Golden Cup Specialty Coffee

if you find yourself on jl. raya kalimalang with a morning that hasn't quite started yet, golden cup is worth pulling over for. duren sawit doesn't get the café coverage of kemang or cikini, but that's not a problem here, it's just a quieter stretch of east jakarta doing its own thing. the shop sits inside ruko kalimalang square, which puts it in practical, everyday territory, the kind of place you go because the coffee is actually good, not because someone told you to photograph it. specialty coffee in this part of the city still feels like a find, and golden cup has built a reputation that holds up well against that. come back on a weekday morning when the street is still moving slowly, and order your cortado before the lunch crowd changes the pace entirely.