The Coffee Market Lab in Osaka is a recommendation provided just before we flew off to Japan. It also happened to be really close to the hotel we stayed at so we made it a point to drop by to check it out. I tend to be a bit skeptical when the shop is full of tourists and I must say most of the people in the shop were tourists with a few locals coming in to do take aways. However, that skepticism went away the moment we had our first sip.

I first visited Covert Coffee in 2023 back when there was only one branch and back when it was mostly featuring other roaster beans like Glitch. This time in 2025, i was so pleased to see that Covert coffee now serves only their own beans.