Ratio Coffee Roasters

a slow afternoon in songshan is the kind of time ratio coffee roasters was made for. nanjing east road section 4 moves at a business district pace, commuters and office workers threading past, but ratio sits on the ground floor at number 2 as a place where you can actually slow down. the roasting operation is local and independent, which means the coffee you're drinking hasn't traveled through a regional distributor chain before it reached the grinder. songshan isn't the obvious neighborhood for specialty coffee tourism, and that's part of why regulars here tend to actually be regulars. the standing this place has built around taipei is quiet but consistent. stay long enough to work through a second cup on a weekday afternoon when nanjing east road starts to empty out a little.