Daily Whisk Matcha

SPECIALTY

1114 11th Avenue, Honolulu, 96816

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Daily Whisk Matcha lives inside Ten Tomorrow, a small boutique on 11th Avenue in Kaimuki. The cafe is a counter and a few seats out front. Matcha is the program and the discipline. Drinks are whisked to order with a chasen, the bamboo whisk used in the Japanese tea ceremony, using Uji-sourced organic matcha. The matcha-cano is the unsweetened version, an Americano-shaped argument for what good matcha tastes like without sugar. The lilikoi soda and the chilly matcha lemonade run lighter. Coffee comes from Tradition Coffee Roasters, treated as a side conversation, not the main one. Mornings draw the Kaimuki regulars who walked over and the boutique's customers who stayed longer than they meant to. Order the matcha-cano if you want to taste matcha without the milk and the syrup getting in the way. Order the lilikoi soda if it is hot out and you want something brighter.

About Honolulu

Honolulu coffee runs across two registers at the same time. The Kaimuki bench, where neighborhood regulars settle in for a Saudi cardamom pour at Mirage Art and Coffee on 10th Avenue, a chasen-whisked Uji matcha at Daily Whisk inside Ten Tomorrow, or a Kona pour-over at Bean About Town on Waialae. And the downtown corridor through Fort Street Mall and Waimanu, where Drip Studio HNL anchors the contemporary specialty register and Cafe VNTG runs a Brazilian-leaning bar inside a vintage furniture warehouse in Kakaako.

Coffee here grows on the islands. Kona, Kau, and Maui lots show up alongside Ethiopian and Yemeni preparations. Most cafes pour something local. Bean About Town runs a 100% Kona program with the SL34 and Red Bourbon lots when they are in season. Talk Kaimuki, which Liz Schwartz opened as Coffee Talk in 1995 at the Waialae and 12th Avenue intersection, still runs a Sumatran-forward house program and the haupia latte regulars built years ago.

The neighborhood map is the city. Kaimuki holds the slow Saturday-morning bench. Kakaako runs the contemporary cafes around the SALT block. Downtown and Chinatown stretch from Fort Street Mall to Waimanu Street. Waikiki holds the visitor-volume rooms including the Junbi matcha bar at Royal Hawaiian Center and the Dean and Deluca outpost on Kalakaua. The result is a small city that drinks more carefully than its population would suggest, and a circuit that crosses three or four neighborhoods inside a half-day walk.