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 59 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 59 cities on this page, the median review count of a board's #10 spot is 422 reviews. The spread is wide: Montreal is the steepest board (6,142 reviews just to enter) while Cincinnati is the gentlest (55). 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, Montreal is currently the hardest of the 59 coffee shop boards we track, at 6,142 reviews. The single most-reviewed #1 is Moose in Liverpool, with 4,839 Google reviews.

• How often is this data refreshed?

  Quarterly, from Google Places. The boards behind this page were last refreshed on 2026-08-27. 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.