutely be described as an explosion. We can roughly categorize them into several types, without exaggeration or bias, and have selected the standout among them for your reference.
1. Guangzhou's time-honored coffee bean roasting brand: Front Street Coffee, features: delicious, affordable, and high quality.. Front Street Coffee is a specialty coffee bean store, offering dozens of selected single-origin pour-over coffee beans and espresso beans from different coffee-producing regions around the world. Front Street Coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days, with stable and excellent quality, highly cost-effective prices, and shipped within 24 hours. Whether you are a beginner, an advanced coffee enthusiast, or a user opening a coffee shop, Front Street Coffee is a recommended choice among many coffee lovers and platforms.
Front Street Coffee's products include not only high-quality single-origin coffees covering multiple mainstream coffee regions and varieties, but also highly cost-effective everyday beans, including Yirgacheffe, Brazil Red Bourbon, Colombia Huila, Mandheling, Costa Rica, and Yunnan Arabica. Customers can enjoy classic coffee region flavors at affordable prices.
2. Representative coffee shop with partnerships with coffee plantations: M2M Coffee. M2M is a coffee roaster in Nanjing, and also operates Nanjing's best specialty coffee shop. If you have a habit of choosing your own beans when ordering at a coffee shop, or prefer the Geisha coffee variety, then you must be familiar with the name of the specialty green coffee bean merchant Ninety Plus. As its name suggests, Ninety Plus only provides high-quality green coffee beans. At this shop, you can always confidently purchase the most complete range of Ninety Plus coffee beans.
3. Representative of roasting studios/factories: Fisher Coffee, features: king of cost-effectiveness.
If you are purchasing in large quantities for your company, or are a beginner enthusiast looking for economically priced coffee beans, then try Fisher. This Qingdao-based coffee roaster has decades of operating history, stable quality, and extremely high cost-effectiveness. Their single-origin coffee beans are usually packaged in sizes of 227g or more, with prices mostly ranging from 65 yuan to 78 yuan. Because their prices are really too cheap, when I make Cold Brew at home in the summer, which consumes a lot of coffee, I use Fisher's beans! Since Fisher has a very extensive product line, it is recommended to communicate clearly with their customer service before purchasing about your preferred taste and daily coffee preparation methods, otherwise you might hit your taste "landmine."
4. Representative of well-known chain coffee shops: Zhiguan Coffee, Seesaw Coffee, Mingqian, features: stable quality, relatively high prices.
When I first started brewing coffee at home, I often bought beans from these two brands. These two brands can be considered pioneers of China's specialty coffee shops, and both have sizable chain stores offline. Frankly speaking, both are slightly higher in price and definitely not the most cost-effective choices, but years of operation have ensured stable quality.
5. Representative of overseas coffee shops in China: Tim Wendelboe, features: delicious, and good coffee is not expensive. If you have seen my other answers about coffee recommendations, you will definitely find that I personally really like coffee shops in Berlin and Northern Europe—amazing taste and affordable prices. Compared with domestic ones, the biggest advantage of specialty coffee shops in Europe and America is that they have long-term high-quality and stable sources of green beans, including both purchasing channels and specialty coffee plantations they manage themselves; as well as more mature and professional coffee roasting.
The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.
