楽珈 coffee roaster

a roaster that operates on wuguang road in wuri district, which puts it well outside the central taichung café clusters most people default to, but that distance is kind of the point. you're not passing through wuri by accident. getting there requires a small decision, and the regulars here have clearly made that decision many times over, which says a lot without needing to be spelled out. 楽珈 focuses on roasting, and that focus tends to show in places like this, where the priority is the coffee itself rather than the context around it. wuri isn't a neighborhood that performs anything for you. neither, it seems, is this place. worth timing your visit for a slow weekday morning on wuguang road, before the day gets loud.