9 Best Matcha Cafés in Singapore 2026: The Best Matcha by Area (Hvala, Matchaya, Tsujiri, Matsu, Kyō & More)

One of Singapore's most refined matcha destinations. Established in 2015, Hvala (Croatian for 'thank you') sources and produces its own line of matcha and hojicha powders directly from tea plantations in Kyoto, and whisks your matcha fresh in front of you on order, and the result is smooth, vibrant and umami-rich with subtle floral notes, not the dusty-sweet kind. Beyond the matcha latte and straight usucha, it's known for tea-inspired desserts like matcha cake and warabi mochi. Outlets (five in Singapore, per Hvala's own locations page): Odeon 333, at 333 North Bridge Road #01-11 near City Hall and Bugis, is the flagship (11am–8.30pm Sun–Fri, 12pm–9.30pm Sat); 111 Somerset #01-10 (12pm–9.30pm daily, complete with a robotic matcha arm); Takashimaya S.C. #B2-28, Ngee Ann City (10.30am–9.30pm Sun–Thu, from 11am Fri–Sat); Raffles Specialist Centre, 585 North Bridge Road #01-01 (9am–7pm daily); and Hvala Kissa at 100AM Mall, 100 Tras Street #01-05 (from 8am on weekdays, the earliest opener of the group). BEST FOR: a quietly premium, sit-down matcha experience and thoughtful tea desserts.

The local original. Founded in August 2015, Matchaya set out to be Singapore's first home-grown modern Japanese teahouse, sourcing authentic Uji matcha from Kyoto, the region long regarded as the gold standard for Japanese green tea. It's a dessert-forward café famous for its rich Uji matcha soft serve, sold in store as a $14.90 take-home tub, plus matcha and houjicha lattes, warabi mochi, a Dirty Matcha of its own and playful seasonal drinks. It also sells its own matcha powders and teaware if you want to whisk at home. Outlets (two, per its own Visit page): Tiong Bahru, 82 Tiong Poh Road (9am to 10pm Mon to Fri, from 8am at weekends) and Suntec City #02-737 (10am to 9.30pm Mon to Thu, to 10pm Fri to Sun). With 108 Matcha Saro gone from Suntec, it is now the mall's only matcha specialist. BEST FOR: matcha soft serve and takeaway lattes, plus grabbing quality matcha powder to bring home.

Serious Kyoto pedigree, and the widest reach of any matcha specialist here. Tsujiri traces its roots to Uji, Kyoto in 1860, making it one of the oldest matcha names you can drink in Singapore. Its own locations page lists eight Singapore outlets, of which three are full 'Premium' tea houses: One Holland Village (7 Holland Village Way, #02-25/26), Tanjong Pagar (94 Tanjong Pagar Road) and Great World (1 Kim Seng Promenade, #01-117/118). The Premium outlets are proper sit-down tea houses serving premium matcha parfaits, matcha soft serve, lattes and even savoury meals, using selected Uji matcha prized for its fine grind and deep green colour; the five standard outlets (Tanjong Pagar at 124 Tanjong Pagar Road, The Central, Sengkang Grand Mall, Clementi Peaks and Pasir Ris Mall) are smaller counters built around soft serve and drinks. Holland Village runs 11am to 10pm (10.30pm Fri, Sat and eve of PH), and it is the only matcha specialist in Holland Village. Note that the Clementi outlet is at Clementi Peaks, 464B Clementi Avenue 1, not Clementi Mall. BEST FOR: an occasion-worthy matcha parfait at a Premium outlet, or the most convenient heritage-Uji soft serve near you.

The most obsessive matcha on this list, and the newest. Matsu Matcha is a small kiosk at Guoco Tower (7 Wallich Street, #B1-08, two minutes from Tanjong Pagar MRT) that does something no other café here does: it mills its own matcha in-store on a Kyoto-made stone mill, then whisks every single cup by hand. Stone-milling generates a little heat, which is what gives freshly ground tencha its roasted 'hika' fragrance, and you can smell it at the counter. The menu is priced by leaf rather than by size: Uji matcha latte $7.90 (hot or iced), the stone-milled Seiha matcha latte with tencha $9.90, a warm stone-milled Ryokuun latte $8.90, the Double Matcha (iced Uji latte with tencha gelato) $12.50, and, for anyone who wants to taste what matcha actually is, a competition-grade Honzu Asahi served as straight usucha at $19. Non-matcha drinkers get a premium dark-roast houjicha latte ($6.90) or genmaicha latte ($6.50). Hours: 8am–8pm weekdays, 9am–8pm weekends. BEST FOR: CBD workers who want the freshest possible grind, and anyone curious enough to try a single-cultivar ceremonial matcha straight.

