1. The Cookie Dough Café – Found in locations all over the USA (including Wisconsin)
The first café on the list isn't even a café at all! Created by two sisters, The Cookie Dough café provides safe-to-eat cookie dough sold at many retailers throughout the United States. These doughs come in four different flavors including chocolate chip, monster, naked, and cookies and cream. They're also available online for purchase!
2. Cereality – Locations in Virginia and Texas
Cereality is a café and cereal bar with locations within the United States. The idea, the owners say, came from a love of cereal at all hours of the day; they said that all around them people were obsessed with satisfying their cereal needs by any means possible. They have thousands of brands of cereal even ones that they had to ship in from China. In these cafés, pajama-clad servers let you choose your brand and toppings before giving you milk so you can have your cereal just the way you like it.
3. Horror Picture Tea – Paris, France
In this quirky and chic café, you can get a lot more than just a cup of coffee. You can not only hear live music and get a slice of cake, but get a tattoo as well. The menu includes wild concoctions such as mango macaroons and lemon and rosemary religieuse. Concerts are usually Thursday and Friday, and a DJ plays till 2 am on Saturdays.
4. The Grounds – Alexandria, Australia
The Grounds is an Australian Café that has captured the hearts of the locals and tourists. On weekends throughout the year, The Grounds holds markets where you can buy and sell homemade treats and even visit a petting zoo. Year round, the café sells amazing coffee that is researched in its very own facility that can be seen in the café, they select only the best for their customers. Currently, they are making coffee imported from Brazil.
5. 100% Chocolate Café – Tokyo, Japan
This chocolate café is dedicated to chocoholics. They offer up to fifty-six different kinds of chocolates that can be bought by the square. Beyond the chocolate squares, this café offers chocolate cakes, various forms of chocolate milk, drinks, and a chocolate for each day of the year.
6. Snickarbacken 7 – Stockholm
Located in the center of Stockholm, this café will keep you busy for hours looking at the beautiful art gallery included inside. The café serves lunch and dinner and offers a wide variety of treats that they say “are made with love." Besides an art gallery and the café, there is a store that beholds many unique buys ranging from cute children's clothes to magazines and books.
7. Dreamy Camera Café – Yangpyeong, South Korea
The owner of the Dreamy Camera Café and his wife designed a café to look just like a Rolleiflex twin-lens camera. It began with owner Park Sung-Hawn's love for photography and took off from there. They built this café with the intention that it would not function like a regular café. They built it with the intention to create a space where people could come and tell their stories and have a place to dream.
8. Neko Café – Japan
This next café isn't a specific café, but a type of café that has popped up in over 100 different locations in Japan. The term Neko means cat in Japanese. So essentially these cafes are cat cafés. You can sit around drink coffee and snuggle with a cute feline friend. These cafés tend to be a very hot spot for couples in Japan.
9. Molecule – New York City, East Village
Molecule, aka the water café isn't serving people lattes, but instead water. The café takes New York City tap water and filter it down until it's in its purest form using a twenty thousand dollar machine! They then have the option to add minerals and vitamins to this water. This café allows for patrons to take home by the gallon or just stop in for a sip.
10. The Sweatshop – Paris, France
The Sweatshop in Paris is another dream-based café idea. The café is lined with tables that include a SINGER sewing machine on each. Here you can fix a hem, or sew a dress all while sipping on a piping hot cup of coffee. They also provide classes that customers can sign up for to learn the tricks of the trade. This café was built with the intention of creating, and transforming.
