The Malaysian state of Penang – known far and widely in a culinary context – is synonymous with the city of George Town, the capital of the region. Connecting with the rows of heritage buildings, George Town is rightly one of the most popular tourist places in Asia, with wonderful temples, sandy beaches, live markets and amazing street food, which makes him a magnet for visitors throughout the year.
While the coffee scene in Kuala Lumpur is better known and quite well established, coffee in Penang has increased over the past decade, based on sophisticated foundations Permanent gardener AND Ome through Spacebar (Both were listed in our article in Penang in 2020 by Tung Nguyen and it is worth visiting). Since then, the up-to-date party of brewers and pales has planted its traces on the local stage, more than enough to justify the proper update.
As expected, you will find many cafes serving decent flat proteins and toasts with avocado, but the way of evolution of the city leaves a lot of options of the third wave. The award-winning Aeropress bar, a ring-a-doorbell cafe arranged like a Haarder cave, an elegant Taiwan minimalism, a third wave shop at home, and even special locations with vegan burgers and a tattoo in the same floor space. This is enough for you to wonder: is George Town currently the most underrated coffee city?
Earthbound
Early birds accumulate Earthbound To drink a backing to drink before hitting the office. The cafe opens at 6:00 SHART-RODNITY HERE-what means that travelers can consider this as the option of the first shot for coffee coffee Johny KoayThis miniature cafe is a shelter for specialist coffee, professionally brewed behind the celebrated Pulau Tikus market.
KOAY prepares its orders Aeropress on the backbar, dotted with high stools so that you can watch and talk about methods and doses. The rest of the meter is home for the manufacturer of espresso, batch infusion and snacks. If your idea for a perfect morning wakes up early, delicious coffee and you set off to discover a stall with street food, start your adventure here.
Do you need another reason to visit? The locals know that his closeness is an additional benefit of going to Mundane early Raviwhere you can catch a pile of delicious Michelin Recommended claypot APom (sweet fermented rice flour pancake) before they are sold out (usually until 9 am).
Lunabar
This neighborhood store offers the quintessence of a cafe hideout. In the bottom floor of the house, the concrete interior of the cafe is blown up with droughty flowers, ceramic ceramics and hand -painted menu. Backroom provides a place to work, the front area, containing a belt, is ideal for a quick chat and a long sip.
Coffee here is carefully chosen by hand. The colorful menu lead you through flavor profiles to lend a hand your decision, and for a moment George Town streets have become a tedious blow in a distance.
Lunabar where they go on a day off. That’s what he really says.
Wells
Born in 2013 in Taiwan, Wells Cafe He arrived a few years later to George Town. Their ethos consists in combining Japanese and Scandinavian baking methods, in order to create the desired taste profiles, with tasting cards explaining the steps related to how the cup arrives at the table.
Coffee coffee is particularly good. Brewed with a airy hand and extracting both floral and sweet notes of their beans. Upstiaras is a relaxed, open room with comfortable chairs, shelves for books full of reading materials and gigantic windows from all sides. At the bottom is the brain of surgery with espresso machines and filter coffee configuration.
Soar
Gadgets arranged on the counter, tupperware bathtubs crowded with rest beans, subscription bags spilling from wooden boxes and a continuous noise coffee grinder: Soar It is not your ordinary cafe. Focusing on baking different beans, using various processing methods as a foundation, coffee is brave, neat and alive.
Regardless of whether your tastes are in sweet, washed coffee, intensive co -financing or processed black honey, Soar has something for everyone.
Check twice
This cafe is unique in Penang, boldly international with a visual style, which draws on classic American fashionable branding trends. The founder of Chui May San quit his job in a desk in 2024 At sea In Kuala Lumpur. In a compact time she managed to create an original space on a crowded local market.
Espresso and influx coffee are offered here, but our clue is to ask Maya to recommend what can be her favorite that day. This is clearly served by the owner and will not lead you badly.
Orcabon
A minute walk from the popular Fresh World Park Food Center, Orcabon It provides specialized coffee in an artistic environment. In fact, it can be something like the first in the world, a combined coffee bar, tattoo studio and (great) vegan burger store called “Breast milk belt“On the back.
The specialized menu reads from affordable to “monthly throwing” and drinks are prepared conscientiously. During the last visit, one of the most significant attractions was floral and peach coffee with washing Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Glan, which was balanced and dainty. Their food menu and desserts are popular, so lunch dates are a sizzling topic here. High ceilings give a sense of respiratory space, and the conversation never becomes too shadowy.
A ponderous person of coffee
Owner owner-birch owner A slow person of coffee It is hidden along the order of buildings, three blocks from Chulia Street. Inscribed only after calling, the interiors are a test of maximalism, with every possible coffee object, taking into account its importance in the shelf. The walls are decorated with posters; Tops covered with brewers, drops, grinders, filter papers and coffee bags. This place is something like a personal coffee museum, but also somehow making a coffee bar.
The seat is tight, but it creates a cozy atmosphere in which you can easily talk to a barista. The rockets are chosen with great intention and often distorts local to make favorite Language mission, or go completely international, from such as Goat AND Manhattan. This store is really one of the clear experience.
Avenue
No Penang guide is complete without a nod Avenue. This cult store (located just behind the goddess of the Temple of Mercy) serves excellent espresso coffee and coffee. One of the first waves of specialist stores that opened in 2013, since then quietly allowed coffee to talk in over a decade, inspiring the entire generation of coffee bars and coffee lovers here in Penang.
Despite the fact that he is in the city center of George, the location on the miniature side side ensures that only coffee tourists find them. With five to six miniature tables, the space is compact, but the lack of raucous music makes it perfect for planning a tourist route in peace and silence.
AIS and Hani
What could be better than a ice cream shop and a cafe in the same space? Hania He specializes in the growing popularity of Yunnan beans, baking them in airy and medium options, and preparing dainty, sweet pools. Their offers processed by honey are particularly delicious, prepared in a way that emphasizes sweetness and brightness.
Nine live
Open only on Thursday for the public, the main goal Nine live Baking, training and promotes specialist coffee. Leaded by passionate owners and always participating in events to inform people about the universe of coffee, if you happen to be in the city during a narrow opening window, make Beeline.
Numerous cafes bake beans in nine veins, so it is a hive of activity. We were registered in the tasting of three up-to-date coffee, while Roasters worked tirelessly in the background, filling the room with amazing aromas.
There is a lot more in George Town – here are additional cafes that are very worth your time:
Ome through SpacebarIN CoffeeIN Permanent gardenerIN AeIN Forest cloudIN SweetbarIN Age buttonIN 2F+AND Change.
Note Crews taste If you visit Butterworth. Language mission If you want to stock up on beans.
