Ranked shortlist · 10 of 20 cafes
Best cafes in Agra
The 10 most notable cafes in Agra, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
The Salt Cafe, AGRA
3rd Floor, 1C, Fatehabad Rd, near Taj Mahal
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.480, percentile 100 of 20
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2
Downtown Cafe and Bar
Mahatma Gandhi Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.360, percentile 94.74 of 20
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3
Cafe Double Shot
Anand Bazar Sai Ka Takia, Mahatma Gandhi Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.304, percentile 89.47 of 20
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4
Cafe Chilam
In Hotel Gayatri Residency, Plot No: 57, behind Hotel Crystal Sarovar Premium
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.279, percentile 84.21 of 20
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5
Bling is now 3C's Cafe
3C's Cafe, 114/20, Deepshikha Building, Sanjay Place
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.050, percentile 78.95 of 20
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6
Cafe Turquoise Cottage
76, Fatehabad Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.042, percentile 73.68 of 20
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7
Mann Ki Chai
Shop No. 90 First Floor, Vallabhji Complex, Police Station, behind New Agra
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 2.009, percentile 68.42 of 20
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8
Desi Cafe Agra
5th Floor, Shree Siddhi Vinayak Trade Center Jeoni Mandi Chauraha
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.970, percentile 63.16 of 20
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9
Play Safari
Lower Ground Floor, Sarv SRK Mall, 3/26, Bypass Rd, next to Decathlon Store, near Bhagwan Talkies Crossing
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.955, percentile 57.89 of 20
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10
First Chai
Vimal Vihar, Paschimpuri road, near Pariney banquet
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.840, percentile 52.63 of 20
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).