Coffee Guides

Looking for inspiration for some of the best coffee bars from around the world? I've produced a series of specialty coffee city guides and maps, currently covering 35 of the countries I've visited across five continents. Check out the map below or read on for the full list.

[September 2024: I finally caved and started spelling 'specialty coffee' thusly. I'm in the process of updating more than 12 years of blog posts but please bear with me for the inconsistencies in the meantime.]

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.

And 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
• 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
• 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 at Munduk Moding Coffee Plantation

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

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
• 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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