Chengdu's cafe scene splits neatly in two: the slow-morning coffee rooms of the inner ring, and the tea houses that have never stopped doing what they have done for a century. This list moves between both, because the truth about drinking in Chengdu is that a cortado at 10:00 and a covered cup of leaf tea at 15:00 belong to the same day. The 12 addresses below are drawn from OpenStreetMap's mapped record, which means every hour, street number, and postal code you read here is verifiable at the node itself. What is not verifiable, and what this list tries to give you instead, is a sense of who each room is for: the lab-coated single-origin obsessives around Dong Kangshi Jie, the office pour-overs on Tianfu San Jie, the tea rooms east of the river where the pace resets. Pack light shoes; the interesting doors are on side streets, and the addresses that matter here are numbered in the tens and twenties, not the hundreds.
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1 Doho Coffee Lab
3 东糠市街, 成都市, 610021A tight, lab-styled coffee room in the 610021 postal grid where the day ends before dinner
From 10:00 the shutters go up at Doho Coffee Lab, 3 东糠市街 in the 610021 postal grid. Skip the mall chains an easy walk away; the locals who care about a clean espresso come here and are gone by mid-afternoon. Service runs Monday through Sunday to 18:00 sharp, which tells you what kind of room it is: a coffee bar, not a co-working lounge, not a dinner spot. If you want a table you call ahead on +86 13882082847; if you want a seat at the counter you walk in and wait a beat while the current drink finishes. Coordinates land it at 30.6538, 104.0807, which is close enough to Chunxi Lu to fold into a morning and far enough off it that the noise drops the moment you turn onto the street.
- coffee shop
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-18:00
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2 Cafe G1 (G1咖啡厅)
88 天府三街An all-day office-district kitchen where the coffee is one line on a broader menu
Doors open at 09:00 and stay open until 21:30 at Cafe G1, 88 天府三街. The locals in the surrounding towers use it as a working canteen, not a pit stop, which is the case for eating here: the kitchen runs pasta, breakfast plates, sandwiches, and coffee off the same pass, so a 10:00 flat white can become a 13:00 plate of pasta without moving tables. Don't bother treating it as a specialty coffee room; treat it as the neighbourhood's default all-day, and order accordingly. It is well south of the old centre, mapped at 30.5500, 104.0643, which is a long way from the tourist grain and part of why it works. Come with a laptop or come with a colleague, plan on staying for the length of a meal, and the room will pay back the time.
- pasta
- coffee shop
- breakfast
- sandwich
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-21:30
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3 Starbucks (星巴克)
37 神仙树南路A late-running counter on 神仙树南路 useful for one specific reason: the hours
At 37 神仙树南路 the counter runs from 08:00 to 23:00, which is the only real case for stopping in. The locals with a serious coffee interest head to the single-origin rooms in the inner ring instead; what this address gives you is a predictable seat when the independents have shut for the night. The store carries its own listing at starbucks.com.cn/store/Store671.html, useful if you want to confirm the hours before making the trip. Coordinates put it at 30.6156, 104.0461, on the south side of the ring, which is a reasonable place to end an evening if your hotel is nearby and a poor place to start a morning if you have any other option. Use it for what it is: a 23:00 backup, not a destination.
Hours: 08:00-23:00
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4 3 coffee (3号咖啡馆)
141 科华北路A cafe on 科华北路 that keeps drinking hours until 01:00
The kitchen at 141 科华北路 hums until 01:00, which is not a coffee-shop hour. From 10:00 through the small hours the room at 3 coffee runs on its own clock, and the locals treat it as a late-drinks stop with an espresso machine, not a morning cafe. Skip the standard chain nearby if you are up past midnight and want somewhere to sit down; this is one of the few addresses in this postcode that will still be pouring. The venue keeps its own page at site.douban.com/threecoffee, which is the sort of Douban-era detail that fits the room's tone. Coordinates: 30.6268, 104.0752, five minutes' walk from the university corner and useful precisely because the hours make it a different proposition after 22:00 than before.
Hours: 10:00-01:00
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5 No. 42 Cafe (四十二号书咖)
196-19-2 双店西五路, 成都市A book-shop-styled coffee room out east on 双店西五路 with civilised weekend hours
Doors swing open at 10:30 at No. 42 Cafe, 196-19-2 双店西五路, and the room is closed and dark again by 20:30 every day of the week. The locals who prefer a book over a laptop come out here on weekends; the case for the trip is the pace, not the espresso menu. It is a coffee shop by trade, not a restaurant, so plan on a slow drink and a read rather than a meal. Coordinates put it at 30.6595, 104.1313, well east of the inner ring in a neighbourhood most short-stay visitors never see, which is much of why the room works. Avoid the tourist coffee corridors around the Wide and Narrow Alleys for an afternoon and give this address the two hours it deserves.
- coffee shop
Hours: Mo-Su 10:30-20:30
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6 Ri yamayama chaji (李山山茶事)
25 雨树巷A small tea-and-bubble-tea room at 25 雨树巷 south of the river
At 25 雨树巷, on a lane you will not find by accident, Ri yamayama chaji runs a bubble-tea counter rather than an espresso bar. The locals here order the cold sweetened tea over anything from the coffee side of the street, and if you have been chasing pour-overs all morning this is a useful reset. Skip the branded bubble-tea chains a metro stop away; the case for this address is the room, not the drink you can buy at any high-street corner. Coordinates put it at 30.5947, 104.1428, well south of the inner ring in a residential grid where the pace is domestic and the queues are short. Come in the middle of the afternoon when the sun has moved off the lane, and treat the cup as an excuse to sit for twenty minutes on a side street you would otherwise never walk.
