Jack Meets Kaldi Specialty Coffee

you're on j. abad santos street in san juan, which isn't the part of metro manila that gets written about first, and that's fine. jack meets kaldi has built something worth the detour, a specialty roaster that locals have quietly circled back to often enough that its standing in makati's wider coffee conversation feels earned without being loud about it. the focus here is the coffee itself, sourced and roasted with the kind of attention that independent operations either have or they don't. you won't need to decode a complicated menu to find something good. san juan rewards the people who actually explore it, and this address on j. abad santos is a reasonable place to start your afternoon with a straight black coffee.