Dou Brew Coffee & Craft

Café · Talat Yai

A specialty coffee roaster and bean-to-bar chocolate maker in an old shophouse on Soi Romanee, Phuket Old Town.

Café

About Dou Brew Coffee & Craft

A coffee roaster in one of Soi Romanee's shophouses, left with its old plaster and high ceilings and fitted with nothing newer than a teak counter. The beans, mostly arabica from northern Thailand, are roasted at the back, and the nitro cold brew is the drink to try first; the other half of the board is bean-to-bar chocolate from Thai cacao, as bars, bonbons or a drink. It opens at 8, the best hour on the lane before the crowds, with stools out under the arcade.

Also known as Dou Brew

As the record has it

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Cuisine

Coffee roasted on site, mostly northern Thai arabica, as espresso, drip, AeroPress, cold brew or nitro cold brew; chocolate bars, bonbons and drinks from Thai cacao.

Dishes

Nitro cold brew, the drink the shop was built around.

The Burgundy, a nitro cold-brew tea to a house recipe.

Prices

An americano costs 105 THB hot and 110 THB iced.

Setting

A deep, high-ceilinged shophouse with bare plaster walls and a teak counter, and stools under the arcade facing the lane.