- bubble tea
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7 Banshou charou (万象茶楼)
125号 惠民街, 成都市, 610041A tea room on 惠民街 that keeps a genuine Chengdu tea-house schedule from 09:00 to 24:00
From 09:00 to 24:00, seven days a week, Banshou charou at 125号 惠民街 in the 610041 postal grid holds the schedule Chengdu tea houses have kept for generations. The locals come in the afternoon with a covered cup, a deck of cards, and no plans; the case for you is the same, minus the cards. Don't bother treating it as a coffee stop or a lunch destination; the room is for sitting, and the hours are the point. Coordinates: 30.6464, 104.0291, west of the centre in a residential grid where the ring roads finally quiet down. If you have never spent a Chengdu afternoon at a tea table, this is a sensible address to spend the first one: pick a chair by the window, order once, and let the hour do the rest.
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-24:00
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8 Shuyi Tealicious (书亦烧仙草)
21-15 小南街A grass-jelly and bubble-tea counter at 21-15 小南街, useful in the middle of a long walk
At 21-15 小南街 the counter runs a bubble-tea and grass-jelly menu, which is exactly the drink Chengdu's summer humidity calls for. The locals treat it as a walking cup rather than a sitting stop, and that is the case for you too: order at the counter, take the cup with you, and keep moving. Skip the queue at the flagship branded chains an easy walk away; the address is quieter and the drink is the same. Coordinates put it at 30.6605, 104.0528, on a street that connects the old centre to the southern grid, which is precisely where you will want a cold drink halfway through a morning walk. Avoid it in the last hour before closing when the counter runs low; go mid-afternoon and pair the walk with a tea room farther on.
- bubble tea
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9 Shiroya White Wild Cafe (白野White Wild Cafe)
22-9 方池街A late-running coffee room on 方池街 that takes Mondays off
Doors at 22-9 方池街 swing open at 10:00 and stay open to 22:00 every day but Monday. Shiroya White Wild Cafe is a small-room, all-evening address, and the case for it is the calendar as much as the coffee: an independent that stays open past dinner and shuts one day a week to reset is a rarer thing in this city than it sounds. The locals who work the surrounding lanes treat it as a familiar last stop. Don't bother turning up on a Monday. Coordinates put it at 30.6617, 104.0515, deep in the tight grid west of the old centre where the streets narrow and the lighting drops off at dusk. Plan a late arrival, take a table by the window, and let the room fill and empty around you before you leave.
Hours: Tu-Su 10:00-22:00
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10 Nu Cafe
55号 奎星楼街, 成都, 610000A long-day cafe on 奎星楼街 that opens at 9:00 and closes at 22:30
At 55号 奎星楼街 in the 610000 grid, Nu Cafe runs from 9:00 to 22:30, which is one of the longer trading windows on this list. The locals use it as a full-day address: breakfast at the counter, a second stop mid-afternoon, dinner drinks after the sun goes down. Skip the picture-perfect coffee-shop-of-the-week two lanes over; the case for this room is exactly that it is not trying to be one. Coordinates: 30.6711, 104.0504, in the network of small streets north of the old centre where the eating and drinking density is quietly some of the best in the city. If you have one day for the neighbourhood and no plan, park here in the morning, walk out to eat, come back to write, walk out to eat again, and you will have spent the day well.
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11 Kaffestugan (咖啡斯特加)
一环路南一段9号凯悦新城2楼9号, 成都市A first-floor coffee room off 一环路南一段 that hides above the street noise
The address at 一环路南一段9号凯悦新城2楼9号 is not a street-level door: Kaffestugan sits one floor up above a first-ring-road building, which is much of the case for climbing the stairs. The locals who know it use the height to escape the ring-road traffic; from up there the noise thins and the room is calmer than any equivalent on the pavement. Skip the ground-floor chains along the same block and take the stairs. Coordinates put it at 30.6390, 104.0791, on the south arc of the first ring where the density of decent independents is higher than the storefronts suggest, precisely because so many of the good rooms are above street level. Come without a plan and give the room the time it needs to reveal what it is; a first-floor cafe with a Swedish name on the first ring rewards the visit only if you stay past the first cup.
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12 Hou ike i (方池居)
35 方池街A small building at 35 方池街, one door down from the neighbourhood's other coffee counter
The address at 35 方池街 closes out this list because it is the second entry on the same short lane, which is the case for including it. Hou ike i occupies a small footprint on a street of small footprints; the locals who spend an afternoon on 方池街 rarely stop at just one door, and no visitor with a morning to spend should either. Skip the plan of pairing a coffee here with a metro ride back to the centre; walk the lane. Coordinates put it at 30.6621, 104.0501, effectively the same block as the earlier entry on this street, which is the useful piece of information: two doors, one afternoon. Turn up without expectations, take whatever the counter is pouring, and use the room as the excuse it is to sit still on a good side street for an hour.
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