Peking University, September 26, 2022: Strolling around the campus in the early-autumn winds, you will easily find yourself walking into a café for a break. As you enter, you can hear the chorus of people’s chatters and the keyboard clatters, amidst the rich aroma that lingers in the air…

Come and open this "PKU Café Guide," and hopefully you’ll find your perfect corner at a PKU café, immersing yourself in books and finding inspiration within.

Let this journey begin!


 
Though having recently relocated, the Paradiso Coffee still hosts a large group of people, new and existing customers alike. It is a place where the stars hang around at night, like a blaze of starlight above you. With the aroma of roasted coffee beans lingering in the air, you’ll find yourself hanging in the café, reluctant to leave. This is a place that has witnessed the endless flows of imagination.

Location: Ground floor, south side of Jiayuan Canteen
Business hours: 07:00-23:00 (Monday to Sunday)

   

The new coffee shop in the Centennial Lecture Hall extracts the light of art. Here it lurks the magic that makes time freeze. You’ll find happiness in every cup of coffee you drink, a sip of utopia that grows in your inner world. You will find time flies outside the window. But behind the windows in the café, time ambles quietly and slowly.

Location: 1st Floor, West Gate, Centennial Lecture Hall
Business hours: 09:00-21:00 (Monday to Sunday)

 

  
Immersed in the coffeehouse and engrossed in conversations in a cosy afternoon, you will find yourself covered in the golden shadows of dusk and bathed in the warm yellow light in 3W Coffee.

Location: Basement 1, Second Teaching Building
Business hours: 09:00-20:30 (Monday to Sunday)


   
The aroma of Mellower Coffee fills the entire Second Teaching Building. In here, multiple machines line the bar tables, the hot coffee brewing under high-pressure, and the seasoned baristas and the creamy latte art, all radiating a happy vibe.

Location: 1st floor, Second Teaching Building
Business hours: 07:30-30:30 on weekdays; 07:30-20:00 on weekends




At Pin Café, exquisite desserts always go best with a cup of coffee. The morandi-colored chandeliers embellish the whole bar. Among the neatly arranged utensils, petite yet exquisite accessories occasionally bump into your sight. In this bright and beaming environment, you can choose to do your schoolwork, or simply relax in an air of serenity.

Location: 1st floor, Law School Chen Ming Building
Opening hours: 10:00-18:00 (Monday to Saturday)

   


The space design of Sketch Coffee is graceful and elegant. Walking in it and you can find yourself basking in the warm glow of afternoon light. In the velvet texture of the milk and the rich aroma of the coffee, you’ll find the energy you need to boost your day. 

Location: Second floor, PKU College of Architecture and Landscape (200m north opposite of the PKU East Gate)
Business hours: 09:00-21:00 (Monday to Sunday)




Yunnan coffee beans are curated to craft an oriental taste. It melts in the mouth, radiating a warm and mellow taste, just like the sunlight.  At Loongivecafe, you can sit comfortably around in a corner and feel the tiredness escape your body.

Location: First floor, PKU School of Government
Business hours: 08:30-17:00 (Monday to Friday)


Other than the above mentioned cafés, Yan Yuan also houses many other convenient pick-up coffee stations, such as luckincoffee and ParCafé, in which you can relax and do you schoolwork.

What are you waiting for? Start café-hopping with your friends!

Writer: Vissly Chan
Editor: Meng Bin
Photos: Zhu Chengxuan, Aogu Kailin, Liu Yixing, Wu Bairong, Shi Zhuming