Cafés & Coffee Shops

We file these guides by place rather than by category, because that is how people look for coffee in a city they do not live in. One city, one page, updated rather than replaced.

Each shop is there for a reason we can state in a sentence, not to fill a slot in a list. That reason sits on the card, so you can skip the ones that do not match the morning you have planned.

We publish how many public reviews a shop has and leave the star average out. A 4.6 from 60 reviews and a 4.6 from 900 describe very different places, and collapsing them into one number throws away the useful half.

The count tells you how settled a reputation is. A new shop with sixty enthusiastic reviews is well worth a visit, and it is not the same bet as a decade-old institution with nine hundred.

Coffee shops close quietly and city guides are slow to notice. Every guide states the date we last re-checked addresses, opening status and review counts, so you can judge for yourself how current it is.

Hours change more often than addresses do. Each shop links to its own site, and we would rather you check that link than trust our page on the morning you travel.

Photographs come from the shops themselves and are credited to them by name. If a shop would like its photograph removed, we take it down on request through our contact page.