MATCHA OF THE DAY

Nailing down a one-two Hulk colored punch, Happa to Mame has become all the rage

Originally beginning their journey with a stand in Poznań’s KontenerART complex, the popularity of Marcin Cieśluk’s and Shota Nakayama’s foamed-up matcha led to a café located in the city’s hip foodie district of Jeżyce. Now, destiny’s hand has led them to Warsaw, and to what many understand to be the city’s most enviable micro district – the heart of Hoża and Poznańska.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Translated literally to mean ‘beans and leaves’, these are primary ingredients on a menu that is short and sweet. But don’t bother looking for the name on anything so gaudy as a flashy neon or a glitzy sign, instead just look for the snaking queue that wraps its way around the corner of the street.

WHAT’S INSIDE

Formally a beauty salon in one of Warsaw’s eye-widening 90s construction, this cafe has an open, cool grey interior of concrete and wood. In the main room, find some tatami platforms for sitting low to the ground, and then a bar with stools jutting off the main serving counter for those less eager to pop a squat. Taken together, these two annexes feel like they represent two different ideas.

On one hand, you have some space age modernism where sit as if in a Graviton surrounded by street-facing windows –in front, two illuminated meshwire installations dangle from the ceiling as if they were clouds. Then, there’s the adjoining room. Entered through