Xinyi: glass, speed, and lunch queues
Office-district coffee on a weekday, where the espresso is tuned for milk.
Built for eleven fifty
Everything here is designed around a ninety-minute lunch window: pre-ground doses, three staff on bar, and a menu that fits on a card.
The coffee is good rather than interesting, and that is the correct trade for the location.
Xinyi is a district with two opening hours: noon and seven.
After seven
The same rooms empty out completely once the offices do, which makes them the best evening seats in the city if you can accept the lighting.
Ask for the filter list; the staff have time to brew it properly by then.
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