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The idea

A slow café for people who came here to focus.

Espresso, matcha, and the quiet to actually think.

HINTO

slow down, stay sharp

Quezon City

Now open

Doors open

Tue – Sun · 3:00 PM
Enter
01

Espresso

Every coffee is a double shot, hot or iced, pulled to order. Milk drinks come unsweetened — ask and we sweeten to taste, no charge.

02

Matcha

Maru matcha, whisked to order. Served sweetened, or ask for it without.

03

Pastries

Cookies, crinkles and banana bread by the piece, brownies and cake by the slice. Labeled as we measure them.

04

Room to shoot

Daylight, clean corners, and a wall that photographs well from any seat.

05

Honest macros

Printed on the board, not buried in an app. We measure item by item, so the labeled list gets longer every week.

06

Not only coffee

Keemun, butterfly pea and hibiscus. Chocolate three ways and four lemonades. Nobody at the table has to settle for water.

The beans

One shot, pulled twice.

Every coffee on the board starts the same way: a double shot, 36ml, ground and pulled the moment you order it. Nothing sits in a jug waiting. If the queue is long the drink takes a little longer, and that is the trade we decided to make.

Size is the only thing that changes the coffee. The classics — long black, flat white, cappuccino — are built small and tight at 8oz so the shot still tastes like a shot. The moderns start at 12oz because milk and syrup need the room. Neither gets a third shot to fill the cup; if you want one it is an add-on, and it goes on the label.

The blend is 80% arabica to 20% robusta, roasted medium dark. The robusta is on purpose. It is what puts crema on the shot and keeps a bit of bite in it — a softer all-arabica would read beautifully on its own and then disappear entirely under milk and ice in a 20oz cup.

The roast is built around herbs and dried fruit at the front, brown sugar and sugar cane through the middle, a malic tartness, and chocolate on the finish. It arrives as whole bean at screen grade 18 — large and even, which is the boring reason a grinder can hold a consistent shot all night.

Blend
80% arabica, 20% robusta
Roast
Medium dark
Notes
Herbs, dried fruit, brown sugar, sugar cane, malic acidity, chocolate
Grade
Whole bean, screen 18, ground per order
Shot
Double, 36ml, pulled to order
Classics
Hot 8oz · iced 12oz · iced 16oz
Moderns
Hot 12oz · iced 16oz · iced 20oz
Milk
Unsweetened by default. Sweetened to taste on request, no charge.
Oat milk
Substitute on any drink
Extra shot
Add one any time — it changes the numbers on the board

The matcha

Whisked, not shaken.

We use Maru, and we whisk it to order. Matcha that has been sitting in a bottle since morning goes bitter and separates, so there is no pre-mix behind the counter — the bowl is made when the ticket comes in.

It is served sweetened by default, which is the one place on the board we make the choice for you. Unsweetened matcha is a genuinely different drink and most people are not expecting it. Ask, and you get it without — that is the version several of us actually drink.

Dirty Matcha is the same bowl with a double shot through it. Order it iced if you want the two layers to stay apart long enough to photograph.

Leaf
Maru matcha
Made
Whisked per order, never batched
Sizes
Hot 8oz · iced 12oz
Sweetness
Sweetened as standard — ask for it without
Dirty
Same bowl, plus a double shot

How we label

Measured, or marked pending.

A number on the board means we worked it out for that drink, in that size, as it actually leaves the counter. It does not mean we found a similar drink somewhere and rounded it. An item we have not measured yet says macros pending and stays that way until it is done.

Drinks are counted unsweetened, because that is how they are built. Sweetness is an add-on, so it is priced and counted like one: a pump of syrup is roughly 40 kcal and 10g of carbs on top of whatever the board says. Keeping it separate is what lets you compare two drinks honestly. Matcha is the exception — it is sweetened as standard, so its figure will be too, once it is measured.

When a size changes, the old figure comes down rather than getting stretched to fit. Our matcha moved from a 16oz to a 12oz cup, so the numbers we had are no longer true and we would rather show nothing than show those. Pastry figures are per serving and do not yet include fat, which is the next thing on the list.

Counted
Per drink, per size, as served
Baseline
Unsweetened, with milk as built
Syrup
~40 kcal and 10g carbs per pump, on top
Pending
Not yet measured. Never estimated to fill a gap.
Allergens
Dairy in milk drinks. Shared equipment throughout — tell us before you order.

The room

Sit down and stay a while.

One room, counter service, doors open at three. There is a QR on the table for the wifi and another for the full board, so you do not have to squint at the wall or wait for a gap at the counter.

Scan the wifi QR and you are online for an hour — no code to type, nothing to sign up for. When the hour runs out, ask at the counter and we will give you a voucher code for another one. The extensions are free, so ask as often as you need to. We would much rather hand over a code than have you quietly drop off halfway through something.

There are chairs and tables outside for when the room is full or the evening is worth sitting in. If your group is bigger than the table you landed on, ask at the counter and we will bring more chairs over. We would rather move furniture than watch you perch.

The bookmarks by the counter are free. Take one.

Wifi
Scan the QR on the table — one hour, no sign-up
Extensions
Free. Ask at the counter for a voucher code, as often as you need.
Full board
Second QR on the table links to the whole menu
Outside
Chairs and tables out front
Extra seats
Ask at the counter and we will bring them
Bookmarks
Free. Take one home.
Service
Order at the counter. Tue–Sun from 3PM, some weekends from 11AM.

Find us

Zabarte Road Extension, Quezon City.

A neighbourhood café for focused minds. One room, counter service, doors open at 3. Some Saturdays and Sundays we open at 11 instead — it goes up on our socials when it does, so message us before you set out if you want the early room.

Tue – Sun
3:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Some weekends
From 11:00 AM — ask first
Monday
Closed
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Right now

Tue – Sun 3PM – 12AM · closed Mondays

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