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Koffee Mameya Kakeru

Avant-garde coffee

A clarified coffee milk drink in a small stemmed glass at Koffee Mameya Kakeru

This was my second time visiting Koffee Mameya Kakeru, which offers a tasting menu of coffee. They brew coffee in innovative ways, such as this clarified coffee milk drink. Each course has a small food pairing, such as crab in eggplant, aged sea bream, or coffee dashi with salted pork.

This is not my style of coffee, but the work is innovative, and their inclusion in the World's Top 100 Coffee Shops ranking is justified.

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