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Cafe Hopping

Cooperative Cherny

Pokrovka Street, 31 Chistie prudy 8:30-23:00;
weekends 10:00-00:00 Indie, roasters, Sunday cupping

Cooperative Cherny (in Russian means ‘Black Coopera-
tive’) started as a real cooperative of 5 people working hard
together on this coffee project. Now it has 2 co-owners, who
realized that to build a real coffee community they do not need
to participate in any competitions, but what they do need is to
sell good coffee and educate people on what is specialty coffee
is and why they should drink it. That’s is why, every Sunday
coffee shop organizes coffee cupping and every last Friday of the
month they serve coffee for free as they do not want to work
with old beans. So for them it is better to share good coffee, which
they also roast, for free before it goes bad, than to sell bad coffee.
And as it seemed to us the business is going fine as Cooperative
Cherny recently celebrated its 5th anniversary. The place is not
that easy to find, it does not have any shield or placard saying
about Cooperative’s existence on the street so you have to be
very careful looking for it. This place is great for coffee, but if you
are looking for a snack also you might look somewhere else, as
guys here decided to focus on the coffee only.

West4 Coffee

Ostozhenka Street, 3 14, Kropotkinskaya 8:00-23:00; weekends 11:00-23:00 Roasters

WEST4 was opened in 2014, right after one of co-founders came back from NYC, where he studied,
inspired by the local culture, so as it is not hard to guess they named the café after Manhattan address West4,
they even have a map of New York City so you can easily find this spot in the city. This loft-like space took
its design from owners’ trips to the US: high ceiling, wooden floor and redbrick walls with pictures of own-
ers’ favorite city, NYC. Vinyl records, warm light and smell of freshly brewed coffee makes WEST4 best
place to spend some time working as there is a lot of space and coffee beans, which are also roasted by
WEST4. You can order all kinds of espresso-based drinks as well as locals’ favorite, Raf coffee, also you can
ask for Aeropress, V60 and Chemex.

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