Akihiro Okada, owner of Okaffe bar & dolce, has a brilliant track record, including winning the Japan Barista Championship. The new Okaffe bar & dolce (Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto), which opened between his Okaffe kyoto and Okaffe Roasting Park, is located along a back street in a busy city, and its concept is to "coexist with the flow of the city. I got into this business because I admired baristas working in Italian bars. I want people to use the bar, which is a fusion of Italian and Kyoto cultures, as they wish," says Okada.