Chapter Coffee Roastery & Cafe SM North EDSA

if you've got a few hours to fill in the north, specifically around bago bantay in quezon city, chapter coffee roastery & cafe at the block sm north edsa is worth factoring into your plan. this is a roastery that handles its own beans, which means what ends up in your cup has fewer hands between the source and you. that matters, and you can actually trace that chain here in a way you can't at most spots along edsa. the crowd at sm north tends to move fast, but a place that roasts in-house tends to attract people who slow down a little. go on a weekday morning if you can. that's when the roastery side of things feels most present.