Best Cafes in Kuching 2026: 9 Cafes With Hours and Addresses

2026-10-31 · Last updated 2026-10-31 · 6 min read

Kuching's cafe map runs along two axes. The old centre — Wayang Street, Jalan Abell, Jalan Borneo, Jalan Masjid — holds the shophouse rooms that sit within walking distance of the waterfront, while the newer commercial blocks at Saradise, Soho East and Kenyalang Park hold the roasteries and the late rooms. Almost nothing on this page is more than 15 minutes from the other, which makes Kuching one of the easier Malaysian cities to cafe-hop without a car.

This guide lists the nine Kuching cafes in the JomYumcha directory that carry a full address, a published week, and at least one other stored fact.

Last updated: 31 October 2026.

How this list was built

The JomYumcha directory holds 43 approved cafes across East Malaysia on 31 October 2026 — Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan together — of which nine carry a Kuching address and enough stored detail to list. This guide takes those nine, ordered by recorded views, and appends a short set of East Malaysian rooms outside Kuching worth knowing if the trip extends.

Every opening time below is the value stored in the directory for that cafe, summarised by day. Every tag — Muslim friendly, live music, outdoor seating — is a row the directory holds. Where a record publishes nothing for a day, the guide says so rather than guessing, and where the record is an address and a week only, the entry says only that.

The directory stores no ratings and these records hold no dish menus or prices, so no taste ranking or signature dish appears here.

The old centre: Wayang Street, Abell and Borneo

MOSH Kuching

📍 7, Wayang Street, 93000 Kuching · 🕐 daily, 10am–10pm

MOSH is the most-viewed Kuching record in the directory and the only one on this page combining a heritage-street address with a twelve-hour day: 10am to 10pm, seven days. No amenity tags are stored, so the record is the address, the week and one photo. Wayang Street runs one block back from the Sarawak River waterfront, which makes it the natural first stop on foot.

Muja Coffee

📍 No 121, Section 49, Jalan Abell, 93100 Kuching · 🕐 Tue–Sun 10am–11pm, closed Monday

Muja runs 10am to 11pm from Tuesday to Sunday and holds three photos in the directory, two of them venue shots — the best photo coverage of any Kuching listing here. Jalan Abell is the street behind the old court buildings, so it is a short walk from the waterfront cluster.

ChaBroz Cafe

📍 1st Floor, Jalan Borneo, 93100 Kuching · 🕐 Tue–Sun 10am–10pm, closed Monday

ChaBroz is a first-floor room on Jalan Borneo, open 10am to 10pm Tuesday to Sunday. The record carries no amenity tags and one photo; the unit is upstairs, so look for a staircase rather than a street-level signboard.

Heritage Central Cafe

📍 Yayasan Sarawak, Jalan Masjid, 93000 Kuching · 🕐 Mon–Sat 9am–9pm, closed Sunday

The only listing here that closes on Sunday instead of Monday: Heritage Central opens 9am to 9pm from Monday to Saturday inside the Yayasan Sarawak building on Jalan Masjid. It is the earliest opening in the old centre and the only one with a six-day week ending on Sunday.

Fifty8 Cafe

📍 No. 10, Lot 58, Section 33, KTLD, Park Lane, Taman Budaya, 93300 Kuching · 🕐 Mon and Wed–Sun 10am–12am, closed Tuesday

Fifty8 has the longest day on this page — 10am to midnight — and is tagged Muslim friendly with outdoor seating. Tuesday is the day off. Taman Budaya puts it outside the old centre, on the Park Lane side of town.

Saradise and Soho East

Elementary Coffee Roasters

📍 Level 1, Lot 30, Block A2, Saradise, 93350 Kuching · 🕐 daily, 9am–11pm

Elementary is a level-one unit in the Saradise block, open 9am to 11pm every day, tagged air conditioned. It is the most even long week among the roasteries here and the latest regular close outside Fifty8.

Earthlings Coffee Workshop

📍 Soho East, Sublot 16, Ground Floor, Lot 188, Jalan Wan Alwi Lorong 5, 93350 Kuching · 🕐 daily, 9am–10pm

Earthlings sits at ground level in Soho East off Jalan Wan Alwi, running 9am to 10pm daily with a live-music tag attached. It is the one Kuching listing here that names a workshop in its own record, which is how the directory filed it.

Hananee Cafe

📍 Lot 8155 & 8156, Section 64, KTLD, Jalan Simpang Tiga, Kampung Kenyalang Park, 93200 Kuching · 🕐 daily, 10am–11pm

Hananee is the second most-viewed Kuching record and the latest-closing cafe in Kenyalang Park: 10am to 11pm, seven days, filed as both a cafe and a coffee shop. Two adjoining lots are listed, 8155 and 8156, so it is a double shopfront on Jalan Simpang Tiga.

New Sister Cafe

📍 Ground Floor, Lot 503, Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce, 93400 Kuching · 🕐 Tue–Sun 10am–7pm, closed Monday

New Sister keeps the shortest day in this guide — 10am to 7pm, Tuesday to Sunday — and is the only Kuching listing here tagged both family friendly and Muslim friendly. The address is a ground-floor lot on Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce, south of the river from the old centre.

Elsewhere in East Malaysia

The directory holds 34 more East Malaysian cafes outside Kuching. Four worth a look if the trip runs wider: Nook Cafe in Kota Kinabalu opens 7am to 7pm daily, one of the earliest starts in East Malaysia; La Levure Cafe in Miri is a bakery-cafe running 8am to 5pm; Chatto Coffee Labuan keeps 8.30am to 9pm and lists cold brew and espresso as its offerings; and The Coffee Code in Sibu runs 9am to 10pm daily.

Before you go

Kuching's cafes run late: seven of the nine listings above shut at 10pm or later, while New Sister closes at 7pm and Heritage Central at 9pm. Monday is the common day off — three of the nine take it — while Heritage Central takes Sunday instead.

What the directory does not hold for these cafes: ratings, dish prices, and menus. Every record here carries an address and a week, and the guide prints those rather than describing a room it has no data for. If a specific cafe is the reason for the trip, check the closed day above first — Kuching's shophouse rooms are small enough that a closed door is the whole visit.