{"id":73389,"date":"2026-08-01T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=73389"},"modified":"2026-08-01T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:06:05","slug":"6-new-cafes-and-coffee-shops-to-try-in-hong-kong-in-august-2026-to-avoid-the-summer-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=73389","title":{"rendered":"6 new cafes and coffee shops to try in Hong Kong in August 2026, to avoid the summer heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/08\/01\/c184f2a0-2575-455b-af29-51fa2f890681_eee07536.jpg?itok=nI87f7t4&amp;v=1785540104\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As we enter the height of Hong Kong summer, ducking into a pleasantly air-conditioned cafe to enjoy a cold brew or two continues to be one of our favourite ways to beat the heat.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This month, the options for new places to try are plentiful, with new branches of existing favourites as well as newcomers in neighbourhoods including Sai Kung, Tin Hau, Causeway Bay and Sham Shui Po.<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">1. Islet Coffee Lab<\/h3>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The third location of Islet Coffee Lab is its first on the Kowloon side. To celebrate, the cafe is promoting its new house blend inspired by the Yau Ma Tei neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Named Chaotic Honey, it is a mix of Colombian and Ethiopian beans with cupping notes of peach, white grapes and white flowers \u2013 just the thing to cut through the muggy weather as of late.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While it is still in soft-opening mode, early visitors are already raving about the single-origin drip coffee, their banana bread topped with caramelised banana, and its relaxed, vinyl-record atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There are also new signature drinks inspired by classic films such as <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">American Psycho<\/em> (2000) and <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Amelie<\/em> (2001).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3362480\/6-new-cafes-and-coffee-shops-try-hong-kong-august-2026-avoid-summer-heat?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we enter the height of Hong Kong summer, ducking into a pleasantly air-conditioned cafe to enjoy a cold brew or two continues to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2739,2839,738,3619,568,3569,5231,7745,847],"class_list":["post-73389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-august","tag-avoid","tag-cafes","tag-coffee","tag-heat","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-shops","tag-summer","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}