Best Cafés in Batam: Coffee, Beach Views, Late Nights and Old-School Kopitiams

Cafés are the easiest way to slow a Batam trip down. This guide sorts them by what you are likely to want, using the hours and descriptions in our place records. Opening hours change, so check the café's own page before a long ride.

The short answer

• Specialty coffee: Tatido Coffee Roasters and Hoods Coffee.
• Views: Alio Beach Cafe, Lakeside Cafe Batam and Bukit Cinta Cafe.
• Open late or all night: Lucys Cafe (24 hours) and De'sands Cafe and Restaurant.
• Near the ferry: MoMoo Juice Bar & Coffee at Harbour Bay.
• Old-school coffee and toast: Awang Kopi and Tempat Makan Kopitiam.

Specialty coffee and a proper cup

• Tatido Coffee Roasters on Jalan Bunga Raya lists over 40 single-estate coffees, plus truffle mushroom cream pasta and a double cheese burger. Open Sunday to Friday 9am to 9pm and Saturday 9am to 10pm.
• Hoods Coffee in Belian is a hand-brew café with Western and Japanese mains such as truffle beef donburi. Open daily 8am to 10pm.
• Lintas Coffee & Space in Teluk Tering is spacious, serving coffee, pasta and flavoured lattes. It opens Monday to Thursday 9am to 11pm and Friday to Sunday 8:30am to 11pm.
• House of Original Coffee in Tanjung Uncang is wood-panelled with an open bar so you can watch the brewing. Dolls and wooden ornaments double as photo backdrops. Open daily 10am to 11pm.
• Soi by Nick is a Penuin alley café by Chef Nick, a top-three finisher on MasterChef Indonesia Season 11. The menu includes Thai Tea Bingsu, brulee cheesecake, a curry croissant and kitten latte-art cappuccino. Open daily 9am to 9pm.
• Common Space Coffee & Bar in Lubuk Baja Kota serves Japanese rice bowls and katsu with coffee, open daily 10am to 10pm.
• Kafe Caffein in Taman Baloi has plush seating, cakes and custom birthday cakes (daily 9am to 8pm).

Cafés with a view

• Alio Beach Cafe is a beachfront café at Bengkong Laut with bean bag seating. Open Monday to Thursday 3pm to midnight and Friday to Sunday 3pm to 1am.
• Lakeside Cafe Batam in Golden City, Bengkong, sits beside Batam Wake Park and looks over a man-made lake strung with lights. It opens in the afternoon and prices are low.
• Bukit Cinta Cafe is an open-air café on a rise off Jalan Yos Sudarso with views over Batam city, open daily 4pm to 2am. The menu runs from Indomie to sop iga and tom yum.
• Veranta Cafe (Desa Alam) is a beach-setting café with a palm-thatched roof on the Trans Barelang road at Galang Baru. Open Monday to Friday 11:30am to 7pm and Saturday and Sunday 10am to 8pm. It is on the way to the bridges; see the Barelang day trip.
• Gazoz Cafe is an Australian-inspired café with pool views in Penuin.

Open late

• Lucys Cafe in Taman Baloi is listed as open 24 hours, mixing nasi ayam sambal matah with pizza and spaghetti bolognese.
• De'sands Cafe and Restaurant is a late-night alfresco café at Golden City, Bengkong. It opens Monday to Thursday 11am to 1am and Friday to Sunday 11am to 2am.
• Olive & Co in Teluk Tering is open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, with wagyu beef rendang aglio olio and a mushroom truffle burger.
• Nongkrong Bray Cafe in Buliang is an evening café popular with young locals and priced for students, open daily 5pm to midnight.

Kopitiams: kopi, toast and early starts

If you want kopi and roti bakar instead of a latte, go traditional. Several open early.

• Awang Kopi is an early-opening kopitiam behind Pasar Botania 2 serving traditional coffee, teh tarik, toast and heavier rice dishes.
• Awang Kupi in Pasar Botania 2 lists bubur ayam, lontong sayur, mi pangsit and prata, open daily 7am to 2pm.
• Mentari Kopitiam Pasir Putih in Sadai opens at 6am for toast, coffee and local breakfast plates.
• Anambas is a traditional kopitiam serving Riau Islands-style coffee with roti bakar, kaya toast and nasi lemak, open daily 7:30am to 7pm.
• Tempat Makan Kopitiam on Jalan Raja H. Fisabilillah is used by office workers and families for kopi susu, teh tarik, toast, noodles and nasi lemak.
• Seloka Kopitiam on Jalan Mitra Raya is used by residents for an unhurried coffee at low prices. Seloka Coffee House inside the Mitra Raya wet market serves homely Indonesian and Straits dishes, including Singapore laksa, bubur Manado and cheese prata.
• Namura Kopi is a modern kopitiam in Tanjung Piayu serving coffee, tea, toast, noodles and nasi lemak in the morning.

For Chinese kopitiam stalls such as mie lendir and bak kut teh, read Chinese food in Batam.

Near the ferry terminal

Harbour Bay has fewer standalone cafés. MoMoo Juice Bar & Coffee at The Promenade serves pasta, pizza and desserts (daily 10am to 11pm), and Harbour Bay Mall beside the terminal has Starbucks and kopitiams (daily 5am to 9pm). See where to eat near Harbour Bay.

Halal and pork notes

None of the cafés in this guide is marked halal-certified in our records. Several menus include Western dishes, and some places serve alcohol. Ask about pork and alcohol before you sit down if it matters to your group. For Western menus and the halal labels we hold, see Western and Italian food in Batam and the halal food hub.

Planning tips

• Hours: several evening cafés open only from the afternoon. Check before you ride out.
• Getting there: cafés in Golden City, Galang Baru and Tanjung Uncang are a drive from the terminals; see getting around Batam.
• More: every café listing is on the cafés map. Cakes and snacks to take home are in the oleh-oleh guide; a massage after coffee is in the spa guide.