The World's Top 100 Coffee Shops
Cafes with credentials: champion baristas, roasters the industry defers to, rooms the guides single out. The world's best coffee, by the record.
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A former automotive welding shop in East Williamsburg now houses this multi-roaster coffee boutique, where the menu leans into distilled coffee, blue algae, and clarified matcha alongside a hand-brew selection from roasters around the world. The back of the space runs a small craft brewery called Niteglow, so the afternoon espresso can pivot to a draft pour. It reads like a coffee shop that got very ambitious and kept going.
- Sprudgie Awards 2024 · Finalist · Notable Roaster
- Sprudgie Awards 2023 · Honoree · Best New Cafe
- Eater The Best Coffee Shops in New York City
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- Sprudgie Awards 2024 · Finalist · Best New Cafe
- San Francisco Chronicle The Best Coffee in the Bay Area
- Eater The Absolute Best San Francisco Coffee Shops
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- Sprudgie Awards 2025 · Finalist · Best New Cafe
- US Coffee Championships #2 · U.S. Brewers Cup · Christian Bak
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- Sprudgie Awards 2025 · Finalist · Notable Roaster
- US Coffee Championships #4 · U.S. Coffee Roasters Championship · Matthew Selivanow
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- Sprudgie Awards 2025 · Finalist · Notable Roaster
- US Coffee Championships #4 · U.S. Coffee Roasters Championship · Matthew Selivanow
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- The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops #2 · Top 100 Coffee Shops
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Bar
- US Coffee Championships #5 · U.S. Brewers Cup · Elika Liftee
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Rank 11. Arcane Estate Coffee
Panamanian Coffee
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- Sprudgie Awards 2023 · Winner · Best New Cafe
- Eater The 26 Best Restaurants in San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Rank 11. Maru Coffee
Korean Coffee Shop
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Rank 11. Maru Coffee
Korean Coffee Shop
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- The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops #30 · Top 100 Coffee Shops
- Time Out The 24 Best Coffee Shops in Miami
- Eater Where to Drink the Best Coffee in Miami
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Rank 49. Tinta y Café
Cuban Coffee
- The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops #2 · Top 100 Coffee Shops
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Breakfast · Best of Miami New Times
- Eater Where to Drink the Best Coffee in Miami
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- The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops #57 · Top 100 Coffee Shops
- Time Out The 24 Best Coffee Shops in Miami
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- The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops #44 · Top 100 Coffee Shops
- Arizona Daily Star Coffee and Tea: Honorable Mention · Where should I eat in Tucson
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Rank 56. Koffeteria
Cambodian Bakery
The beef pho kolache alone explains why this Cambodian-influenced bakery and coffee shop landed on the New York Times' list of best bakeries in the country. Chef Vanarin Kuch, a Top Chef alum and James Beard Outstanding Bakery semifinalist, builds a menu where Southeast Asian flavors drift easily into French, Mexican, and Brazilian territory. The Salty Cambodian latte, finished with condensed milk and sourdough butter, has regulars skipping the cortado for good.
- The Infatuation Our Favorite Bakeries In The Country Right Now
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bakery
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bakery
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Rank 56. Valentine
American, Regional Cuisine
A churro waffle with a cult following and a soft pretzel served with butter blended from guinea hen fat says about everything you need to know about Valentine's priorities. This all-day cafe and restaurant in the Melrose District does wood-fired Sonoran cooking with Arizona ingredients treated like the whole point, not a talking point. The chef is a James Beard semifinalist, and the elote pasta has its own fan club. The vintage furniture store in the back is not a joke.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Crystal Kass
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Crystal Kass
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 65. Camino a Comala
Mexican Coffee Shop
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Rank 65. Casaema
Mexican/Tex-Mex
The horchata cream doughnut sells out early, which tells you everything about the pace of a morning here. Casaema is a daytime cafe in Houston Heights rooted in Mexican foodways, with a pastry case full of conchas and guava-queso empanadas alongside a coffee menu running café de olla lattes and piloncillo chai. The chilaquiles are built on housemade chips with brisket. A James Beard nominee for Best New Restaurant, and a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Texas Monthly #6 · Texas’s Best New Restaurants
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Rank 65. here Kyoto
Coffee
Rice cooked in clay pots anchors the menu at this quiet Kyoto dining room, where a Michelin-starred chef trained in both ryotei and kappo kitchens before opening something more personal. The cooking is rooted in dashi and vegetables, with cold and warm side dishes that shift the mood gently course by course. It reads as restrained until you notice how precisely every detail has been placed. Reservations are not optional.
