ALL DAY & NORMAL

Roasted beans, drip bags, green coffee, gifts and subscriptions share the room with the bar at ALL DAY & NORMAL, so the shelf matters before the first sip. The Dihua Street counter in Taipei is a roastery and retail room as much as a café, and the same programme that feeds the bar points people toward brewing at home, with named lots and processes printed as part of the decision.

Ethiopian lots with the process on the label

The coffee programme is the reason to cross town. Roasted coffee, drip coffee, coffee gifts, green coffee and subscription plans all sit under one name, which makes this a working coffee brand with a public front rather than a single-drink stop.

The detail is in the named coffees. Ethiopia Guji Shakisso appears as a single-origin drip coffee. Ethiopian Guji Hambela carries 74110 and 74112 varieties across natural and honey processes, and Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Koke Shalaye is washed, with 74110, 74112 and 74165 varieties. That is enough information to choose by method and taste without turning the order into a lecture. The NORMAL side of the name goes back to the end of 2017, when the early position included distinct roasts from roasters around Taiwan, and the present shape keeps that retail-minded seriousness.

A calm room with the work in view

The room is bright and carefully designed, with counter service and an open-kitchen feel rather than a sealed-off bar. It suits a visit where pulling a shot and packing beans belong to the same rhythm. There is polish in the setup without the museum hush that sometimes comes with heavily designed coffee rooms.

The public face is deliberately broad: drinks at the counter, packaged coffee to carry out, drip bags for travel or an office drawer, green coffee for the narrower set of home roasters, and subscription plans for anyone who already knows they will be back. Come when there is time to read the bags, because the choice is not only espresso or filter but origin, process, and whether the coffee is for now or for later.

Start with Guji Shakisso, then take beans home

Order the Ethiopia Guji Shakisso drip coffee first if the decision needs to be simple. It is a named single-origin within the house's own drip programme, and it gives the clearest read on what this roaster does well: traceable coffee made portable without stripping the origin out of it.

If beans are the goal, take the Ethiopian Guji Hambela for the contrast between natural and honey processing, or the washed Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Koke Shalaye for a cleaner frame on similar variety detail. The BRIDGE x ALL DAY drip coffee package is the pick when the gift shelf is part of the visit. The useful move is a cup at the counter, then a bag or a box that suits the way coffee gets brewed at home.