Cozy Zephyr is a small coffee shop in Sendai's Aoba Ward, open since 2006. We roast our own beans in-house, brew by hand, and keep the music low enough to think.
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We roast a small batch every week, adjusting the profile by hand. What's in the hopper is what we brewed last Tuesday.
Tables are yours for as long as you need them. We do not set timers or hover. Order once, stay two hours.
Our menu shifts with our bean selection, not according to set dates. Currently we're serving an Ethiopian Yirgacheffe and a…
Sendai's autumn arrives quickly. By mid-September the evenings are already cool enough to want something warm in your hands, and by October the mornings have a sharpness that makes the walk to the shop feel purposeful. The season also happens to coincide with the arrival of new-harvest beans from the northern hemisphere, which makes autumn the most interesting time of year at the pour-over bar.
Read more →Most coffee is roasted somewhere else and shipped to the cafe that serves it. By the time it reaches the grinder, it might be two weeks old, or four, or more. That gap is not a scandal, but it does change what ends up in your cup. At Cozy Zephyr we have been roasting in-house since 2009, and the difference is not subtle.
Read more →We offer both V60 and Chemex at the pour-over bar, and the question we get most often is: what is the difference? The honest answer is that they produce noticeably different cups from the same beans, and which one you prefer depends on what you are looking for.
Read more →Tsuyoshi Komatsu opened Cozy Zephyr in Sendai in 2006, starting with a second-hand La Marzocco machine he bought from a closing cafe in Kyoto and a handful of regulars who came in mostly for the warmth. He roasts a small weekly batch in-house, adjusting the profile by hand depending on the season and the bean's origin. Today he runs the counter himself most mornings, handles all the roasting, and occasionally closes early on Tuesdays when a new green-bean shipment needs sorting. He started the place because he wanted somewhere he himself would want to sit for two hours without being rushed.
