Coffee Guides

Looking for inspiration for some of the best specialty coffee shops around the world? I've curated a series of coffee city guides and maps, currently covering 36 of the countries I've visited across five continents. Check out the map below or read on for the full list.

For a more comprehensive overview of my own specialty coffee journey from 2010–2019, head over to this article. If you want even more coffee, you can find all of my coffee-related posts here; for more travel, my travel posts are indexed here.

If you're interested in coffee city guides more generally, you may enjoy the article I contributed to in the April–June 2023 edition of Coffee T&I magazine.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

• London: GUIDES: CURRENT, OLD, OLDER, OLDEST; MAP; REVIEWS
• Borough & Bankside: 2025 GUIDE & MAP
• King's Cross: 2019 GUIDE & MAP; 2016 GUIDE
• South-East London: GUIDE; MAP
• Bath: GUIDE
• Birmingham: GUIDE; REVIEWS
• Brighton: GUIDE
• Bristol: GUIDE; MAP
• Cambridge: REVIEWS
• Canterbury and Whitstable: GUIDE; MAP
• Edinburgh: GUIDE; MAP
• Glasgow: GUIDE; MAP
• Leicester: REVIEWS
• Leigh-on-Sea: REVIEWS
• Manchester: GUIDE
• Margate: GUIDE (2023); GUIDE (2018)
• Oxford: GUIDE; MAP
• West Midlands (Birmingham, Lichfield, Wolverhampton): REVIEWS

🇺🇸 United States

• New York City: GUIDE; MAP; REVIEWS
• Crown Heights & Bushwick: REVIEWS 
• Bushwick & Williamsburg, Brooklyn: GUIDE
• Financial District: GUIDE; MAP
• Greenpoint, Brooklyn: GUIDE
• Midtown Manhattan: GUIDE; MAP
• Austin: GUIDE; MAP
• Boston and Cambridge: GUIDE; MAP
• Chicago: GUIDE; MAP
• New England REVIEWS
• Portland, Maine: REVIEWS
• Portland, Oregon: GUIDE; MAP
• San Francisco: REVIEWS
• San Jose: REVIEWS
• Seattle: GUIDE; MAP
• Washington, DC: GUIDE PART 1, 2 & 3; MAP

🇦🇺 Australia

• Melbourne: GUIDE; MAP
• Sydney: GUIDE; MAP

🇧🇬 Bulgaria

• Sofia: GUIDE; MAP

🇨🇦 Canada

• Saskatoon: REVIEWS
• Vancouver: GUIDE

🇨🇿 Czechia

• Prague: GUIDE; MAP

🇩🇰 Denmark

• Copenhagen: GUIDE

🇪🇪 Estonia

• Tallinn: GUIDE; MAP

🇫🇮 Finland

• Helsinki: GUIDE PART 1 & 2

🇫🇷 France

• Paris: GUIDE PART 1, 2 & 3; MAP
• Toulouse: GUIDE

🇩🇪 Germany

• Berlin: GUIDE (Kreuzberg & Neukölln; mini-MAP), GUIDE (Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg); MAP
• Cologne: REVIEWS

🇬🇷 Greece

• Athens: GUIDE; MAP

🇭🇺 Hungary

• Budapest: GUIDE; MAP

🇮🇸 Iceland

• Reykjavik: GUIDE

🇮🇩 Indonesia

• Bali: MAP
• Canggu and Seminyak: GUIDE
• Ubud: GUIDE 
• Munduk: Caffeinated relaxation in Munduk

🇮🇪 Ireland

• Dublin: GUIDE (OLD)

🇮🇹 Italy

• Naples: REVIEWS
• Padua: REVIEWS

🇯🇵 Japan

• Tokyo, Kyoto and Miyajima: GUIDE

🇲🇾 Malaysia

• Kuala Lumpur: GUIDE; MAP
• George Town, Penang: GUIDE; MAP

🇱🇻 Latvia

• Riga: GUIDE; MAP

🇲🇹 Malta

• Valletta: REVIEWS

🇲🇽 Mexico

• Mexico City: GUIDE; MAP

🇳🇱 Netherlands

• Amsterdam: GUIDE; MAP

🇳🇿 New Zealand

• Auckland: REVIEWS
• Wellington: GUIDE; MAP

🇳🇴 Norway

• Oslo: GUIDE; MAP

🇵🇪 Peru

• Lima: GUIDE; MAP
• Arequipa: REVIEWS
• Cusco: REVIEWS

🇵🇱 Poland

• Kraków: GUIDE; MAP

🇵🇹 Portugal

• Lisbon: GUIDE
• Madeira: GUIDE
• Porto: GUIDE; MAP

🇸🇬 Singapore

• Singapore: GUIDE; MAP

🇸🇮 Slovenia

• Ljubljana: GUIDE; MAP

🇪🇸 Spain

• Barcelona: REVIEWS
• Palma de Mallorca: GUIDE; MAP
• Seville: MINI-GUIDE

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

• GUIDE; MAP

🇸🇪 Sweden

• Stockholm: GUIDE; MAP

🇨🇭 Switzerland

• Lausanne: MINI-GUIDE

🇹🇭 Thailand

• Bangkok: GUIDE; MAP
• Chiang Mai: GUIDE; MAP

🇻🇳 Vietnam

• Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and Hoi An: GUIDE; MAP
• Hanoi: GUIDE; MAP

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