"Hipster" coffee brews change in Qatar

Customers line up for orders at Flat White Coffee Doha: Doha's Tawar Mall looks a lot like any other malls scattered around Qatar, but hidden in one of its corners, a tiny cultural revolution is underway.

Here you will find Flat White, Qatar's first attempt at a hipster cafe

Customers can buy drinks like a V60, Aeropress or Ginger Latte, by selecting coffee beans from Colombia, Tanzania or Canada. Peru, then "

Or they can simply sip and admire the brutalist decor, all the naked concrete walls in fashion and contemporary lighting that hangs.

In the background, the familiar sounds of drinks prepared by baristas on machines $ 3,500 (2,600 euros).

"We did not have" This hipster style, that is what was missing in Qatar, "says Nbader al-Nuaimi, who co-owns Flat White with his wife Maryam.

Nuaimi, 35, is a coffee enthusiast who has developed a pbadion for the West … style version of the drink on his travels, particularly in the United States.

International Insurance, he discovered specialty cafes during business trips and decided to try to bring back the culture to his home.

opened the first Flat White in 2012, and now there are some three scattered around Doha.

"After 17 hours in Europe, people will not drink coffee (but) will take a beer. Here, coffee is our pbadion, we drink it at any time, we sleep at any time. "

International style coffee is full of customers

" We love coffee, atmosphere, energy "Shamma, 19, student drinking a cappuccino and eating cheesecake with her friend Muneera, also 19.

"I've been to specialty cafes in London and I really loved them. "

A barista prepares an order at the" Flat White "café in Tawar Mall, capital of Qatar, on June 8, 2018.

" It becomes more of a construction social only a simple coffee. "

Sitting nearby, engineers Mohammed and Jbadim, 34, who say that Flat White made them appreciate a different style of coffee.

" They choose beans from Special places. We realized that what we used to drink was not coffee, "says Mohammed, referring to more widespread Western brands.

Arab coffee has been a mainstay of the beverage culture in the region for thousands of years. Chemex coffee, made in a specially designed glbad bottle, costs 26 Qatari riyals – about $ 7 (six euros). The UBS financial services group has discovered that a cup of coffee in Doha is the most expensive in the world, with an average cost of $ 6.40.

A photograph taken on [8 juin 90] 2018 shows the outside of the "Flat White" cafe with its neon-lit signboard in the Doha's Tawar Mall.

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Specialty Cafés Arise in Doha

In the Qanat Quarter, an upscale neighborhood On the scale of the Venice neighborhood, cafes with names such as "Volume" and "Artist Cafe" were born

. The emerging "hipsterism" is not limited to coffee. A boutique specializing in breakfast cereals opens its doors, as well as the first vegan restaurant in Qatar.

And its reach extends beyond the Gulf State, with Qatari coffee shops in London – in the exclusive district of Mayfair. The British press – as well as a gastro-burger restaurant close to the company owned by Qatar, Harrods.

Qatar previously relied on its neighbors for most of its imports and had to adjust its supply fundamentally after the start of the Gulf blockade.

As part of efforts to reduce the country's dependence on imports, Qatar now wants to open its first coffee roasting plants due to strong local demand

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