Café restaurants
90 Café restaurants featured on published best-of lists.
- 3 Bottled Fish — Glenview, Oakland
- Agi's Counter — Crown Heights, Brooklyn
- Alba — Corktown, Detroit
- Alem’s Coffee — Rockridge, Oakland
- Alif Brew — University City, Philadelphia
- Baby's Kusina + Market — Brewerytown, Philadelphia
- Bachour — Downtown Coral Gables, Coral Gables
- Baileys' Chocolate Bar — Lafayette Square, St. Louis
- Bar Centro — The Strip, Las Vegas
- Beet Jar — Detroit-Shoreway, Cleveland
- Better Half Coffee & Cocktails — Clarksville, Austin
- Borage — Speedway, Indianapolis
- Bouldin Creek Café — Bouldin Creek, Austin
- Brassica Kitchen + Cafe — Jamaica Plain, Boston
- Bread & Butterfly — Inman Park, Atlanta
- Breadbelly — Inner Richmond, San Francisco
- Brother Juniper's — University District, Memphis
- Cafe Bar Moriarty — Black Rock, Buffalo
- Cafe Breizh — Southwest, Las Vegas
- Cafe Malou — Uptown, New Orleans
- Càphê Roasters — Kensington, Philadelphia
- Clementine's Naughty & Nice Creamery — Lafayette Square, St. Louis
- Cochinita & co. — East End, Houston
- Community Matters Cafe — Third Ward, Charlotte
- Cuban Coffee Queen — Old Town, Key West
- Daily Chew — Morningside, Atlanta
- Destroyer — Hayden Tract, Culver City
- Dolina Bakery & Cafe — Guadalupe District, Santa Fe
- Dream Creamery — Northeast, Minneapolis
- French Market — Prairie Village
- Good Cakes and Bakes — Bagley, Detroit
- Good Voyage — South Park, Seattle
- Hansen's Sno-Bliz — Uptown, New Orleans
- Hemma Hemma — Waldo, Kansas City, MO
- Hen Mother Cookhouse — Johns Creek
- Izola Bakery — East Village, San Diego
- JP Makes and Bakes — New Center, Detroit
- Kakawa Chocolate House — Downtown, Santa Fe
- Koffeteria — East Downtown, Houston
- La Jefa — Rittenhouse, Philadelphia
- Lagomarcino's — Downtown, Moline
- Le Pichet — Downtown, Seattle
- Le Rêve Patisserie & Café — Wauwatosa
- Lightwave Coffee & Kitchen — Monte Rio
- Littleton's Market Cafe — Tremont Center, Upper Arlington
- Liu's Cafe — Koreatown, Los Angeles
- Liv Juice — Hillcrest, San Diego
- Lucky Star — West Midtown, Atlanta
- Malegria Latin Cafe — Grand Avenue Arts District, Phoenix, AZ
- Marla Bakery & Cafe — Santa Rosa
- Mason's Creamery — Ohio City, Cleveland
- Maurice — Downtown, Portland, OR
- Mémoire Cà Phê — Alberta, Portland, OR
- Mercado Sin Nombre — East Austin, Austin
- Mitsos Greek Food & Coffee — Eastern Market, Detroit
- Morning Glass Coffee + Café — Mānoa, Honolulu
- Morning Glory — Little Italy, San Diego
- Mostra Coffee — Carmel Mountain Ranch, San Diego
- Mother — South Slope, Asheville
- Nezinscot Farm — Turner
- Odie B's — Sunnyside, Denver
- Our Green Affair — Solana Beach
- OWL Bakery — West Asheville, Asheville
- Pepino Eatery & Bakeshop — La Jolla
- Reverie Cafe and Bar — Powderhorn, Minneapolis
- Rise Bakery — West Greenville, Greenville, SC
- Roze Pony — Belle Meade, Nashville
- Rubato — Quincy
- Saint Bread — University District, Seattle
- Sammy's — Adair Park, Atlanta
- Sōhn — Dogpatch, San Francisco
- Songbird — The Grove, St. Louis
- Spinning J Bakery and Soda Fountain — Humboldt Park, Chicago
- Stella Jean's — University Heights, San Diego
- Sweedeedee — Humboldt, Portland, OR
- Tall Trees Cafe — Ferndale
- Tassili's Raw Reality Café — West End, Atlanta
- Ted Drewes Frozen Custard — St. Louis Hills, St. Louis
- The Bindery — LoHi, Denver
- The Commons — West Greenville, Greenville, SC
- The Congregation — Boston Edison, Detroit
- The Rado Market — Third Ward, Houston
- The Wayland Mill — Wallingford, Seattle
- Tinta y Café — Coral Gables
- Wayfarer Bread & Pastry — Bird Rock, San Diego
- Wild Crumb — Bozeman
- Wild Poppy — Sebastopol
- Winslow's Table — The Loop, University City
- Yellow — Union Market, Washington, DC
- Yo También Cantina — Inner Sunset, San Francisco
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