Brewing the Aroma of 2nd Chances

Speciality coffee, roasted and poured by people writing a new chapter.

Live Our bars 142,587 drinks since 1 Jan 61,970 pulled on espresso 224 dial-ins loggedUpdated 24 Oct, 5:00 PMSee the numbers

Roasted in Singapore

Fresh from our drum

Four roasts a week at Maxwell Road. Every bag leaves us within two weeks of roasting, while the aromatics are at their peak.

See every bean

Marginality is not destiny

Every cup is someone's second chance.

Since 2017 we have trained and hired people coming home from prison, young people at risk and adults starting over — real wages for real craft, behind a real bar.

A barista making drinks behind a café bar
  • 120Lives hired
  • S$1.7MWages paid
  • 2017Pouring since
  • 4Cafés open

Live from our bars

Every cup counted. Every shot dialled in.

We run our cafés on numbers, not hunches — every sale, every morning’s test shot and every hour on shift, logged as it happens.

See every café’s numbers
  • 142,587drinks

    Served since 1 January

    3,141 this week · 47 today

  • 43%espresso

    What we pour

    43% on espresso · 6,132 pour-overs

  • 224dial-ins

    Espresso dial-ins logged

    Since 24 Aug · 0 today

  • Our team in 2026

    People restarting life, working our bars

    Hours
    6,978
    Days
    854
    People
    20

    98% of every hour on our rosters this year. Counted from our time clocks, which began on 14 June.

  • RAMU 17,323
  • The Gateway 971
  • Downtown 167
  • Office Bar 124,126

Updated 24 Oct, 5:00 PM, from our tills, our baristas’ dial-ins and our time clocks. Refreshed while our bars are open.

Our cafés

Come in for a cup

Every flat white you order pays for a learner's next shift behind the bar.

Every café and its hours

Google reviews

What our guests say

Read what guests say about The Caffeine Experience at the URA Centre — and leave a review of your own.

Read and write reviews on Google (opens Google Maps)

Reviews are written on Google by our guests.

Built alongside

Our partners

  • Yellow Ribbon Singapore
  • Singapore Prison Service
  • Temasek
  • Lee Foundation
  • NVPC
  • raiSE — Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise
  • ASEAN Coffee Federation
  • Singapore Coffee Association
  • Breakthrough Missions
  • The Helping Hand

Stay close

Fresh-roast news, now and then

New roasts, café openings and stories from behind the bar.

We'll email you about new roasts, our cafés and The TCE Academy. Unsubscribe any time. Privacy policy.

• — ♦ — •

Soli Deo Gloria

To God alone be the glory.

The Caffeine Experience · Brewing the Aroma of 2nd Chances

Photos: quan le, Sixteen Miles Out and Maurice Sardison on Unsplash.