Society

If an excellent cup of coffee with a sumptuous breakfast makes your day, visit Society Saadiyat Abu Dhabi in Mamsha Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi. Entice your taste buds with a piccolo and an eggs benedict generously drizzled with dreamy hollandaise, or awaken your senses with an espresso and a grilled cheese brioche with marinara sauce.

Society is one of the best Mamsha Al Saadiyat cafes and food spots, and it offers beautiful sea views to boot. Give it a visit; we promise it’s worth it.

Location: Soul Beach – Mamsha Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Coffee Architecture

For some, Coffee Architecture is the best coffee shop in Abu Dhabi with a view. Well, it’s located on the Mamsha Al Saadiyat promenade and offers a fantastic view of the Arabian Gulf. The place itself is beautifully and thoughtfully designed.

Make no mistake, however. The coffee is the star. If KFC is the house fried chicken built, Coffee Architecture Abu Dhabi is the shop coffee beans forged. It is a classic coffee shop created by a coffee connoisseur around a passion for everything coffee and how it can bring people together as a community.

Location: Soul Beach – Mamsha Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Local

LOCAL is perhaps the trendiest café in Abu Dhabi. It’s urban, street and chic, and it’s a true community where people come together to shop for new threads and fresh kicks and get scruffy trainers cleaned for a new lease on a (spiffy) life.

It even has a barbershop, so if your bedraggled mane and beard need trimming and shaping, you can go to LOCAL Café Abu Dhabi. Meanwhile, the lifestyle store probably has everything else your life might be missing: honey, perfume, scented candles, lamps, air freshener, incense cones, corkscrews, and basketballs — you name it, LOCAL has it. Of course, it also serves fabulous coffee with sandwiches.

Location: Soul Beach – Mamsha Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Café Artea

The name Café Artea captures the essence of this Mamsha Al Saadiyat restaurant: coffee, food and tea served with a dash of artsy.

Café Artea Saadiyat is one of the places you can go for speciality coffee in Abu Dhabi. Order an espresso or any of the espresso-based classics, or dare to try its range of espresso ‘cocktails’: Voyager, Sunset Lover, Fomo, and so much more. Enjoy your coffee with a smoked salmon sandwich or a wholesome bowl of açaí.

Location: Soul Beach – Mamsha Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Wake n’ Bake

Do a cup of java and a gourmet doughnut seem like a perfect match? If you answered yes, you’re in for a treat at Wake n’ Bake.

Wake and Bake Saadiyat makes all its bread fresh and from scratch every morning. It’s the best café in Abu Dhabi to try if your epicurean cravings swing towards coffee paired with bread and pastries.

Location: Soul Beach – Mamsha Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Art House Café

We’re sure some would agree that the best conversations they’ve ever had happened in a place like Art House Café. It’s a wonderfully quaint, vibrantly colourful place that puts art at the centre of the café experience.

Paint plates, bricks and faces while you wait. Once the food comes — and there’s much to choose from — get into a spirited discussion with your companions about anything or everything under the sun.

Alternatively, you can sip on your cuppa and slow down. In the quiet, you can almost hear the atmosphere and creativity seep into every molecule of your being.  

Art House Café is just that kind of place. Feel free to express or reflect as you enjoy a V60, Chemex or Syphone coffee with a shakshuka or something else equally hearty.

Location: Al Huwelat St – Villa No 15 – 4 Al Falah St, Al Bateen, Abu Dhabi

Blacksmith Coffee Company

Blacksmith Coffee Company coffee shop is devoted to the brew and crafting the best coffee in Abu Dhabi. It’s where you can get single-origin, anaerobic, natural, washed, blended, and all other ways coffee can be classified.

Blacksmith Coffee Company trades directly with farmers, and roasts beans and crafts blends in the UAE. Its coffee shop outlet in Saadiyat Marina District is one of the best sources of sustainably sourced speciality coffee in Abu Dhabi.

Location: NYU Abu Dhabi D2 Bldg – Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hwy, Saadiyat Marina District, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Aptitude Café

If you’d rather enjoy coffee at an outdoor café in Abu Dhabi, head to Louvre Abu Dhabi in the Saadiyat Cultural District. Proceed to the park and look for Aptitude Café. Beyond food and drinks (including its superb coffee), it has an unbeatable view of Jean Nouvel’s masterpiece. It serves food and coffee with a side of Louvre.

Location: Louvre Abu Dhabi Park, Saadiyat Cultural District, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Beverly Café

Beverly Café is one of the many nice cafes in Abu Dhabi. It is warm and cosy and has been serving great food and drinks since 1889. Choose among espresso, filter coffee (including a V60 Panama Geisha), nitro cold brew, and many tea options. You can also pick your coffee (Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, etc.). Try their Arabic coffee, and don’t forget to order the tiramisu! 

Location: Yas Mall, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi

% Arabica Al Bateen

If you like the Scandinavian and minimalist aesthetic, you’ll love % Arabica at Al Bateen. It gives the impression of space — lots of it — with its strikingly stark and uncluttered interior. Enjoy a coffee with a baguette!

Location: Marsa Al Bateen Marina, Al Bateen, Abu Dhabi

The Best Coffee in Abu Dhabi

We believe you’ll love the establishments in the above best-of-the-best list of coffee shops in Abu Dhabi. That said, these coffee shops and cafés barely scratch the surface; you have so many options. They’re a good starting point, though.

Begin your search for the best coffee in Abu Dhabi in Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, an island destination for luxurious and leisurely indulgence. It has, some say, the best speciality coffee in Abu Dhabi.

It certainly has some of the most outstanding restaurants in the emirate. The best restaurants at Al Mamsha, for instance, serve high-quality food, sustainable gastronomy and some of the best-tasting interpretations of various international cuisines — e.g., Niri Sushi Saadiyat for Japanese, Antonia Saadiyat Island for Italian, and Beirut Sur Mer for Lebanese. 

Spend your Abu Dhabi vacation in Saadiyat Island, and start visiting the Island’s many coffee shops, cafés and restaurants. For the best experience and convenience, book your accommodation at one of the hotels to stay at Saadiyat Island.

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