Raku Café

Roma Norte, Mexico City · Japanese · $$

Raku occupies the narrow, precise territory where Japanese café culture meets Mexico City's specialty coffee moment - matcha prepared with a bamboo whisk, pour-overs sourced from Mexican highlands, Japanese milk bread in a city that had barely heard of it until recently. Mexico's Japanese community, largely descended from Meiji-era immigrants who settled in Chiapas and Sonora, has shaped pockets of CDMX's food scene in ways most visitors miss; Raku is one of them, done quietly and well.