Why go
Three numbered matchas decide the visit at Konveni Matcha Café: No. 1 House Blend, No. 2 Tasty and No. 3 Intense. Everything else on the Hammersmith board, the flavoured drinks, the sweets, the iced options, is built off whichever powder you pick. This is a matcha counter rather than a coffee shop with a green option, and the menu is arranged to make that choice the first one.
Three powders and a board of combinations
No. 1 House Blend is the premium-grade everyday choice, smooth with a low-bitterness umami. No. 2 Tasty is a rare hand-picked leaf, richer and nuttier with a pleasant aftertaste. No. 3 Intense is also hand-picked, with a rounder aroma and a stronger umami push. Ordered side by side they read as a straight line from soft to assertive.
Around them sits a full board of flavour combinations, so a first visit does not have to be a plain latte. The malty ube matcha is the signature that gets pointed at most, and the iced Spanish is the sweet one that still lets the tea through. The sensible route is one flavoured drink to see the house style, then a numbered powder to compare nuttiness, aroma and umami.
A bright room for a focused stop
The room is pared back and quiet, modern and uncluttered, with matcha's green doing most of the colour work. There is proper seating rather than a takeaway hatch, so the drink can be treated as something to sit with.
Service is unfussy about ceremony. Staff will walk through the powders and the combinations without turning it into a lecture, which matters on a menu where the difference between No. 2 and No. 3 is the whole decision. It works as a pause on a West London high street: a concise, intentional order and a calm twenty minutes rather than an afternoon.
Order the iced Spanish, then a numbered powder
If the decision has to be quick, take the iced Spanish. It carries sweetness without burying the matcha, which is the harder trick on a flavoured menu. Ube matcha is the other easy first order, malty and purple-yam sweet.
For the tea itself, work through the numbers: No. 1 House Blend for smooth and low bitterness, No. 2 Tasty for nuttiness, No. 3 Intense for aroma and umami at full strength. Dorayaki is the sweet to look for alongside, the Japanese filled pancake, with lighter pastries also in the case. Food here is dessert-led rather than savoury, so the drink stays the centre of the order.
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Frequently asked questions
How do the three matchas differ?
They run from soft to assertive. No. 1 House Blend is premium grade, smooth and low in bitterness, the everyday choice. No. 2 Tasty is a rare hand-picked leaf, richer and nuttier with a pleasant aftertaste. No. 3 Intense is also hand-picked, with a rounder aroma and the strongest umami of the three.
What should I order first at Konveni?
The iced Spanish, which is sweet without burying the matcha, or the malty ube matcha if the purple-yam flavour appeals. After a flavoured drink, order one of the numbered powders plain to compare nuttiness, aroma and umami. Dorayaki is the Japanese sweet to add, with lighter pastries also in the case.
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