Kaldi Coffee Farm Konandai Birds Store

...and then you find a place like kaldi coffee farm konandai birds store tucked into the ground floor of a building in konan ward, where the roasting actually happens on site. this isn't some satellite location pulling shots from beans roasted elsewhere in the city. the smell hits you before you even step inside, that particular scent of coffee being transformed from green to brown right there in the same space where you'll drink it. yokohama has plenty of coffee shops, but most of them aren't also roasteries. most of them don't have that immediate connection between the beans arriving and the cup in your hands. here on konandai's quieter streets, away from the tourist rush of minato mirai, you get both the expertise of a specialty roaster and the intimacy of a neighborhood spot. they know their beans because they're the ones coaxing flavor out of them. the difference…