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Café Amazon
Café Amazon is Thailand's home-grown coffee giant — the green-and-yellow, jungle-themed chain you'll see on practically every corner and in every PTT petrol station across Pattaya. Launched in 2002 by the Thai energy company PTT (now PTT OR) as a way to keep drivers caffeinated at its filling stations, it has since exploded into the country's biggest coffee brand by a distance, with well over 4,000 outlets in Thailand alone (and 5,000-plus worldwide), and it famously overtook Starbucks in Thai revenue back in 2018. In Pattaya you're never far from a branch: freestanding drive-thrus, petrol-station kiosks, and units inside malls, hospitals and office buildings, including this Central Pattaya location. The appeal is simple — reliable, cheap, cold caffeine. Most drinks land in the 50–90 baht range, and the sweet, milky iced coffees (the signature 'Amazon' iced espresso, plus iced cocoa, Thai tea, matcha and fruit coolers) are what keep the queues moving in the heat; a small range of pastries and snacks rounds it out. It's not third-wave specialty coffee, and the roast is Robusta-forward and often on the sweet side, but as a dependable, air-conditioned pit-stop for an affordable iced drink, Café Amazon is hard to beat.
