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Eating out | Nexpect Coffee, Tokyo

Spilling the beans

Barista-turned-businessman Kenji Kojima wanted to get back to doing what he loves best: making coffee ( writes Fiona Wilson ). After helping Oslo-based Fuglen to set up in Tokyo, he recently opened Nexpect Coffee in a former newspaper shop on a quiet street in the Kodenmacho neighbourhood of Nih... See more

I like trying to find truths around the question of “why are we all here?”

And something I find interesting is the broad sense of “we don’t know where anything is going”-isms that I feel has tech people in a chokehold. The result of this is a lot of wandering about the desert, abandoning technology totally, an angst and lack of dedication to the wor... See more

Existential ideas and attitudes have embedded themselves so deeply into modern culture that we hardly think of them as existentialist at all. People (at least in relatively prosperous countries where more urgent needs don’t intervene) talk about anxiety, dishonesty and the fear of commitment. They worry about being in bad faith, even if they don’t

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Meanwhile, my single friends tell me meeting people “on the apps” has only gotten worse, making the dream of a coup de foudre over cappuccino dreamier. The coffee shop is a slower space, where conversation trumps sex, and the dailiness of the need for caffeine offers the possibility of getting to know someone over time. All the little things that w... See more

As desire for single-origin coffees spread, shops would sell 10 or even 20 different coffees. With only two or three brewed coffees for sale, café goers wouldn’t be able to sample most of the offerings