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- US Coffee Championships #1 · U.S. Latte Art Championship · Piyapat "Flook" Lapteerawut
- US Coffee Championships #7 · U.S. Brewers Cup · Peace Sakulclanuwat
- US Coffee Championships #7 · U.S. Coffee in Good Spirits Championship · John Chau Ly
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Rank 84. Daisies
Italian Midwestern
Pasta and vegetables carry most of the weight here, at this bright, sun-flooded Italian restaurant in Logan Square that holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. The house-made pappardelle and rigatoni keep regulars coming back, but the onion dip with house-made ruffles has become a thing people talk about. A bakery tucked in the back means the pastry situation at the end of a meal is genuinely hard to navigate. The bar program turns heads too, a James Beard semifinalist for hospitality.
- Punch Best New Bartenders · Becca Petersen
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The New York Times The Restaurant List
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Rank 84. Mercado Sin Nombre
Mexican Coffee
A flower-strung alley leads to an order window in East Austin, which is a whole vibe before the coffee even arrives. Mercado Sin Nombre is a Mexican coffee shop built around heirloom corn and specialty coffee, with pastries that take the idea seriously, including a biscuit that takes 100 hours to make. A Michelin Bib Gourmand and a James Beard Outstanding Bakery semifinalist, it keeps the name deliberately small so the farmers doing the work stay front and center.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Eater Best New Café
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bakery
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- The Infatuation Our Favorite Bakeries In The Country Right Now
- Eater Where to Drink the Best Coffee in Miami
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Rank 87. Caracas Bakery
Venezuelan Bakery
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Jesus Brazon and Manuel Brazon
- Miami New Times 2023 · Best Bakery · Best of Miami New Times
- Time Out The 24 Best Coffee Shops in Miami
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Rank 87. Yellow
Levantine
A wood-burning oven anchors this fast-casual Levantine cafe in Georgetown, where the line out the door reorganizes itself around whatever Michael Rafidi's team pulled from it most recently. Mornings run on pastries and shakshuka; afternoons shift to stuffed pitas and batata tots with urfa sauce. By night it flips to table service and a dinner menu. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Rammys Finalist · Fast Casual Restaurant of the Year
- The Rammys Finalist · Pastry Chef or Baker of the Year · Alicia Wang
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Rank 90. Ellē
American
The former Heller's Bakery space now runs all day as a cafe, from morning lattes and egg sandwiches on potato rolls through a pastrami Reuben at lunch and on to dinner plates that get genuinely ambitious: fried halloumi with farro, chicken Milanese with romesco, ravioli with mushrooms and hazelnuts. The kitchen leans into fermentation and seasonal quirks in a way that keeps things interesting without making you feel like you're being lectured. Michelin Bib Gourmand.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants
- Eater The Best Bakeries Around D.C.
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Rank 90. Maketto
Cambodian Taiwanese Coffee Shop
Sneakers mounted on the wall are, in fact, for sale, which tells you everything about the vibe before you've ordered. Erik Bruner-Yang's café and all-day dining room on H Street blends a retail shop with Cambodian and Taiwanese cooking, all meant for the table to share. The caramel fried chicken has been on the menu long enough to qualify as a classic, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand suggests the kitchen isn't coasting on that.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Eater The Best New Restaurants in America
- Eater The 15 Best Coffee Shops Around D.C.
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- US Coffee Championships #5 · U.S. Barista Championship · Circle Chan
- San Francisco Chronicle The Best Coffee in the Bay Area
- The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops In SF
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Rank 93. Yellow
Levantine Middle Eastern
- The Rammys Finalist · Pastry Chef or Baker of the Year · Alicia Wang
- The Rammys Finalist · Fast Casual Restaurant of the Year
- Eater The Best Bakeries Around D.C.
