Kingston - Chiyoda City

28年前から行ってます。 昔ながらの居心地の良い喫茶店。丁寧に入れられたコーヒーとサラダスパゲッティーとイカとツナのクリームパスタが大好きです❗️

ランチはパスタのセットしかなかった。 家で作れるような感じの味だし、たまたま用事がある場所の近所だから入ったけどもう入らないかな。

半蔵門駅4番出口より大妻通り沿いに徒歩一分ほどのエスプレッソが売りの老舗喫茶店。 ドリップメインではないのはなかなか珍しいですね。 店内30席無いぐらいで入り口側が禁煙、奥が喫煙と緩い分煙です。 今回はエスプレッソをいただきました。 エスプレッソなのですが抽出量がやや多いルンゴ風の分量で提供されるため、少し濃いデミタスコーヒー程度の感覚でいただけます。 そのためストレートで飲みやすい。 チョコミント風のフレーバーでハーブ感のあるブレンドはブラジルベースでしょうか。 しっかりコーヒーを飲んだ気になる一杯でした。 今風のおしゃれさはありませんが、年配の方々のいこいの場で、居心地の良いお店。

窓際のロゴ入りガラスがかっこいいですよ /2018秋 （Instagram…@doraebon）

半蔵門にある(私の初来店した)36年前から何も変わらない銘店☝️わざわざ食べに来て欲しい"サラダスパゲッティ"は他所にはない絶品?冷やし中華風なマヨダレをたっぷりなキャベツの千切り、きゅうり、カイワレ、トマト、ハム、スクランブルエッグで食べる?麺の茹で具合も絶妙、フォークが止まらない、変わらない味?珈琲も店内焙煎なので好み?珈琲とパスタで1.000円?オススメのお店です、是非?‍♂️

Great coffee and super friendly staff. Their butter toasts are awesome.

The coffee tastes bad and the butter toast is sour. It is overpriced as well

Kingston... Jamaican connections? Think again. Okay, let's cut to the chase, this is no funky modern coffee spot for the trendsetters of Tokyo, they don't even have an FB page; but rather a nostalgic nook replete with an atmosphere that you feel that it has tales to tell. It has that immediate 'at-home' feel about it, the couple that run it are in their sixties I suppose but are full of smiles and friendliness, a genuine warmth is tangible. I'm guessing they can't speak English...as I am proficient in Japanese that isn't a problem though. Hehe! One slight jar to the system is that this place IS a smoking establishment, so if you are not of the puffing persuasion best move on to Doutor next door. IF you couldn't care less about the yellowed wallpaper and the tanned looking ceiling you should be happy enough however. :) The cappuccino was recommended, and IS recommended by me, having had it. Served in a now well-aged 'Made in Japan' cup with a saucer but of distinctly European flavour design wise, looks the part. As you sit down on the comfy old wicker-backed chairs you can't help notice just how worn out this place is. The table edges have their varnish worn off, the poster frames are chipped and scratched and yet, the posters are still lively and interesting, introducing their viewers to a bygone era. Just soooo appealing. You CAN wile away time here, and you should. Being a tad peckish I ventured to try the cheese on toast. ¥600. A lot? Once you see and taste it, you'll consider to be pretty good value for money. It was... close to perfection. You need to exit Hanzomon station from exit 4 and turn immediately right, saunter down the street and cross over to the left side as soon as you see the raggedy and faded canopy almost concealing the cafe's existence. Stop existing and start living an olde world coffee experience at Kingston. :) P.S. The coffee brewing machine here is an exquisite work of art from the U.S. You gotta see it for real!