Coffee News.

Clark’s Coffee has opened at 3356 SE Belmont Street in Portland, bringing specialty coffee back to the former Stumptown corner in Sunnyside. The first permanent cafe from Clark Johnson and Ricky Rickman serves coffees roasted with Portland’s Specialty Coffee Supply, plus espresso and filter drinks in a refreshed version of the long-running space.

Why it matters: the address has real weight in Portland coffee history, but the more useful news is that an independent, locally rooted operator has made it a current stop again. Clark’s creates a reason to route through Belmont for readers who value a new coffee programme rather than nostalgia alone.

Round K has reopened at 78 Canal Street on the Lower East Side, New York, with founder Ockhyeon Byeon back at the centre of the renovated cafe. The independent coffee bar is returning with a pared-back coffee programme, house roasting in Brooklyn and V60 and Kalita filter service alongside espresso.

Why it matters: the reopening restores a recognised independent name to a useful downtown New York coffee route. Its focus on its own roasting and a quieter, coffee-first room makes this more than a cosmetic refresh, while the Canal Street address is practical for readers moving between the Lower East Side and Chinatown.

Cuvée Coffee has opened an all-day coffee-to-cocktail flagship at The Code in South Austin, Austin. The long-running local roaster is using the hotel-and-residential setting for a fuller service format, while keeping specialty coffee at the centre of the daytime offer.

Why it matters: this is a meaningful new room from an established Austin coffee name rather than a routine branch. It is useful for readers planning a south-side coffee stop that can stretch into food or an evening drink, and it signals how local roasters are testing hospitality-led formats beyond the conventional morning cafe.

Tokyo Brew Lab has opened near Nicoll Highway in Singapore as a Japanese-style pour-over coffee bar by day and Hanoi Story Bar by night. The new venue at The Concourse pairs drip coffee with a vinyl-lined room and shifts into an Asian craft-beer bar after the coffee service ends.

Why it matters: Singapore has no shortage of polished cafés, but this is a more focused, coffee-first daytime proposition with a clear brewing identity and a distinctive day-to-night format. Its Nicoll Highway location also gives visitors a reason to look beyond the better-known central specialty clusters when planning a coffee stop around Kampong Glam or the Kallang side of town.

:3Coffee Roasters has signed a lease for a new retail location at 30 Halletts Point in Astoria, New York, according to the development’s August announcement. The lease is a credible early opening signal rather than a confirmed service date, but it identifies the operator and address clearly enough to put the project on the radar.

Why it matters: Astoria has steadily become more interesting for coffee beyond Manhattan and central Brooklyn, and a roaster-led arrival at Halletts Point could make the waterfront development a more useful stop. We will watch for an opening date and a fuller account of the coffee programme before treating it as a guide-ready recommendation.

Goodboybob has opened a café in Hudson, New York, part of a July expansion that also added a Venice, Los Angeles location for the Southern California roaster. The Hudson site brings the company’s coffee into a new upstate setting while its Los Angeles room takes over a former coffee operation inside the Deus Ex Machina gallery and workshop.

Why it matters: the Hudson opening is the more useful travel signal for New York coffee planning, while the simultaneous Venice move shows a roaster building a genuinely bi-coastal retail footprint. It is worth watching how the two rooms develop their coffee programmes as Goodboybob prepares a broader Hudson remodel.

Market Lane Coffee has opened a compact new café on St Georges Road in Fitzroy North, Melbourne, extending one of the city’s most established specialty-roasting networks into a busy inner-north strip. The new counter is positioned as a small, coffee-led stop rather than a full service café, with Market Lane’s familiar emphasis on carefully sourced, seasonal coffee.

Why it matters: Fitzroy North is already rich in good neighbourhood food, but a dedicated Market Lane bar gives visitors a reliable filter-and-espresso stop on the way between Carlton, Brunswick and the Merri Creek side of Melbourne. It is a practical addition for a coffee-focused day rather than merely another general café opening.

Puny Platypus Coffee has moved from a home-based project into a permanent bar at Promenade @ Pelikat in Singapore, with former Atlas Coffeehouse barista Zac Tan behind the counter. The compact room is centred on espresso and filter coffee, including a Mont Blanc-style iced black coffee with sea-salt milk foam and orange zest.

Why it matters: Singapore’s stronger openings are often easy to miss once they land outside the central café clusters. This is a focused, coffee-first independent to add when planning the north-east side of the city, rather than another broad brunch-led launch.

Sarutahiko Coffee has launched Coffee Spark in Tokyo, a new carbonated-coffee series led by Coffee Spark Cola and a seasonal watermelon Jellatte, available from 4 August through 14 September. The Ebisu-born specialty-coffee company says the drinks are built to explore coffee in a lighter, sparkling format while its regular coffee programme continues across participating shops.

Why it matters: This is a specific, time-bound menu change from one of Tokyo's established specialty-coffee names, not a routine café promotion. It offers a useful summer planning cue for readers interested in how serious roasters are translating coffee into seasonal, non-espresso formats.