SECOND BLUE BOTTLE OUTLET

California-based Blue Bottle Coffee will open a new outlet in Jing’an Kerry Center.

It will be its second outlet on the Chinese mainland, after the first opened near Suzhou Creek.

Interior decoration is still ongoing, and an official opening date hasn’t been decided.

Blue Bottle is an emerging brand in the global coffee landscape and it has gained wide popularity. But why Jing’an, twice?

“We open outlets where coffee lovers are,” according to the company.

Shanghai has actually overtaken New York in having the largest number of coffee shops in the world. A year ago, it had nearly 7,000 coffee shops, and there’s an average of 2.85 cafes for every 10,000 people in Shanghai.

Notably, the Nanjing Road W. commercial zone has the most coffee shops in the city, with 57.9 of them operating in every 1 square kilometer.