The Living Room: A 24-hour Café-bar and Coffee Roastery

Coffee roasted in the room, cocktails after dark

Coffee anchors The Living Room, which roasts its own and sits inside The Social House in the Nairobi suburb of Lavington as a café-bar rather than a small espresso counter. The rest of the offer widens from there into wine, cocktails, casual dining and take-outs, arranged so the same room can carry a morning cup and an evening drink without changing character.

The room changes job as the day moves

It describes itself as a day-to-night social club and gathering space, and that is the honest read: an informal hang-out that shifts from café use to social drinking to culture-led gatherings in the same seats. The listening bar is the clearest signal of intent, putting music-led programming inside a café-bar setting rather than treating sound as background, and cultural moments are programmed on top of it.

Order coffee first

Coffee is the safest first order, because the roastery is the part of the operation the venue is proudest of and the one thing it does in house. Cocktails and wine are the public face of the bar side, and casual dining runs alongside without claiming a chef-led kitchen. Approach it as a coffee-led café-bar with food available and music in the room, strongest on its own roasting.