Fotoyard Café 蓝水明水咖啡10am - 2am
Fotoyard has been put together by a group of well-traveled photographers, and they have drawn ideas from all over China and abroad. Small tables with a... Address: 101-3 Nanshan Road 南山路101-3号 Tel: 0571 8577 7788
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Reggae Café 黑根咖啡馆9am - 1am
The Reggae Café is nothing like its older bar brother. It’s refreshing, has fantastic windows that hold flowers beneath them, and they serve a couple of... Address: 87 Shuguang Road 曙光路87号 Tel: 0571 8659 2191 Tel: 137 7742 6166
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Taiji Teahouse 太极茶道苑24 hours
This is about as close to the real deal as it gets. No air conditioning, no heating and no cushions here. You’re right with the elements while in Hefang... Address: 184 Hefang Street 河坊街184号
Tel: 0571 8780 1791
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Jamaica Coffee Shop 牙买加咖啡 9:30am - 2am
The name says Jamaica, but the place started in Spain. Located lakeside, you’ve got a nice view of the lake and passersby as you sip piping hot espresso.... Address: Building 12, Xihutiandi, 147 Nanshan Rd. 西湖天地12号
Tel: 0571 8702 6598
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Myth Café 神话咖啡馆9am - 10:30pm
So if you have a couple of hours in the afternoon, you can really make good use of them. First, head down to the corner of Gudun road and Wensan road. Walk... Address: 402 Gudun Road 古墩路402号 Tel: 0571 8893 0646
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Me Too Café 蜜桃咖啡9am - 1am
Loft 49 was one of the first places to turn a factory site into a bunch of funky offices housing creative types, and now it has the Me Too Café. Its hip... Address: 166 Lishui Road (Opposite to Jinchang Wenhua on Jinhua Road) 丽水路166号丝联166创意产业园内(金华路锦昌文华对面) Tel: 0571 8801 9967
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Café Lumiere 咖啡工房10am - 12pm
This little café has quite a following. Its location just off of busy Yan’an road probably helps. It’s definitely easy to miss because of the greenery... Address: 72-1 Kaiyuan Road 开元路72-1号 Tel: 0571 8706 3927
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Jin Duan Teahouse 金端茶庄10am - 10pm
The New West Lake area has seen a real boom in the past few years with everyone and their mother buying up buildings to open family-run teahouses. We found a... Address: 95 Santaishan Road 三台山路95号 Tel: 0571 8799 9410
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Orioles Singing Teahouse 闻莺馆茶楼9am - 5pm, 5:30pm - 2am
The traffic is inaudible when having a cup of tea here because the house isn’t on any road. You actually have to walk to get here, but the silence is worth... Address: 3 Liu Lang Wen Ying Park, Nanshan Rd. 南山路柳浪闻莺公园3号 Tel: 0571 8792 2540 Tel: 0571 8702 7924
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Fifty/Fifty Café & Cigar 五十/五十 咖啡雪茄10:30am - 9pm
Fifty/Fifty hides behind the IN Club and looks more like a hallway than a café. Actually, it is a renovated garden corridor, and the twisting and turning... Address: 23 Yanggongdi 杨公堤23号 Tel: 0571 87977779
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Rose House 古典玫瑰园10:30pm - 12pm
The master behind this very exclusive and tight little group of chain shops hails from Taiwan, and that’s where it all started. This place is just clean so... Address: 220 Nanshan Road 南山路220号 Tel: 0571 8708 6479
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Qingteng Teahouse 青藤茶馆9am - 5pm, 6pm - 2am
Here is the big boy the golden arches of tea. It is a little better than that but it is just as well-known around here. Prices are comparatively low and it... Address: Yuan Hua Plaza, 278 Nanshan Road 南山路278号元华商场
Tel: 0571 8702 2777
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Tian Fu Ming Cha 天福茗茶9:30am - 2am
This is definitely the place you want to go to buy tea. They've got more than twenty locations all over China and know their stuff. Store manager, Mr. Li,... Address: 154 Hefang Street 河坊街154号 Tel: 0571 8780 4784
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L96 Café 光线咖啡10am - 12pm
Any of you who were around a couple of years ago might remember Rosso. It once occupied the odd-shaped corner building where Dongpo meets Hubin. A spot now... Address: 96 Pingfeng Street 屏风街96号 Tel: 0571 8505 7758 Tel: 0571 8510 7183
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Charming Music Library 张铭音乐图书馆 10:30am - 1am
We don't have a library section in the mag, so we threw this place in the Cafés listings. You can have a coffee, so why not? Each table here has a couple of... Address: 7 Shengtang Scenic District, Hubin Walking Street (near the corner of Beishan and West Huancheng roads) 湖滨步行街圣塘景区7号 Tel: 87038678
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Chenhuang Teahouse 城隍茶楼9am - 1:30am
This teahouse is one of the more difficult ones to get to, but the view is damned worth. High up top Cheng Huang Pavilion, you can sit and sip tea whilst... Address: 43 Liangdaoshan Road (in Chenhuang Pavilion) 粮道山路43号
Tel: 0571 8791 0953
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Best Bites Donuts 百滋百特多拿滋8am - 11pm
If the line at Best Bites Donuts showed us anything, it was that there will be more of these shops opening up in the near future. We went there on a... Address: 10 Yan’an Road, Wushan Square 吴山广场延安路10号 Tel: 0571 8706 7760
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Starbucks, West Lake Branch 星巴克西湖店8am - 11pm
Address: D Department, Xihutiandi, 147 Nanshan Road 南山路147号西湖天地D号商铺
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Starbucks, Hubin Branch 星巴克湖滨店8am - 11pm
Back in 1994, if you wanted to get a pizza, you had to go to Peppino in the Shangri-La. Pizza Hut and Papa John’s only came years later. Before the chain... Address: 8 Shengtang Scenic District, Hubin Walking Street 湖滨步行街圣塘景区8号
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SPR Coffee, Xixi Branch 春天咖啡西溪店9am - 12am
This isn’t one of those overpriced, pretentious places that you go to and have to listen to some broad playing the piano while sipping a mediocre cup of... Address: 133 Xixi Rd. (near Hangda Rd.) 西溪路133号
Tel: 0571 871 87555
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