Best coffee shops by Google reviews, city by city.

Common questions

About the coffee shop leaderboards.

• How are the best coffee shops in each city ranked?

  Each city leaderboard pulls the top coffee shops from Google Places using a "top coffee shops in {city}" text search biased to the city centroid, keeps the top 10 results, then sorts by Google star rating (descending) with total review count as the tie-break. This hub aggregates the 50 boards we track for coffee shops. The full dataset is published as open data (CC-BY-4.0) at biglove.to/hyperlocal-summary.json.

• How many Google reviews does a coffee shop need to reach a city's top 10?

  Across the 50 cities on this page, the median review count of a board's #10 spot is 484 reviews. The spread is wide: Las Vegas is the steepest board (3,469 reviews just to enter) while Calgary is the gentlest (50). Our Google review benchmarks study breaks this down across all seven industries we track.

• Which city has the most competitive coffee shop leaderboard?

  Measured by the review count needed for the last top-10 seat, Las Vegas is currently the hardest of the 50 coffee shop boards we track, at 3,469 reviews. The single most-reviewed #1 is Patricia Coffee Brewers in Melbourne, with 4,337 Google reviews.

• How often is this data refreshed?

  Quarterly, from Google Places. The boards behind this page were last refreshed on 2026-07-04. Each city page shows its own refresh date. For real-time numbers, the public Google Maps listing of each business is always the canonical source — these leaderboards are snapshots, not live feeds.