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A Coffee House in Tacloban

The Kofi Chapters

物語の館 — House of Stories

Where every cup is a page, and every page begins with coffee.

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Vol. I · No. 001
Tacloban City, Philippines
Slow Brews✦Good Books✦Quiet Mornings✦Blind Date with a Book✦Single Origin✦Open Daily✦
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Chapter One
Chapter I — The Prologue

A small house built from stories, coffee, and the quiet hours in between.

The Kofi Chapters began the way most good stories do — with someone who couldn't decide between a bookshop and a café, and chose not to. What we built instead is a place where the two share the same table, the same lamp, the same hour of the afternoon.

Every shelf is curated. Every cup is brewed with the kind of patience you only find in pages worth keeping. We serve coffee that pairs well with rain on the window and books that don't mind being interrupted.

Come for a chapter. Stay for the whole volume.

— The Proprietor
The owner and her son sharing a table
Folio · Family, between chapters
01
year brewing
460+
books on shelf
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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

George R.R. Martin
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The Kofi Chapters shelf packed with colourful titles
Now Reading
460+ titles, one quiet room
— Chapter III

The Library is the second menu.

Pull any book off the shelf and read it here, over as many cups as it takes. The catalogue is curated — literary fiction, slow non-fiction, the occasional thriller for rainy days.

No. 01

Read Here

Any book, any chair, any hour we're open.

— On the shelf this week

A few of what's in right now. Tap a spine to pull it out and read its story. Browse the full catalogue →


Read it
here
— A special offering

A blind date with a book.

Books wrapped in brown paper, tied with ribbon, marked only with three small clues. No covers, no spoilers, no judgment. Pick one. Take it home. Fall in love or fall out — either way, you've started something.

Books wrapped in paper with ribbon for a blind date with a book The Kofi Chapters bookshelves where you pick your blind date with a book
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THE PEOPLE
— Between chapters

The house has a family.

The Kofi Chapters is run by a mother and her son, and kept alive by a small team of baristas who know the regulars by name — and their orders by heart. Students on a study day, workers on a break, families on a slow afternoon: everyone gets a chair and a chapter.

The Kofi Chapters team out front
The team, out front
The owner's son with a drink in front of the shelves
The owner 👑
The baristas with their drinks
The baristas

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— Chapter V

Find your favourite chair.

Tacloban City · Eastern Visayas
The Address

A quiet corner off the main road.

Location

Juan Luna Street
Tacloban City, Leyte
Philippines 6500

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The Hours

Open when the light is good.

Monday — Thursday9 AM — 9 PM
Friday — Sunday9 AM — 10 PM

"Last orders, half an hour before close."

No. 001

A letter, once a month.

New books on the shelf. New drinks on the board. No noise.

No. 002

Order ahead & reserve a chair.

Order your cup here, get a QR to show at the counter, and the cashier downstairs is pinged to start brewing — no queue. For students, workers, and every slow reader in between.