IFE – anybody know if that is a name, or initials of something else? – is a local daytime hangout aimed firmly at the foreign students living and working at Yuquan Campus of Zhejiang Uni.. The place is tiny, self service, cosily decorated and has pretty good coffee, both to drink and beans to buy. Despite being full most of the day, and nearly everybody in the place armed with a laptop, the internet remains surprisingly quick; maybe that had something to do with 6 of the 8 laptops in there when I was being Macs, not so many Windows machines and Internet Explorers playing havoc… (I’m biased, maybe)

The place is no smoking and there are signs up ‘SShhhhh!’, so providing there is a chair spare, you can get on with work.

IFE Cafe, 418 Xixi Road | 西溪路418号