Maadi's Oh! Coffee Celebrates One Year of Coffee, Music & Community

Maadi’s specialty coffee spot Oh! Coffee just hit the one-year mark and celebrated in the most Oh! Coffee way possible: with regulars, good coffee, something sweet on the table, and a set by Lydie the Djette.

Co-founded by experiential designer Sara T. Shannon — the mind behind Cult Studio and Cult The Shop — the space was never really built to be a grab-your-latte-and-go kind of place.

The menu stays close to what a neighbourhood coffee spot does best: specialty coffee, croissants, cakes, pies, cheesecake, chocolate brownies, chia cake, plus a Mediterranean-leaning breakfast spread for people who end up staying longer than expected.

Between filmmaking workshops, photography sessions, matcha-making workshops, dog necklace beading (yes), and the ever-famous Marwan gathering, there’s usually something happening beyond the coffee. Music, especially, has become part of the place’s identity, with listening sessions like Sound Obsessions and RadiOH! — the café’s own playlist extension — turning what’s playing into as much of the experience as what’s being poured.

So for year one, they didn’t reinvent the formula. They opened the doors, put on good music, and let everyone do what they were probably going to do anyway: hang out.