Kopi Luwak
A cup of coffee for 5,500 yen ($60) anyone?
I caught up with my good friend Will visiting from HK on business yesterday. We had coffee at the Lobby Lounge & Bar at The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo. Flipping through the menu, I was shocked, then infuriated to find a serving of coffee for $60! Will found it amusing and decided to order one for us to share.
According to the 'Certificate of Quality' placed neatly on the silver tray next to the cup and saucer, Kopi Luwak is 'a coffee bean grown and produced in Indonesia, the rarest coffee in the world. It is imported in raw coffee bean form and roasted by Mitsumoto Coffee Co., Ltd. exclusively for The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo.
I have to say, it was an exceptional cup of coffee. Very mild, nutty, no bitter aftertaste, in fact the aftertaste was sweet..
I caught up with my good friend Will visiting from HK on business yesterday. We had coffee at the Lobby Lounge & Bar at The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo. Flipping through the menu, I was shocked, then infuriated to find a serving of coffee for $60! Will found it amusing and decided to order one for us to share.
According to the 'Certificate of Quality' placed neatly on the silver tray next to the cup and saucer, Kopi Luwak is 'a coffee bean grown and produced in Indonesia, the rarest coffee in the world. It is imported in raw coffee bean form and roasted by Mitsumoto Coffee Co., Ltd. exclusively for The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo.
I have to say, it was an exceptional cup of coffee. Very mild, nutty, no bitter aftertaste, in fact the aftertaste was sweet..
posted by Tokyo Girl at
7:38 AM
2 Comments:
i think only in tokyo could you find a $60 cup of coffee :)
happy new year m!
My thoughts exactly! Any place else, we wouldn't have ordered it, even as a joke! Happy New Year to you too Lisa!
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