5 Must-Go Cafes In Penang Before Year Ends 2022

We know that if you’re going to Penang, you’re going for food hunting, from mouth-watering local hawker food like char koay teow, assam laksa, Penang cendol, or you crave Nyonya and Indian street food dishes, even maybe cafe hopping! Coffee lovers looking for a spot to hang out with a nice cup of coffee? Penang will never let you up. Recently Penang is blooming with cafes focusing on serving good quality coffee in a good ambience.

Constant Gardener

This café is located in a British Colonial Building. Their pursuit for the sustainable quality at the highest value for the customers is unceasingly ingrained in their daily operation. Constant Gardener always trim wastage, adding value to their customers’ experience while nurturing humility and passion among their modest team.
There are always some coffee experiments, some of these are multiyear paths of investigation. The pursuit of knowledge is an important aspect along the coffee path. With a few good souls, they wander through the world of flavors, exploring ideas, searching for new means to raise the coffee quality at retail whilst adding value to the producers.
Constant Gardener has gained big thumbs up from coffee connoisseurs in Penang. Their baristas take good control of multiple factors in brewing a cup of coffee, from water filtration, grams of coffee beans, temperatures and many more just to ensure their patrons would enjoy a great cup of coffee. They even take in consideration their patrons’ preference of the coffee note.
Besides hand brewed coffee, they serve the best chocolate in town. Constant Gardener is definitely a place to go to enjoy delicate drinks while embracing yourself in the good ambience with a special selected playlist of music.

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STAIRS

STAIRS The World is one of the entities under the Brothers Unity Group (B.U.G.), offering up a variety of lavish coffee options and dessert pastries. STAIRS baristas are skilled with different methods of coffee brewing and there are more than 12 beans options for you to choose from. There are even limited edition choices which currently include beans from Colombia, China, Kenya, and Indonesia. Most of their options come from the South American and African continent. Hence, you have a chance to diversify your coffee options here.

Besides typical espresso coffee options, there are different coffee extraction methods available here, such as hand brew, French press, chemex, pour-over, and syphon. Different methods suit different types of coffee beans. STAIRS is the first café in Penang to offer coffee omakase. Tell their barista your preference and wait till their barista surprises you with a specially crafted cup of coffee.

If you would like to learn more about the cup of coffee you have, STAIRS is the place you must visit. For hand crafted coffee, the barista will leave a note telling about the origin of the coffee beans used and the notes of your coffee to be expected. To give you the ultimate coffee experience, you can be seated along the coffee bar to witness the process of making the cup of your coffee.

STAIRS even offers membership to let their patrons enjoy their cup of coffee with RM1.00. Currently there are four STAIRS outlets in Penang Islands with all four different design concepts. STAIRS Noordin 46 allows you to experience the heritage building in Penang. STAIRS Tropicana 218 allows you to enjoy your coffee while immersing yourself in the sun rays. STAIRS Karpal Singh is the specialty outlet that allows you to feel the mystery of coffee. STAIRS in Gurney Walk has a futuristic outlet, allowing you to enjoy your cup of coffee in a futuristic atmosphere with the view of Gurney Drive Beach.

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2f+ Coffee Roastery

2f+ Coffee Roastery was established in 2012. They have 3 branches located in Relau and Balik Pulau in Penang, Malaysia and another in Bangkok, Thailand. They roast their own coffee beans and brew it into a unique cup of coffee. There are more than 10 types of coffee beans with different degrees of roasting available.
2f+ Coffee Roastery even provides coffee workshops for those who like to learn to make a perfect cup of coffee. You have a wide range of coffee and food menus, including daily freshly baked pastries. To order your cup of coffee here, you can choose your favorite beans for hand brew. If you are lucky, you can even see how they roast their coffee beans which you could view through a glass roastery room in the café. Thus, the café is always filled up with spectacular coffee aroma.
The cafe is well decorated with pafcal soilless plants, allowing you to immerse yourself in greeneries while enjoying your cup of coffee. This cafe does sell their coffee beans, coffee equipment and pafcal soilless plant. You can bring it all back to your house and enjoy it at home with your loved one. 2f+ has a good menu on non caffeinated beverages as well. Thus, you can bring your family along to enjoy a relaxing moment.

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Macallum Connoisseurs Coffee Company

Macallum Connoisseurs Coffee Company is a coffee business founded by coffee enthusiasts, combining the twist of modern sense into the local culture, the venue is a roastery, café, restaurant, and academy. The café space of about 8000 square feet is big enough to accommodate events and special occasions. It is located at the heart of Georgetown City, Gat Lebuh Macallum which is famously known as the “Goh Tiao Loh”.
The café comes in rustic edges and industrial style layout that is touched with plenty of plants to cure your lingering coffee fix. They serve refreshing breakfast to meaty dinner meals. Macallum Connoisseurs roast their own coffee beans and serve to their patrons in a fine cup of coffee and you might get to see how this roasting process works here.
Aside from drinking a good cup of coffee in the café, they also sell a bag of their freshly roasted coffee beans. From choices of Single Origin (beans that come from one country) to House Blend (mix of 3 types of beans), you can now enjoy them at home. They change these flavors monthly so that you won’t get bored with one single note of coffee. Besides freshly roasted beans, they also have a bakery to provide you with freshly baked breads.

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Kopi Hutan

Kopi Hutan is a hidden gem in Penang Hill. It is a forest café located at 833m above sea level. A cup of hot coffee in Kopi Hutan is the best reward to all Penang Hill hikers. If you are a forest lover, you shall never miss the chance to enjoy a hot cup of coffee while immersing yourself in mother nature’s beauty.
In Kopi Hutan, the walls are the foliage and the sky is your ceiling, you will even have a coffee table decorated by living moss. Any special playlist in Kopi Hutan? Yes, the sounds of the forests. In Kopi Hutan, they do not serve fancy coffee, they only serve Kopi “O” where sugar and milk is served separately. Enjoying the simplest Kopi “O”, the authentic Malaysian coffee, in nature is surely a blessing. Cakes and sandwiches are served in the café, yet the special menu of the café is actually the bread stick. The bread stick in the menu is a local traditional snack which makes up a perfect match with Kopi “O”. It is the authentic local Malaysian menu for morning or evening tea, and also the taste of childhood for most Malaysians.
Coffee in Kopi Hutan is served in a pot, ensuring you can have a sip of hot coffee. The natural forest environment is not something you can find in other places. There are two ways to get to Kopi Hutan, one is you hike up, the other one is you can go up by tram then at the dataran get the Kopi Hutan transport to send you there. You may need to wait for a while as there is only one transport picking up patrons there. If you wish to have a stroll in the cozy and serene environment, you can choose to walk to Kopi Hutan. It will just take you around 10 -15 minutes to walk depending on your walking speed. There are a lot of spots for spectacular Penang view shoots which you only can stop and embrace if you walk to Kopi Hutan.

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Coffee lovers usually are particular with the coffee they drink and above are some popular cafes in Penang which really put in efforts to serve you a good cup of coffee. Nowadays, coffee has become a must have beverage in a day for most people, thus a good cup of coffee is important as part of your diet instead of taking pre mixed coffee which is high in fat and sugar.
The recommended daily dosage of caffeine is around two shots of espresso. To avoid caffeine addiction and insomnia, please do not exceed the recommended daily dosage. Caffeine has a diuretic effect, hence please make sure you have sufficient plain water intake while enjoying your cup of coffee to avoid dehydration. Do enjoy your cup of coffee in a way that will benefit your health.