Visitors Flock to South Korea’s Sheep Cafe
When South Korean café owner Lee Kwang-ho decided to add a couple of sheep to his payroll, it was the best business move of his life. Since 2011, the fluffy employees at Nature Café have been attracting hordes of animal lovers and tourists. The shop serves all the café staples such as coffee, tea, and cake, […]
Australian Cafe Charges Different Prices for Coffee Depending on How Nice You Ask for It
The Seven Mile Beach Kiosk Café in Gerroa, New South Wales, doesn’t just serve its customers good coffee, but also a lesson in politeness. In order to reinforce the importance of being nice, the café’s owners are actually charging people different rates for coffee, depending on how they ask for it. Just so this doesn’t […]
Share a Table with Your Dog – Philippines Cafe Serves Both Two-Legged and Four-Legged Customers
Even though a lot of restaurants are now pet friendly, there aren’t too many places that actually have a separate menu for dogs. So Filipino chef and dog lover Giannina Gonzalez decided to fix that with her unique Whole Pet Kitchen – a small café that caters to dogs as well as humans. Located in […]
Heaven Is in Japan – Cafe Specializes in Mouthwatering Giant Ice-Cream Parfaits
Cafe Olympic, a small restaurant in Nagasaki, Japan, is better known as ‘Parfait Heaven’. And for good reason – they serve a variety of jumbo-size parfaits that range in height from 1.5 ft. to a whopping 4 ft. tall. The tallest parfait, the Nagasaki Dream Tower (120 cm), is filled with all kinds of wonderful […]
Share a Coffee with Snakes and Scorpions at Vietnam’s Popular Pet Cafe
If you love dogs, cats and cute, cuddly bunnies, then Vietnam’s Pet Café is certainly not the place for you. It exists to serve a totally different kind of animal lover. Located in the capital city of Hanoi, the café has an awesome collection of snakes, rats, lizards, tarantulas and even a few hedgehogs, stored […]
Korean Photography Enthusiasts Build Awesome Camera-Shaped Cafe
‘Dreaming Camera’ is a quaint little coffee shop located in the breathtaking countryside of Yangpyeong County of South Korea. The spectacular café was built by a photography enthusiast, which is quite obvious, seeing as how the building is shaped like a gigantic vintage camera. I’m not sure who the owners are, but here’s what I […]
Politeness Goes a Long Way at French Café That Charges Extra for Rudeness
The French aren’t exactly world-famous for being polite, which is why I was quite surprised when I read about this. A French Café is actually charging customers extra for being rude to its staff, and offering discounts to those who are nice. The Petite Syrah Café, located in the French Riviera city of Nice, has […]
Have a Hoot at Japan’s New Owl Cafés!
If you’re a cat person and you’re in Japan, you surely must have heard of the famous cat cafés. The concept is pretty straight forward: most people live in such crowded places that there’s hardly any room for a pet, so whenever you feel like getting a little love from a furry friend, all you […]
Ultimate Latte Art: Taiwanese Cafe Prints Your Portrait on a Cup of Coffee
If you’ve ever wanted to drink your own face, now’s your chance. Taiwanese cafe chain, Let’s Cafe, uses a special latte printer that creates portraits of customers directly on their delicious caffeinated drinks. Let’s Cafe is a chain of small kiosks offering “fast but good coffee” to shoppers on the go all around Taiwan. Faced […]
Japanese Universities Install Anti-Socializing Cafeteria Tables
At the request of students who wanted to avoid lunchtime socializing, Japanese universities in Kyoto and Kobe have replaced regular tables with so-called “lonely seats” featuring 50-cm dividers in the middle. In most cultures, going to lunch with friends or co-workers is a great way to take your mind off the job and relax, but […]
Your Money Is No Good Here – Australian Cafe Invites Customers to Pay for Coffee with Kisses
Metro St. James, a French-themed cafe in Sydney, Australia, has been open for only three months but it’s gaining popularity fast thanks to an ingenious promotional offer that allows customers to pay for their coffee with kisses. It’s no joke. During the month of June, people who choose to drink their coffee at Metro St. […]
Japanese Cafeteria Offers Curious Eaters a Taste of Prison Food
In Japan, you don’t actually have to get thrown in jail to get a taste of prison food. The Prison cafeteria, in Abashiri, Hokkaido, specializes solely in food actually served inside Japanese prisons. I’ve often wondered what jail food tastes like, but I was never curious enough to commit a crime and find out. Luckily, for […]
Every Minute Counts at Germany’s Slow Time Cafe
Slow Time, a newly opened cafe in Wiesbaden, Germany, is charging clients on how much time they spend there, rather than on what they order. Coffee and biscuit snacks are free, and customers can even bring their own food, but on departure, they have to pay for every minute spent inside. The “time cafe” concept […]
The Chillout Ice Cafe Is Literally a Very Cool Place to Hang Out
In the desert city of Dubai, summer temperatures average at about 40 degrees Celsius, so the last thing you’d expect to be able to do in this place is chill out in a sub-zero climate. But this is the UAE, where almost everything is possible, if you have the money. Welcome to the Chillout Ice […]
Crazy Vienna Cafe Has See-Through Toilet Doors
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to say goodbye to privacy in the place where it mattered most – the restroom. A wacky cafe in Vienna has installed see-through toilet doors that only turn opaque if the users lock them. For a lot of people, using the toilet in public places is uncomfortable enough, but the […]