Cafe de l'Ambre

The experience

A narrow Ginza coffee house opened by Ichiro Sekiguchi in 1948 and still run on his method after his death in 2018. The specialism is aged coffee: more than thirty single origins, many of them green beans held for ten to twenty-plus years before roasting, hand-brewed to order and served in vintage china or a champagne glass for the iced 'blanc et noir'. There is no food — coffee is the entire menu.

Nobody else in the world serves a bean list like this, and it costs the price of an ordinary cafe coffee.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.