A specialty-coffee café from Kyoto with a cult matcha following. Kurasu Singapore, at 261 Waterloo Street #01-24 (open daily 8.30am–6.30pm), is a calm, minimalist space best known among coffee people for its beautifully balanced matcha latte ($7.50, using Kyoto matcha) alongside pour-over and espresso. The insider order is its off-menu 'Dirty Matcha', a matcha latte with a shot of espresso pulled through it, so you get grassy sweetness plus a coffee kick in one cup. It's also a great spot to buy Kyoto coffee gear and beans. BEST FOR: coffee lovers who also want excellent matcha, and anyone chasing that Dirty Matcha.

A full Japanese café experience built around green tea. Nana's Green Tea is a Japan-born chain serving matcha and houjicha lattes, towering matcha parfaits, warabi mochi and shiratama sweets, alongside proper savoury meals like matcha soba, rice bowls and hotpots, so it works for both a dessert run and a full sit-down meal. In Singapore its own locations page now lists three outlets: Plaza Singapura (60B Orchard Road, #03-80/82), DUO Galleria (7 Fraser Street, #01-38/39, 11am–9.30pm daily) and Guoco Tower (7 Wallich Street, #01-07), which puts a second serious matcha option in the same building as Matsu Matcha. BEST FOR: families and groups who want matcha desserts and a real meal in one place.

The wallet-friendly matcha fix, and the one entry on this list that has moved. 108 Matcha Saro is a matcha specialty brand from Asahikawa, Hokkaido, and it opened in Singapore at Suntec City. That kiosk is gone: as of 26 August 2026 the brand's own global store list shows three Singapore shops and none of them is at Suntec, and Suntec City's own dining directory no longer carries the brand either. If you see #B1-K5, Tower 5 quoted anywhere, it is out of date. The current three are ION Orchard #B4-70, 2 Orchard Turn (11am to 10pm daily, including public holidays and their eves); Bugis Junction, 200 Victoria Street (10am to 10pm daily); and Tampines One, 10 Tampines Central 1 #02-K1 (11am to 9.30pm daily). Everything is made with its own Uji matcha powder: soft serve, warabi mochi and obanyaki, and it is still the cheapest way onto this list, with soft serve long sold from around $4.90. The brand does not publish a Singapore price list online, so treat that figure as indicative and check at the counter. These are grab-and-go kiosks rather than sit-down cafés. BEST FOR: budget matcha soft serve and mochi without the specialty-café price tag. (Photo coming soon; @108matchasarosg has the latest.)

The newest wave of Singapore matcha, and the one people are queuing for. Kyō Teahouse at 18 Cross Street #01-15 (open 9am–9pm daily) is the tea-focused sister brand of KYŌ KOHEE, the CBD specialty-coffee group with five outlets: 112 Robinson Road, Asia Square Tower 1, Labrador Tower, 18 Cross Street and Moomoo Café by KYŌ at 496 North Bridge Road in Bugis. Where Kohee leads with coffee, the Teahouse is built entirely around leaf: its matcha is a JAS organic-certified Okumidori cultivar from Kyoto, a shade-grown varietal prized for a rounder, less astringent umami than the usual blends, and it's whisked into both straight lattes and the flavoured drinks that made it go viral: the banana pudding matcha and the strawberry compote matcha. You can swap in oat, soy or coconut milk on any of them, and there's hojicha, genmaicha and sencha for the non-matcha crowd. It's built for takeaway with just two benches outside, so treat it as a walk-up rather than a sit-down. BEST FOR: Chinatown and Raffles Place workers who want single-cultivar organic matcha to go, and anyone curious about the flavoured-matcha trend done with good tea.

The one to know if you want matcha and a place to actually sit with it. ECHO (listed by the building as Echo House) occupies #01-08 at KADA, 5 Kadayanallur Street, the restored 1920s building right beside Maxwell Food Centre, and splits its attention evenly between specialty coffee and ceremonial-grade matcha. The matcha leans earthy and gentle rather than sugary, which is the whole point: the iced matcha latte comes out creamy without the syrupy finish most café matcha has, and the strawberry matcha is the crowd-pleaser. It doubles as one of the area's better work-and-study spots, with indoor and outdoor seating and a genuinely quiet room tone, a rarity this close to Maxwell at lunchtime. It also roasts and sells small-batch beans. KADA's own tenant directory now lists it at 8am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 5.30pm at weekends, so it closes earlier than most of this list. BEST FOR: a sit-down matcha with a laptop, and anyone who finds most café matcha too sweet. (ECHO has no website of its own; the hours above are from kada.sg, and @echohouse.sg on Instagram carries the current menu.)