The taste of summer starts from the healing cafes in Jiading
Taste mellow coffee in this quiet courtyard by the Xiyun River. One Step Garden (Jinfu store) is in Jinfu, Xiyun Building, covering around 1,320 square meters including 840 square meters’ indoor area.
It is a place where you can not only drink coffee, but also taste history.
Jinfu, or Jin’s mansion, was originally built by Jin Tong, who owned a silk weaving empire. It was moved from Huzhou City in neighboring Zhejiang Province to the bank of Xiyun River in Jiading District.
The main hall is magnificent, with exquisite carvings between the beams and columns, engraved with a plaque of “loyal heirs” and brick carvings of “good virtue carries good fortune.”
The outdoor corridor extends in all directions, and the enclosed courtyard layout is symmetrical. Pomegranate flowers, osmanthus flowers and other famous trees are planted in the courtyard, which exudes the unique artistic conception of the Suzhou-style garden.
“Lakeside coffee” is a specialty developed by the store. Compared with ordinary latte, this coffee is sweeter, with a cool aftertaste of mint, which makes customers feel as if they are on the lakeside where the breeze blows. Hence the name “lakeside.”
On the menu there is also cinnamon latte, garden roast duck pizza and garden fried filet mignon. Smell the fragrance of flowers, taste the mellow coffee, and listen to twittering birds and humming insects.
No buns here!
ROASTED Bun Café does not sell buns, but there is coffee. This shop is located in a Chinese-style courtyard at 600 Changxu Road. The shop has not only upper and lower floors, but also an open space, as if it were a paradise.
If you are lucky, you will see the two pet dogs whose images are on the coffee mugs here. One is called Co Co, and the other is Piglet. They are very friendly.
Their models are also placed in the shop, like two beckoning signs.