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Rank 94. Abraço
Coffee
The cured olive cookie has been living rent-free in regulars' heads for years, which tells you something about this East Village espresso bar. Abraço roasts its own, keeps laptops out, and occasionally pivots to cocktails for evening music events, which is either a flex or just very New York. The room fills fast on weekends, the bites are small and creative, and the whole operation runs with a neighborhood-institution energy that's genuinely hard to fake.
- Time Out #3 · The 21 very best coffee shops in NYC
- Eater The Best Coffee Shops in New York City
- The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops In NYC
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Rank 94. La Cabra
Danish Coffee
A U-shaped bar anchors this Danish coffee shop, where streamlined taps for cold drinks share space with a proper V60 setup and a counter lined with pastries worth stopping for. La Cabra built a following in Copenhagen before planting roots on the Lower East Side, and the East Village original still draws a crowd that treats croissants and a carefully pulled espresso as a reasonable reason to leave the house.
- The Infatuation The Best Bakeries in NYC
- Eater The Best Coffee Shops in New York City
- Eater The Best Croissants in NYC
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Rank 94. SEY
Nordic Coffee
- Time Out #4 · The 21 very best coffee shops in NYC
- Eater The Best Coffee Shops in New York City
- Sprudge The Sprudge Guide to Coffee in North Brooklyn
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- US Coffee Championships #1 · U.S. Coffee Roasters Championship · Diego Guartan
- Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago
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Rank 97. Helm Coffee
Coffee
The 2025 U.S. Brewers Cup champion works the bar here, which tells you something about the coffee before you've tasted it. Helm is a roastery cafe selling small-batch microlots in 100-gram bags, roasted on site and pulled toward clarity over comfort. Gesha varieties, floral aromas, lightly roasted. It's also, somehow, the official coffee sponsor of Gen Con, which means the tabletop gaming crowd found good taste before the coffee crowd found them.
- US Coffee Championships #1 · U.S. Brewers Cup · Justin Bull
- Sprudge The Sprudge Guide To Coffee In Indianapolis
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- Eater The 15 Best Coffee Shops Around D.C.
- Washingtonian Best Coffee Shops in DC
- Time Out The 20 Best Coffee Shops and Cafés in Washington, DC
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The arepa arrives wrapped like a little gift, seared masa around a fried egg, tomato, cotija, and avocado. This all-day Latin American spot on Florida Avenue runs from morning coffee through dinner without any of the fuss, and the price point reflects that. Upstairs, an intimate room with original details fills with regulars chasing the pork empanadas and masa gnocchi with braised beef.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 15 Best Coffee Shops Around D.C.
- Time Out The 20 Best Coffee Shops and Cafés in Washington, DC
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- Eater The 15 Best Coffee Shops Around D.C.
- Time Out The 20 Best Coffee Shops and Cafés in Washington, DC
- Washingtonian Best Coffee Shops in DC
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- Time Out The 20 Best Coffee Shops and Cafés in Washington, DC
- Eater The 15 Best Coffee Shops Around D.C.
- Washingtonian Best Coffee Shops in DC
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- Eater The 15 Best Coffee Shops Around D.C.
- Time Out The 20 Best Coffee Shops and Cafés in Washington, DC
- Washingtonian Best Coffee Shops in DC
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- Eater The 15 Best Coffee Shops Around D.C.
- Washingtonian Best Coffee Shops in DC
- Time Out The 20 Best Coffee Shops and Cafés in Washington, DC
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The café con leche here is made with a lighter roast, which in Miami is practically a political statement. Tinta y Café is a Cuban sandwich and coffee shop in Coral Gables where the second-generation team bakes its own baguettes, folds French eggs into the breakfast sandwiches, and stuffs the Madurito with roasted pork, chorizo, and sweet plantains. The New York Times put it on their Miami restaurant list, which the regulars probably shrug at between sips.
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Breakfast · Best of Miami New Times
- Time Out The 24 Best Coffee Shops in Miami
- Eater Where to Drink the Best Coffee in Miami