Jakarta — Cafes
Specialty coffee, work-friendly tables, heritage rooms and late-night warkops across Jakarta.
Cafes to know
Kopi Es Tak Kie
Glodok's coffee house since 1927, pouring black coffee and iced milk coffee in Gang Gloria, a walk from Jakarta Kota station.
Colonial café & restaurant2Café Batavia
A grand café in an 1830s building on Fatahillah Square, with a wood-panelled upstairs salon overlooking Kota Tua.
Heritage coffee house3Bakoel Koffie Cikini
A colonial-era Cikini house where a coffee family dating back to 1878 roasts its own beans and serves kopi tubruk and Indonesian food.
Coffee & cocktail bar4Fuglen Jakarta
The Oslo coffee house's Jakarta outpost, opened in late 2024: light-roast coffee by day and cocktails by night.
Specialty roastery5Giyanti Coffee Roastery
A Menteng specialty roastery set up like an old Javanese sitting room, opposite the Jalan Surabaya antique market.
Specialty café6Common Grounds FX Sudirman
The 2014 flagship of a pioneering Jakarta specialty-coffee brand, a two-level café with its own roastery inside FX Sudirman.
Specialty café71/15 One Fifteenth Coffee
A third-wave pioneer since 2012, named after its 1:15 brew ratio, with brunch and plenty of power outlets for laptop workers.
Specialty café8Kopikalyan Archive
Kopi Kalyan's two-storey flagship, opened in December 2024, with a cold-brew bar downstairs and beans bought direct from farmers.
Specialty café9EXPAT. Roasters Jakarta
A compact specialty bar on the 13th floor of Mori Tower with panoramic Sudirman views and mostly direct-trade Indonesian beans.