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Cafés in Kisementi & Kamwokya

Acacia Mall, Cooper Road and Kanjokya Street, with a Deaf-owned café on Bukoto Street.

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Kisementi is the knot of streets around Acacia Mall, at 14–18 Cooper Road, where more than 58 shops include Cafesserie, a cinema and several banks.1 It belongs to Kamwokya, which lies about 5 km by road northeast of the central business district and technically sits on Kololo Hill; Bukoto borders it to the northeast and Naguru to the east.2

The cafés here are spread over a few short streets: Caramel Café & Lounge on Cooper Road, Brew Plus at 13/15 Acacia Avenue, The Aleph Cafe and Raves Cafe on Kanjokya Street, and Silent Café at 52 Bukoto Street.

Local tip: Silent Café and Kaffe Kaffe close on Sundays; that day, Caramel on Cooper Road opens at 07:00 and Café Ceylon on Kiira Road at 06:30.

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10Cafés listed
4With opening hours
06:30Earliest opening
00:00Latest closing
  • Opens earliest: Café Ceylon, from 06:30 (Daily 06:30–00:00).
  • Most listed streets: Kanjokya Street (2).
  • Most common features: open late (20%), bakery café (20%), wheelchair access (20%).

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Coffee chains in Kisementi & Kamwokya

Cooper Road and Acacia Mall

Caramel Café & Lounge, at 8 Cooper Road, is one of six Caramel branches across Kampala and opens daily from 07:00 to 23:00.6 Its menu, last updated in June 2026, prices a single cappuccino at USh 13,000 and a flat white at USh 9,000, and it has a Habesha (Ethiopian) section with bayenet platters.6 Chilli's, inside the mall, has vegan dishes and takes cards.

Several East African chains are here too: Endiro Coffee at 23b Cooper Road, Cafesserie at 10 Cooper Road, Java House at 6 Acacia Avenue and Café Javas on Kira Road. Java House and Café Javas once fought over their similar names in Uganda's High Court, which ruled for Café Javas, a business of the Mandela Group.7

Silent Café on Bukoto Street

Silent Café, at 52 Bukoto Street, is a Deaf-owned coffee and dining space where Deaf and hearing staff work side by side.3 Its founder, Nasser Ssenyondo, grew up in a coffee-farming family and lost his hearing as a child. The café buys from more than 2,000 farming families, many of them Deaf, disabled, women or young people, and its work with Deaf farmers is in eastern Uganda.3

Its Dine & Sign sessions teach basic Ugandan Sign Language over a meal, guided by Deaf staff, and the menu runs from house coffee and African coffee to cappuccino and mocha.4 The café opens Monday to Saturday, 07:00–20:00.

Alliance Française de Kampala and the Goethe-Zentrum share the plot. A 10-week Ugandan Sign Language course began there on 26 September 2026, with evening classes on Thursday and Friday from 17:00 to 19:30 and Saturday classes from 10:00 to 13:00; the full course costs USh 370,000.5

Kanjokya Street and Kiira Road

The Aleph Cafe and Raves Cafe both sit on Kanjokya Street. The Aleph is cash-only and has step-free access. Kaffe Kaffe, at Plot 1 Bukoto Street, opens Monday to Saturday from 08:00 to 18:00.

Café Ceylon, at 81 Kiira Road, keeps the longest hours in the neighborhood, from 06:30 to 00:00 every day. Holy Crêpe makes crêpes and baked goods, and Heights Bar and Cafe is on Moyo Close.

Landmarks around Kisementi

Acacia Mall stands at the corner of Kira Road and Acacia Avenue.2 Kololo lies to the southeast and Nakasero to the south, and the British High Commission, the Uganda Wildlife Authority headquarters and the Uganda National Museum are in or near Kamwokya.2 The city's visitor portal lists the mall at 14–18 Cooper Road and notes that it opens daily, with longer hours at weekends.1

Sources

  1. Acacia Mall, Visit Kampala, Kampala Capital City Authority, accessed October 2026
  2. Kamwokya, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  3. About Silent Café, Silent Café, accessed October 2026
  4. Menu & Services, Silent Café, accessed October 2026
  5. Uganda Sign Language Course: Pioneer Cohort, Sept 2026, Silent Café, accessed October 2026
  6. Caramel Cafe & Lounge menu, Caramel Cafe & Lounge (updated June 2026), accessed October 2026
  7. Uganda coffee house takes turf war to Java, Business Daily Africa (Doreen Wainainah and Annie Njanja, April 29, 2018), accessed October 2026
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FAQ

Kisementi & Kamwokya cafés: questions

Where is Silent Café in Kampala, and what is Dine & Sign?

Silent Café is a Deaf-owned café at 52 Bukoto Street in Kamwokya, near Kisementi, open Monday to Saturday from 07:00 to 20:00. Its Dine & Sign sessions teach basic Ugandan Sign Language over a meal, guided by Deaf staff. A 10-week sign language course runs on the same plot, which it shares with Alliance Française de Kampala and the Goethe-Zentrum.

Which cafés in Kisementi, Kampala open early or close late?

Café Ceylon at 81 Kiira Road opens from 06:30 to 00:00 every day. Caramel Café & Lounge at 8 Cooper Road serves daily from 07:00 to 23:00, and Silent Café on Bukoto Street opens at 07:00 from Monday to Saturday. Kaffe Kaffe keeps shorter hours, 08:00 to 18:00, Monday to Saturday.

How far is Kisementi from Kampala city centre?

Kisementi is part of Kamwokya, about 5 km by road northeast of Kampala's central business district. Its landmark is Acacia Mall, at 14–18 Cooper Road on the corner of Kira Road and Acacia Avenue, with more than 58 shops. Kololo lies to the southeast and Nakasero to the south.

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