Best Cafes in Penang 2026: 14 Cafes With Hours and Addresses

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

Penang's cafe geography follows two coasts and one bridge. George Town holds most of it — the shophouse grid between Lebuh Pantai, Lebuh Bishop, Lorong Kinta and Jalan Hutton — with a cluster at Tanjung Bungah on the north shore and a few mainland rooms at Bukit Mertajam.

This guide lists the 14 Penang cafes in the JomYumcha directory that carry a full address and a published week, ordered by recorded demand.

Last updated: 31 October 2026.

How this list was built

The JomYumcha directory holds 57 approved cafes in Penang on 31 October 2026, 52 of them carrying at least three stored facts. This guide takes the 14 with the most recorded views and prints what those records hold: street address, the week's opening times, and the amenity tags attached to each listing.

Every time below is a stored value, summarised by day. Every tag — WiFi available, quiet and study friendly, halal certified, pet friendly — is a row the directory holds. Where a record publishes nothing for a day, the guide says so; where the week is uneven, the split is printed.

The directory stores no ratings and these records hold almost no dish-level data, so nothing here ranks taste or names a signature dish. One listing, Elsewhere, carries a written description that mentions galettes, crêpes and pasta; that is quoted as the listing's own note, not a review.

George Town: Lebuh Pantai and Lebuh Bishop

Red Door Cafe

📍 TKT 2, 184 & 186, Lebuh Pantai, 10300 George Town · 🕐 Mon–Tue and Thu 8.30am–6pm, Wed closed, Fri–Sun 8.30am–9pm

Red Door is the most-viewed Penang record in the directory and the only one here tagged WiFi available and family friendly together. Its week widens at the weekend: 8.30am to 6pm from Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 9pm Friday to Sunday, closed Wednesday. Two upper-floor lots are listed, so the room is on the first floor rather than the street.

Sad Panda Cafe

📍 77, Lebuh Bishop, 10200 George Town · 🕐 daily, 7.30am–6pm

Sad Panda has the earliest start in George Town — 7.30am — and closes at 6pm every day. It is tagged quiet and study friendly plus Muslim friendly, making it the clearest work-cafe signal in the city, and it holds three photos in the directory, two of them venue shots.

Sama Sama Cafe

📍 Hall 3, 35, Pengkalan Weld, 10300 George Town · 🕐 Mon and Wed–Sun 10am–6pm, closed Tuesday

Sama Sama sits in Hall 3 on Pengkalan Weld, the waterfront road, and runs 10am to 6pm with Tuesday off. Wheelchair accessible is the stored tag, and it carries three photos, two of them venue shots.

Hanakoya Flower Cafe Penang

📍 83, Lebuh Muntri, 10200 George Town · 🕐 daily, 10am–8pm

On Lebuh Muntri, Hanakoya opens 10am and closes at 8pm daily, tagged Muslim friendly. It is a shopfront lot rather than a mall unit, so plan to walk in from Lebuh Chulia.

Moonshine Cakes & Coffee

📍 10, Jalan Sri Bahari, 10450 George Town · 🕐 daily, 10am–6pm

Moonshine keeps a short day — 10am to 6pm, seven days — on Jalan Sri Bahari, and carries no amenity tags in the directory. The address and the week are the record.

George Town: Lorong Kinta, Hutton and Prangin

A Soar Coffee 翔啡

📍 102, Lorong Kinta, 10400 Penang · 🕐 Mon–Tue and Thu 9am–7pm, Wed closed, Fri–Sun 9am–10pm

A Soar is tagged WiFi available and Muslim friendly, and its week ends three hours later from Friday to Sunday (10pm) than it does from Monday to Thursday (7pm). Wednesday is closed. The address sits in the Lorong Kinta row behind the Komtar blocks.

The FOUNDERS Hutton

📍 17, Jalan Hutton, 10050 George Town · 🕐 daily, 9am–11pm

The FOUNDERS runs the longest uniform day among the George Town listings here: 9am to 11pm, seven days, tagged quiet and study friendly. If a late table and a quiet room are both required, this is the one on the page that states both.

Cafe Aura Rise and Grind

📍 32, Jalan Hutton, George Town, 10050 George Town · 🕐 daily, 4pm–12am

Aura is an evening room: it opens at 4pm and closes at midnight, every day, and is tagged non-halal and LGBTQ+ friendly. It holds three photos, two of them venue shots, and it is a few doors from The FOUNDERS on the same street — the one block here where an afternoon and a midnight stop sit together.

KINS

📍 47-B, Lorong Prangin, 10100 Georgetown · 🕐 Mon–Fri 5pm–10pm, Sat–Sun 12pm–10pm

KINS opens at 5pm on weekdays and at noon at the weekend, closing at 10pm both ways. The tags are non-halal and live music. It is the smallest record in this guide — one photo, no description — and the address is a first-floor lot on Lorong Prangin.

Lazy Ember

📍 6, Lorong Toh Aka, George Town, 10100 George Town · 🕐 Tue–Sat 6pm–10pm, closed Sunday and Monday

Typed as a restaurant rather than a cafe, Lazy Ember is the shortest week here: four hours a night, Tuesday to Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday. It is halal certified with a live-music tag, and the address is the narrow Lorong Toh Aka lane off Lebuh Chulia.

Rocca Bay

📍 46A, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, 10050 George Town · 🕐 daily, 9am–10pm

Rocca Bay is on the Northam Road stretch of Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, running 9am to 10pm daily with a non-halal tag. Its own description places it on the waterfront inside an art gallery, with a breezy outdoor setting — the only Penang record here that states a view as part of the entry.

Tanjung Bungah and the mainland

Elsewhere

📍 28, Lebuh Lembah Permai 4, 11200 Tanjung Bungah · 🕐 daily, 10am–10pm

Elsewhere is the north-shore listing: 10am to 10pm every day on Lebuh Lembah Permai 4, tagged family friendly and air conditioned. Its own description names galettes, crêpes and pasta, so read it as a meal stop that serves coffee rather than a coffee bar that serves food.

ANG ANG'S ROASTERY

📍 48, Lorong Seri Alma, Taman Selesa, 14000 Bukit Mertajam · 🕐 daily, 9am–11.30pm

Across the bridge in Bukit Mertajam, ANG ANG'S opens 9am and closes at 11.30pm — the latest closing time in this guide — and is tagged pet friendly and halal certified. The directory holds no cafe-type category for it, so the name and the hours are the description.

Nogi Coffee

📍 G-11, Lebuh Nangka 1, Taman Desa Damai, 14000 Bukit Mertajam · 🕐 daily, 8am–10pm

Nogi is the second mainland room, on Lebuh Nangka 1, open 8am to 10pm daily with quiet-and-study-friendly and parking-available tags. It is the earliest mainland start and, for anyone working from the Seberang Perai side, the one listing here that states both a quiet room and parking.

Before you go

Penang splits cleanly by hour. George Town's morning rooms are Sad Panda (7.30am) and A Soar (9am); its late rooms are The FOUNDERS and Rocca Bay (11pm and 10pm), Aura (midnight) and ANG ANG'S over on the mainland (11.30pm). Wednesday is the day off at Red Door and A Soar, while Lazy Ember closes Sunday and Monday and Sama Sama takes Tuesday.

What the directory does not hold for these cafes: ratings, dish prices, and menus. Two records are typed as restaurants rather than cafes, and both are labelled in place. If a specific room is the reason for the trip, check the closed day above and call the number on the listing before crossing the bridge.