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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 206 cafes
Best cafes in Bengaluru
The 10 most notable cafes in Bengaluru, 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
Hebbal Social
Azure, Ground floor, Bellary Rd, next to Godrej Apartments, Hebbal Kempapura
173 m from Kodigehalli metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.428, percentile 100 of 206
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2
Bistro Claytopia
SBI Park, 11, 80 Feet Rd, near Wipro Park
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.415, percentile 99.51 of 206
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3
Cafe Vishala
VVMVP Campus The Art of Living International Centre, 21st Km, Kanakapura Main Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.406, percentile 99.02 of 206
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4
Chaayos Cafe - Indiranagar
789/B, 12th Main Road, Indiranagar
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.404, percentile 98.54 of 206
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5
JustBe Cafe
Malleshwaram
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.404, percentile 98.05 of 206
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6
Iris Café and Kitchen
735, 16th Cross, 29th Main Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.402, percentile 97.56 of 206
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Cafe Lazy Lad
307, 9th Main Rd
380 m from HRBR Layout metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.401, percentile 97.07 of 206
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8
Happy Belly Bakes
6/2, Primrose Road, Craig Park Layout, Sivanchetti Gardens
460 m from Trinity Metro Station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.383, percentile 96.59 of 206
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9
Now Boarding Café (Board Game Café) - Terminal 2
4th & 5th Floor, Anvi Pride, 9th Main Rd
752 m from HSR Layout metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.369, percentile 96.1 of 206
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10
Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters | HRBR Layout
No 444, Gr Flr, 5th Main Road, Bbmp East, 2nd Block, Sarvagnanagar, Hrbr Layout
284 m from Kalyan Nagar metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.369, percentile 95.61 of 206
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.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
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).