喫茶 · Coffee house · 7 Lanthorn Street
Pour slowly, stay late.
Siphon coffee brewed one cup at a time, thick toast with butter, a firm caramel purin and a record on the hi-fi. Eleven stools at the counter. No laptops after four.
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Kissa Yūgure / 夕暮
The house
A wood-panelled room for unhurried coffee, loud-ish jazz and people who would rather read than scroll.
Aiko Brennan opened Yūgure in 2011 after a winter spent sitting in the coffee houses of her mother's home town, where the owner knew everyone's order and nobody hurried you out. Her brother Tom built the counter from a reclaimed school gym floor.
Fifteen years on, the siphons still bubble on halogen burners, the menu still fits on one board, and the record shelf has quietly taken over the back wall.
- Stools at the counter
- 11
- Minutes per siphon
- 4
- Records on the wall
- 1,240
- Kinds of toast
- 1
Featured pour
Cold coffee.
Long afternoon.
Iced coffee, drip-chilled overnight, poured over a single large rock. Black, or with condensed milk.
On the hi-fi
A few in the rotation
Requests are taken at the counter, written on a ticket and played in order. Side B counts as a new request.
Low Tide Suite
Rain on Tin Roofs
Night Kiosk
Seven Cups
City Lights for Insomniacs
Time
for yourself.
Tue–Thu 08:00–18:00 · Fri 08:00–20:00
Sat 09:00–20:00 · Sun 10:00–16:00 · Mon closed
Stay for side B.
The kitchen is on from 11:00–16:00. The kettle keeps going.
Your usual is waiting
Come in,
sit down.
No need to reserve for daytime coffee. Find the little orange sun on Lanthorn Street, pull up a stool and let the kettle do its thing.
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