The cafe occupies a prime spot in Alserkal Avenue.
Subko Coffee Roasters & Bakehouse has officially opened its first UAE outpost at Dubai’s Alserkal Avenue, and it is not just another caffeine counter. The new Subko Dubai is designed as an immersive experience centre where microlot coffee, fresh sourdough loaves, buttery croissants, and fine cacao from the Indian Subcontinent sit alongside storytelling, design, and craft in full view.
Subko Dubai unfolds across two levels. On the ground floor, ‘The Craftery’ sets the tone with a concept store-style journey through Subko’s world of speciality coffee beans, bean-to-bar chocolate, and in-house designed merchandise. It also places production front and centre, with a transparent view ‘behind the hood’ that turns roasting, chocolate-making, and dough lamination into part of the theatre. The philosophy is simple and ambitious: bean-to-cup, pod-to-bar, grain-to-loaf, farm-to-plate.
Guests begin at ‘Taiyaar’, Subko’s ready-to-go section featuring grab-and-go canned drinks and instant, pre-batched options. From there, the experience flows into Batch Your Own Brew (BYOB), an innovative tap system that lets guests “tap” into rotational, pre-batched pour-overs, served hot or iced. Elsewhere, the ‘Subko Singularity’ table introduces a custom 3-D printing station where bespoke design studio outputs come to life on site.
The ground floor continues through Subculture by Subko, with its ‘Dukaan’ spotlighting design-led objects, publications, and merchandise inspired by Asian diaspora craft. Adjacent rooms include the roastery, anchored by a bespoke Giesen coffee roaster customised to Subko’s profiles, plus cacao transformation, confectionery, dough lamination, and an open hot kitchen where making remains visible throughout the day. Rounding it out is ‘Taufah’, which will offer customised speciality gifting for all occasions.
Upstairs, the mezzanine level is home to ‘Quoz Quarters’, the brand’s speciality café. Built like a winding, discoverable maze of themed rooms, it nods to Subko’s Bombay roots while affectionately localising the experience for its new home in Al Quoz. Expect the ‘Mehfil’ gathering space with red-oxide bleacher seating overlooking the coffee counter, followed by Zubaan, The Wheat Room, The Coffee Corridor, The Cacao Room, a Raw Humanity Corridor, and The Last Supper, a gallery-style room designed for dialogue and reflection. There is even a custom-designed carrom board for a hit of old-school nostalgia alongside your brew.
Founded in Mumbai, Subko has grown from a craft coffee label into a multidisciplinary house built on transparency, provenance, and re-imagination, reframing the Indian Subcontinent as a world-class origin for coffee, cacao, and baking.
From roasting coffee to baking fresh breads and working with cacao, almost everything at Subko in Dubai is made from scratch on-site. Whether you drop in for an early morning filter or a mid-afternoon flat white, “Subko translates to “for everyone”, and that sense of inclusivity runs through the entire experience.
Whether you are searching for a new creative hub in Dubai, a serious coffee destination or a spot that captures a little of the subcontinent in the city, Subko is set to become a go-to. It brings a coffee bar, a bakery, and a chocolate lab together under one roof.
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