Nylon Coffee Roasters

Nylon Coffee Roasters is a specialty coffee roaster with a coffee bar at Everton Park, a quiet estate of public housing blocks near Tanjong Pagar. The bar sits next to the roastery, so you can drink a cup and buy a bag of fresh beans in one stop.

Partners Dennis Tang and Jia Min Lee opened Nylon in May 2012. The name joins New York and London, two cities where they lived and worked before coming home to Singapore. It is now a well-known stop on Singapore's specialty coffee scene, and the brand also runs a café in Fukuoka, Japan.

What to order

Coffee is the focus here. The bar serves espresso drinks and filter coffee, made with beans from the roastery next door. The line-up changes through the year, because Nylon buys coffee by season and only stocks fresh crops. Recent coffees have come from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Ethiopia.

Order a filter coffee if you want to taste one origin on its own. Pick an espresso drink with milk if you prefer something more familiar. Bags of whole beans are sold at the bar, and the online shop adds brewing gear and subscriptions.

How Nylon sources and roasts

Nylon aims for long-term, direct relationships with coffee producers. The team travels to farms and cooperatives to see how its coffees are grown and processed. For some origins, it buys through a small group of trusted exporters. It signed the Transparency Pledge in 2022 and is a member of 1% for the Planet and World Coffee Research.

Nylon roasts on an IMF machine. It aims for coffee that tastes sweet, balanced and clean, so you taste the farm rather than the roast.

The setting

The coffee bar is on the ground floor of an HDB block, the type of public flat where most Singaporeans live. Potted plants fill the space inside and out, and the mood is calm. Many customers are regulars, and the team is happy to chat about the coffee.

Good to know before you go

• Daytime only: this is a daytime coffee bar, so plan a morning or early afternoon visit. It closes on Tuesdays, so check the website for current hours.
• Finding it: look for block 4 of Everton Park and unit #01-40 on the ground floor.
• Take some home: a bag of whole beans is an easy souvenir to pack.

Nearby

Everton Park sits on the edge of Tanjong Pagar. Our guide to Tanjong Pagar and Keong Saik has ideas for where to eat and drink next. For more coffee stops, browse our cafés and bakeries or read our café and coffee guides.

Curious about the local brew too? Learn how to order kopi at a traditional coffee shop. You can also read about life in the Singapore heartlands, or find more places to eat in Chinatown and Tanjong Pagar. Beans and brew guides are on the Nylon Coffee website.