在宋庄，把艺术融进一杯咖啡里In Songzhuang, integrate art into a cup of coffee

零下86℃冰杯，每一杯都是即兴创作

藏身于国防艺术区的双层空间，布景精致到每个角落都能直接出片。但你进门之后，目光会瞬间被一件事攫住——那只覆满白霜的玻璃杯。

店员轻声提醒：“要在一分钟内大口喝完噢。”三口入喉，前调的明亮果酸、中段的坚果焦香、尾韵的巧克力余韵层层炸开。低温锁鲜把咖啡豆的本香牢牢封存，丝滑绵密到不像喝咖啡，更像在“吃”一杯固态的夏天。

藏在宋庄的江南慢庭院

这里没有展签，没有作者署名，只有树影、微风、咖啡香，和你全然放空的状态。老板只是把院子打理好，把豆子烘好，然后把剩下的交给树、光和来的人。

收尾这家，最让人意外。

推门瞬间，满屋绿意扑面砸来——树干从地面一路攀向天花板，枝叶在头顶织成一片穹顶，像是把一整座院子搬进了室内。水泥裸墙、旧木家具、肆意疯长的龟背竹和蕨类——粗粝的工业骨架与野蛮的生命力彼此缠绕，随便寻个角落坐下，都像误入一幅当代静物画。

后院更妙，柿子、山楂缀满青果，窝在露营椅上点一杯招牌特调「不想上班」，搭配手作汉堡，从午后坐到落日西沉也不觉得乏味。汉堡当然好吃，但真正让人挪不动身的，是那种“时间忽然归你所有”的错觉——手机里的日程、脑子里的KPI，被层层绿意过滤得一干二净，只剩下光线在叶脉间无声移动。

If you were to choose a beverage that complements art, what would you choose?

Many people may spontaneously think of coffee.

The Caf é de la Flore in Paris witnessed the birth of existentialism and surrealism; The Four Cats Cafe in Barcelona once captured the youthful figures of Picasso and Dali; The Vienna Central Caf é is closely associated with famous names such as Zweig, Klimt, and Beethoven.

These spaces themselves have become another footnote to art.

So, as an art town, how could Songzhuang lack this charming coffee aroma?

In Songzhuang, a caf é is a place where the owner turns life into a "work" and invites you to sit down and have a drink. The corners that are taken seriously - the ice cups kept at minus 86 degrees Celsius, the tracks of tree shade moving on the ground, and the green plants sprouting from the cracks in the cement walls - are each an art scene created by the owner day after day, and also the days themselves.

The editor has explored three coffee shops for you this time. After strolling around all afternoon, you will find

Every caf é in Songzhuang is an ongoing art scene.

Wendy Wang Cafe

Ice cup at minus 86 ℃, each cup is improvised

Hidden in the double layered space of the National Defense Art Zone, the scenery is exquisite to the point where every corner can be directly filmed. But once you enter, your gaze will be instantly captured by one thing - the glass covered in white frost.

The cup used by the brand Dirty has been stored in an ultra-low temperature freezer at minus 86 ℃ for a long time. When it is served, the cup wall is covered with ice crystals, like an object just taken out of an ice cellar. At the moment when the hot concentration is slowly injected, the coffee oil explodes, layers, and solidifies when it touches the frost - the whole process takes less than ten seconds, like a concentrated seasonal alternation.

The clerk gently reminded: "Drink it in one minute." The three mouthfuls went into the throat, and the bright fruit acid in the top note, the burnt nuts in the middle, and the chocolate aftertaste in the tail were fried layer by layer. Low temperature locking firmly seals the original aroma of coffee beans, silky and dense, not like drinking coffee, but more like "eating" a solid cup of summer.

From the cold visual impact, to the instant tension of the collision between the hot liquid and the ice wall, to the gradual unfolding of flavor in the mouth - a cup of coffee, three acts of drama.

This art scene does not have admission tickets, one cup of Dirty, and you can enter the theater as soon as you sit down.

Business Hours

Monday to Sunday 7:00-18:30

Two trees in a small courtyard

Hidden in the slow courtyard of Jiangnan in Songzhuang

The Treasure Courtyard is named after two old trees in the courtyard. Pushing open the door and stepping in, the heat automatically dissipates. The small bridge flowing water, tent booth, swing chair - they are all embellishments, and the real protagonist is always the shade of those two trees.

In the afternoon, the sunlight filtered through the gaps between the leaves, and the light spots slowly moved on the green brick ground. You sit down below, watching the clouds drift from one tree to another, cats and dogs taking turns rubbing against your ankles, lying down on the spot, knowing better than you how to pass the time.

There are no exhibition signs or author signatures here, only tree shadows, gentle breeze, coffee aroma, and your completely empty state. The boss just takes care of the yard, dries the beans, and then hands over the rest to the trees, the light, and the people who come.

If you are willing to experience it, this is an art scene about 'slow'.

Business Hours

Monday to Sunday 10:30-21:30

Shujing Coffee

The jungle secret realm deep in the alley

Closing this house was the most surprising.

As soon as the door was pushed open, the whole house was covered in greenery - tree trunks climbed all the way from the ground to the ceiling, branches and leaves woven into a dome above their heads, as if they had moved an entire yard into the interior. Cement bare walls, old wooden furniture, wildly growing turtle backed bamboo and ferns - the rough industrial skeleton and savage vitality intertwine with each other. Sitting in any corner feels like entering a contemporary still life painting.

The backyard is even more beautiful, with persimmons and hawthorns adorned with green fruits. Sitting on a camping chair and ordering a signature "Don't Want to Go to Work" cocktail, paired with a handmade burger, doesn't feel boring from the afternoon until the sunset sets. Hamburgers are certainly delicious, but what really makes people unable to move is the illusion of "time suddenly belongs to you" - the schedule in your phone and the KPIs in your mind are filtered out by layers of greenery, leaving only light silently moving between the veins.

The store is pet friendly, with many customers bringing their furry children. The dog was snoring at its feet, while its owner was flipping through books haphazardly.

This painting is exhibited by Songzhuang every day, without any closed days.

Business Hours

Monday to Sunday 10:00-20:00

The coffee aroma in these courtyards of Songzhuang, the slow time under the shade of locust trees, and the ice cups at minus 86 ℃ - have always been there, as usual every day. No need to pick a day, no need to rush, choose a coffee shop that suits you well, walk in, hand yourself a cup of coffee, a chair, and an afternoon - this is the most suitable way to open Songzhuang in late summer and early autumn.

Songzhuang's art is not limited to art museums

Not limited to exhibition halls

Not just coffee shops

On the streets and alleys

In the artist's studio

——Coffee will be finished

But this' art scene 'in Songzhuang

Never closing

Source: China Songzhuang WeChat official account