Sequoia Bakery and Cafe 美洲杉
With their gleaming La Pavoni espresso machine, light and spacious venue, and fresh Arabica roasters coffee, this bright and cheerful café brings the spirit of the independent Seattle coffee house to Beijing. Pasta (including vegetable lasagna), deli-style sandwiches (i.e. the turkeyberry sandwich) and homemade desserts are available. Order online at the website. Also offers weekly Friday night tastings at 6.30 pm at the Sanlitun branch. Ranging between RMB 50-100, one of the best deals in town with four to five wine samples and simple light snacks
Locations
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- Jianguomen/Beijing Railway Station 建国门/北京站
- Unit 1-1, Bldg 7, Jianguomenwai Diplomatic Compound Unit 1-11, Bldg 7, Jianguomenwai Diplomatic Compound, Chaoyang District
- 朝阳区建外公寓7楼1单元1-1号
- Daily 7am-7pm
- 6501 5503
- Wifi
- Parking available
- ¥¥¥ 50-80 per person
CBD
- CBD CBD
- Unit B36, B1/F, Kerry Centre Mall, 1 Guanghua Lu, Chaoyang District
- 朝阳区光华路1号嘉里中心B1层B36
- Daily 7am-7pm
- 8529 6418
- ¥¥ 30-50 per person
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travel_errrrr
- Joined: Mar 4th, 2011
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Probably going by my knowledge of Beijing this cafe is the best one I had ever happen to go in. You wood really enjoy the food stuff there and I had gone a couple of times and found the service that the cafe renders is also one of the appreciable one.
I hope that any one will surely have a good time there if you entered it.
Thanks,
Sequoia National Park
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One of the Best
- Joined: Mar 23rd, 2010
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Possibly one of the best cafes in Beijing. To reiterate comments already here, everything at Sequoia is fresh. The muffins are a steal at RMB5, they taste homemade unlike the mass produced ones offered at Starbucks, Costa, even Comptoirs, for 3x the price. Same goes for their sandwiches. Their americanos are the best in the city.
The place is a quiet space though a bit hard to find. From the north entrance of the Jianguomen Dip. Residence they are in the first building on your left, there are no signs outside the door.
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cheese cake
- Joined: Feb 27th, 2009
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I went there the first time when a Canadian catering company Culinary Capers borrowed their kitchen to cook for a thanksgiving a few years ago - not sure about their relationship. They had whole turkey for guests to take away as well set dinner for the festival.
Usually, they have their own crew cooking for guests. Their cheese cake is always a heighlight for me. The wet creamy smooth taste reminds me a good foie gras somehow;<
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Refreshing (with an emphasis on the fresh) alternative to places like Subway
- Joined: Jan 10th, 2005
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Sequoia is a refreshing alternative to places like Subway -- really nice, local sandwiches that don't taste like fast food. HEavy duty props to them for their turkey and cranberry sauce sandwich -- one of a kind in Beijing and delicious. The muffins are great as well (try the blueberry).
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Good value
- Joined: Jan 6th, 2009
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A friend of mine pointed out their small cup of black coffee is more expensive than in Starbucks and smaller. I countered that by saying that although it is in fact more expensive, their coffee actually tastes... like... huh... coffee?
The espresso and regular black coffee are quite good and they also supply the usual café staple food: muffins, cookies, brownies, sandwiches. I recommend the cinnamon rolls, they're massive and sinfully delicious.
The staff speaks good english and are corteous; this is a great place to linger on weekend afternoons, especially if you stop by the bookstore on the first floor and arm yourself with books, newspapers and magazines.
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Pasties!
- Joined: Mar 25th, 2006
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Pasty
1. An adhesive nipple-covering designed to reveal as much of the breast as possible while falling short of full toplessness. I assume the word is pronounced “paste-ee” as it derives from “paste” (the coverings are pasted onto the nipple with fixative)
2. A savoury, filled pastry case closely associated with Cornwall in the UK and generally accepted to be delicious. The traditional Cornish pasty (pronounced with a short “a” as in “hat”) contains potato, turnip, onion and beef.
The management at Sequoia café have sensible opted to stock the latter.
In fact, they have two kinds of pasty on offer: chicken and beef. I prefer the beef.
The pasty is designed to be a meal in itself and as such requires no accompaniment though you might consider a beverage for refreshment.
I would recommend asking the staff to heat up your pasty unless you are ordering it “to go”. They speak English here so there’s no need for: “ee ger chicken pasty, err ... he ee bay coffee errr ... with just a little milk shay shay nee”.
If you are the kind of person who insists on going through such a ghastly and embarrassing rigmarole then please don’t do it when I’m within earshot.
Other details of the café?
It’s a café: chairs, tables, cups, saucers. That sort of thing.
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