As a storied fashion and lifestyle magazine with numerous editions across the planet, L’OFFICIEL knows a thing or two about the finer things in life. Snapped up in 2022 by hybrid Hong Kong-based conglomerate AMTD Group, the magazine has hailed a new era with the opening of a branded café, aptly called L’OFFICIEL COFFEE, in Tokyo‘s upscale Aoyama shopping district. The café concept has been developed by local edition L’OFFICIEL Japan, which secured a prominent location just off bustling Omotesando dori and a leading architect for the project. Occupying 160 sqm. (1,722 sq.ft.) set across three floors of a modern structure built in 2002, the venue features an interior design by Tokyo-based architect Keiji Ashizawa. The various settings of the café are contemporary and welcoming, but see design elements and furnishings blended in which are clearly a nod to L’OFFICIEL‘s Parisian roots.
If you ask us, it’s an ideal place where to sit back and relax while power shopping in the Aoyama area. Before visitors enter the premises, they need to traverse a small terrace with seating space. Inside, on the ground floor, an elongated, full-fledged service counter anchors the setting, surrounded by sofas and benches. A staircase with elegant wrought iron and wood railing leads to the first floor where more seating can be found with a library-like backdrop of arched bookcases, prominently featuring L’OFFICIEL editions of course, and a side wall clad in a myriad of L’OFFICIEL magazine covers. Next to additional seating, the top floor comes with a stylish, well-stocked bar. The menu of L’OFFICIEL COFFEE lists various coffee concoctions and other beverages, pastries and small bites, and as said, a variety of alcoholic drinks which come in quite handy when the power shopping proved to be a tad too draining. © superfuture
L’OFFICIEL COFFEE
3-8-5 Kita Aoyama (Aoyama)
Tokyo 107-0061
Daily 9am-8pm
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