Bacha Coffee opens multi-format Beijing store, launches Riyadh outlet

Bacha Coffee continues its global rollout with two high-profile openings that underline the chain’s focus on immersive specialty coffee experiences. The brand launched a 210-square-metre multi-format site in Beijing’s China World Mall and opened a 250-square-metre flagship at Riyadh’s Solitaire Mall, bringing boutique retail, takeaway service and intimate coffee-room seating to two of Asia and the Middle East’s growing specialty coffee markets.

Inside Retail and Retail News Asia describe the Beijing store as a combined retail boutique, takeaway counter and a 25-seat Coffee Room. The boutique sells loose and packaged coffees, gift boxes and accessories while Coffee Masters are on hand to assist customers and grind beans to order. Design cues draw on Bacha Coffee’s Moroccan roots, with the company characterising the space as a multi-sensory journey that celebrates traditional preparation techniques and coffee gastronomy.

Bacha Coffee’s official press material frames the Riyadh outlet as the brand’s first Saudi flagship and an important international milestone. “Bacha Coffee makes its highly anticipated debut in Saudi Arabia with the opening of its first flagship at Riyadh’s Solitaire Mall, one of the Kingdom’s most sophisticated new destinations,” the press text states. It adds that the Riyadh site “seamlessly unites a unique alfresco terrace, an intimate coffee room, and a takeaway concept in a single captivating destination, presenting the savoir-faire of 100% Arabica specialty coffee to life in every cup.”

The openings reinforce a product proposition centred on provenance and craft. Multiple outlets report Bacha offers more than 200 specialty coffees, all 100% Arabica and sourced from 35 coffee-growing regions. Features noted by Formesdeluxe include a menu that champions filtered coffee served in elegant copper gooseneck kettles and beans that are hand-roasted in the brand’s Marrakech workshops.

Taha Bouqdib, President and CEO of V3 Gourmet, places the new stores in a wider narrative of heritage and modern retail theatre. “Our new location is designed to spark the curiosity of our guests, much like how coffee takes us on journeys to distant locales,” he said. “We’ve blended the old with the new in a single experience, honoring our past while paving the way for the future, with 100% Arabica specialty coffee taking center stage in this vibrant scene of life.”

Readers tracking specialty coffee expansion should note that published totals for Bacha’s footprint vary. Retail News Asia and Inside Retail state the brand operates 42 stores in 16 cities worldwide, while Formesdeluxe reports 36 boutiques across 12 markets. GCRMAG lists a further set of markets where the group is active and highlights aggressive expansion plans in Japan, Paris and Macau.

For coffee lovers, the immediate payoff is more access to carefully curated single-origin selections and in-store service that grinds and prepares beans to order. For the market, these openings signal luxury coffee concepts moving beyond tourist zones into business districts and premium malls. Expect further rollouts in key capitals and the high-stakes Ginza flagship on the radar as Bacha pursues bigger presence in Japan and Europe.