We're jealous of everyone in Ratchaphruek, Nonthaburi, who has this cafe nearby — PRIDE Specialty Tea & Coffee Roasters. It's specialty through and through, carefully sourcing ingredients for tea, coffee, and other drinks, plus various snacks, all under the concept of "Pride," meaning pride and diverse equality. Everyone, of every gender and age, can enjoy the drinks here, swapping the base liquid or milk, adding or removing ingredients to taste (pay what you want).
The light-roast Specialty Coffee Honduras has a whiskey-like fragrance with vanilla cream notes, genuinely wonderful — beans from Honduras are rare. The Santa Lucia leans more nutty-caramel than the Honduras. Summer Coffee is orange juice mixed with coffee and tonic, deliciously refreshing. Besides coffee, there are mocktails too, like UME GINGER TONIC, ginger with tonic and plum water, incredibly delicious, and AMADOU Strawberry Pride, fragrant with strawberry, coffee-free, so kids can drink it too.
The Specialty Tea lineup has 3 types of matcha — Yuri, Kyoto, and Hojicha — served either ceremonially (SlowBar) or as a quick speed-bar drink. The Thai Tea uses their own blend sourced from multiple origins, made with real fresh milk, not the canned kind. For dark cocoa fans, the Dark Cocoa is a must — a slightly bitter finish with rich cocoa fragrance from both the milk and the cocoa powder.