Just few minutes’ walk from KSL City Mall, on the ground floor of Holiday Villa Johor Bahru City Centre (or Hotel Holiday Villa), a cafe named Space Cafe, opened its door during the pandemic.
Space Cafe’s theme is about “space” — not the outer space in the galaxy but being more spacious. Using simple decorations and spacing the tables far apart, the cafe looked spacious. Near the bar counter, a glass shelf showcased their French pastries, Portuguese egg tarts and more. For those who self-brew coffees at home, try the cafe’s specialty blend using Costa Rica, Brazil and Indonesia coffee beans.
Space Cafe serves several types of special coffee that are rather unique. On the colourful menu for their signature coffees, the Caramel Cinnamon Cafe Latte and Mocha Fantasy are hot coffees while the others are iced. Pick a coffee and order at the bar counter. Aside from the unique coffees, Space Cafe also serves espresso-based coffees and non-caffeine beverages for those who prefers otherwise. They also serves pour-over coffees — ask the barista for the coffee beans of the day.
I tried their special coffees with a pastry each time.
A hot cup of Caramel Cinnamon Cafe Latte (焦糖肉桂咖啡) with a crème brûlée tart. Fresh milk is added to hot coffee brewed from Ethiopia beans, topped with cinnamon powder and melted brown sugar. The cinnamon roll is torched to give off a nice fragrance — use it to stir the coffee or drink with it like a straw. A slice of dried apple adds a slight natural sweetness to the latte. It’s edible too.
The Orange Americano (非橙勿扰) is concocted by adding fresh orange juice, orange zest and lime milk foam to Ethiopia coffee with a slice of dried orange. The tangy, iced coffee comes with a small glass of the single-origin Ethiopia coffee for trying its original taste — probably Ethiopia Yirgacheffe with floral aroma and medium bodied. The sweet and buttery red bean butter bun is really nice.
The Caramel Biscotti Coffee (焦糖饼干咖啡) looks pretty interesting. Pieces of sweet, crunchy honeycomb-like caramel biscotti are added on top of ice-cold fresh milk and the coffee is placed separately in a glass pourer. Pour the coffee on the biscotti and stir to dissolve them all before drinking. The milked Ethiopia coffee with caramel is a cup of sweetened floral coffee but not overly sweet. The salted caramel mixed nuts danish is also not too sweet.
The Prugna Cold Brew Coffee (山楂冷萃咖啡) has some interesting tastes when sipped without stirring the top layer of white viscous cream cheese into the iced coffee. Apart from the light-cheesiness of the creamy cheese, the flavours of the Ethiopia coffee and acidic prugna (or hawthorn) juice are also easy to pick up. Every sip is tasting the three ingredients at the same time. I love this coffee too. I also tried the truffle roll with a pleasant truffle aroma.
A simple cup of cappuccino has a nice aroma and taste to it too — not sure which coffee bean was used though, probably the house blend.
I will try each of Space Cafe’s special coffees and compile a photo collection here. ✌️
Address:
G-11, Holiday Villa, 260, Jalan Dato Sulaiman, Taman Abad, 80250 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
8am to 7:30pm | Daily
How to Get There:
From JB Sentral, take BAS.MY J100 to KSL City Mall. Read JB Bus: To KSL City Mall in Taman Century.
Nearby:
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