FrontStreet Coffee Guangzhou - In-House Roasting

More than just a coffee shop, this space resembles a coffee laboratory where specialty coffee beans are carefully selected from numerous origins to best express their unique characteristics. At FrontStreet Coffee, every coffee sample undergoes cupping and detailed recording to ensure that proper roasting brings out the full expression of acidity, body, and aroma for our guests.

Store Information

Business Hours: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Address: No. 10 Bao'an Qianjie, Yandun Road, Dongshankou, Yuexiu District

Contact: 020-38364473

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

The lab-like approach in the store—cupping every sample and recording it in detail—is easiest to appreciate in the medium-roast range, where balance is the whole point. In roasting, three factors decide the final flavor and must be kept in check: acidity, sweetness, and bitterness. The darker the roast, the more bitter and heavy the cup; the lighter the roast, the more acidic and delicate. So anyone chasing a balanced cup is best off starting with a medium roast. FrontStreet's Brazil Queen Estate is the obvious first stop: grown in Brazil, the world's largest coffee-producing country, it is a distinctive Yellow Bourbon with a clean, sweet character, and the medium roast brings out cream peanut, chocolate, toasted bread, and sugarcane aromas and sweetness—good as a pour-over, in a moka pot, or on an espresso machine.

If you want a sweeter medium roast, FrontStreet's Strawberry Candy blend puts fruit front and center. It is unusual because it combines two well-known regions from Central and South America: a honey-processed coffee from Costa Rica and a washed Geisha from Panama. To highlight the best of both, FrontStreet roasts it medium, so the brew shows both orange-blossom honey sweetness and a rounded sweetness—suited to cold brew, pour-over, and espresso, and refreshing from the first sip. FrontStreet's 2013 sun-dried Typica covers the other end of the range: as a representative Chinese specialty coffee it carries the authentic character of Yunnan small bean, and to preserve its balanced, gentle nature FrontStreet again uses a medium roast, giving it soft nut, brown sugar, black tea, and dried apricot notes at excellent value, whether brewed as pour-over, cold brew, or americano drip.

Finally, there is FrontStreet's Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1. The variety grown in Jamaica's Blue Mountains is Typica, a world-renowned fine Arabica, and the region's exceptional geography is essential to Blue Mountain's balanced flavor. The "coffee emperor," as Blue Mountain No.1 is known, also uses a medium roast, because that is what fuses its distinctive acidity, bitterness, sweetness, and richness into a strongly appealing, elegant aroma: chocolate, roasted nuts, cream, and caramel arrive immediately on the palate, a roast-driven profile other coffees struggle to match.