别在市区转了！9月去山野“微出逃”，喝杯不一样的咖啡

Brief (coffeeyo.com): As September turns cooler than usual, Chao News points readers to a few privately favoured Hangzhou mountain-and-forest cafés — from a café built inside an aircraft in Anji to a thatched lookout over the tea terraces of Jingshan and a bamboo-wrapped hideaway by West Lake.

Chao News app — Correspondent Wu Xiafan, Reporter Tang Jiayun.

This September has been cooler than usual, and the past couple of days have even felt like deep autumn. As the summer heat recedes and the autumn mood sets in, Chao News reporters recommend a few privately favoured Hangzhou mountain-and-forest cafés from the check-in list, each with its own distinctive character. Step into forests, tea hills and bamboo seas, and turn a coffee break into an autumn day trip.

The “Forest Route” Café in Anji

Have you ever imagined that drinking coffee could be tied to “flying”?

Deep in the forests of Anji, beside the Yunshang Grassland, a new restaurant-café called “Forest Route” recently opened — its owner literally brought an “aeroplane” into the woods.

A café space converted from a full aircraft model. Looking out from the cabin windows, you see endless bamboo seas; below, a tidal waterfall and stream. The admission coffee voucher is an actual “boarding pass” — stepping into the cabin feels like boarding a flight to the forest.

Besides cabin seating, there are outdoor terraces and shallow streams for wading. Adults sip coffee overlooking the bamboo; kids can play in the water and tackle the forest ropes course. At dusk, wait for the mountain sunset as evening breeze, bamboo and coffee aromas mingle.

The Forest Route café converted from an aircraft model in Anji

Forest Route Coffee.

If coffee alone feels a bit plain, pair it with a day trip around Yunshang Grassland. Hit the alpine attractions at Yunshang in the morning, then descend to Forest Route in the afternoon to hide among the bamboo, sip coffee and trace the stream to the waterfall. One calm, one active — two woodland experiences packed into a single day.

The “LOOKOUT” Café in Jingshan

There are always places that instantly awaken your dormant senses.

Among the many tea hills of Jingshan stands one that is especially distinctive. At the high point of the tea plantation in Xiaogucheng Village, Jingshan, rises a thatched-roof building — LOOKOUT Jingshan Café — whose location is nothing short of inspired.

The drinks centre on Jingshan tea, Jingshan matcha and coffee, the signature being the Jingshan matcha coffee series, turning the local boast that “all matcha under heaven comes from Jingshan” into a specialty blend.

LOOKOUT Jingshan Café overlooking the tea terraces (Photo: Jingshan Town People's Government)

Photo source: Jingshan Town People’s Government.

Order a “tea-coffee” infused with Jingshan elements or a cup of Jingshan tea, sit on the second-floor terrace, and take in the rolling tea fields up close and the boundless green farmland beyond. Everywhere the eye lands is healing.

A wall of floor-to-ceiling glass frames the green outdoors without reservation — visitors call it the “prime photo spot”. Sit by the window with a coffee and drift off; before you, the green flows.

Pick a weekend and pair it with a hike on the ancient Jingshan trail and a prayer at Jingshan Temple for a free and easy short getaway.

The “Xiaolu Back Garden” Café by West Lake

If Anji and Jingshan feel too far, this café tucked inside the West Lake scenic area, at No. 333 Wengjiashan, is the top pick. Perched high on Wengjiashan and wrapped in a quiet bamboo grove, winding up the mountain path feels like stumbling into a hermit’s back garden.

Floor-to-ceiling glass draws the whole bamboo grove’s green indoors, and sitting within brings a sense of secluded peace, cut off from the world.

The Xiaolu Back Garden café surrounded by bamboo by West Lake

HIGHCLIFF Xiaolu Back Garden.

The café’s outdoor courtyard overlooks a whole sweep of tea hills and the scenery below. Order an osmanthus latte with a tea-jelly Basque cheesecake, watch the sunset tint the sky, and listen to the bamboo rustle in the wind — time slows right down.

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