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Omotesando Koffee Singapore baristas will be trained by those from Japan and Hong Kong

SINGAPORE — Omotesando Koffee is a huge name in hipster brews.

SINGAPORE — Omotesando Koffee is a huge name in hipster brews.

Come June, Singaporeans will not have to make a trip to Japan or Hong Kong in order to sample the cafe items from the Shibuya and Wan Chai outlets.

Omotesando will be housed in Downtown Gallery Mall.

To ensure the same quality of coffee is served, baristas from Omotesando Japan and Hong Kong will be flown in. They will be stationed in Singapore in the intial three to six months of the cafe’s opening. During that time, they will also train the Singapore staff, director and franchising owner Russell Stradmoor told TODAY.

The Singapore outlet will feature beans from Melbourne. Just as they are in Japan, these will be roasted in Kyoto by the Ogawa Coffee Roasters. The cafe here will also carry the signature Omotesando Koffee blend, created by the brand’s founder and owner, Eiichi Kunitomo.

Omotesando Koffee will be situated in The Work Project, a co-working space operator, on the mall’s fourth floor. The mall also features other concepts such as grocery store The Providore, and boutique fitness studio GuavaLabs.

Kunitomo first gained fame in 2011, when he set up Omotesando as a pop-up concept in Shibuya in Tokyo. That lasted for four years before it closed in December 2015.

Kunitomo opened its second iteration, Toranomon Koffee, in Toranomon Hills around 2014. And earlier this year, he opened Koffee Mameya in the original Shibuya space.

He and Stradmoor took the brand to Hong Kong, opening the Omotesando Koffee outlet in Wan Chai in Hong Kong last year.

The Singapore cafe is a partnership between them, and Junny Lee, founder of The Work Project in Singapore.

The outlet here may have items not found on in the overseas outlets, although whether drinks would be a take on Singapore’s local coffee cannot be confirmed.

Foodies can expect to find the cafe’s signature baked custard cubes here.

 

Omotesando Koffee Singapore will open in June at Downtown Gallery Mall (6 Shenton Way).

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