Ranked shortlist · 10 of 41 cafes
Best cafes in Davao
The 10 most notable cafes in Davao, 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
South Shore Divers Marina
Lizada Drive, Barangay Hizon Sr., Buhangin District
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.530, percentile 100 of 41
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2
Tree House Garden Cafe
Tree House Garden Cafe, Bayabas - Eden Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.489, percentile 97.5 of 41
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3
Cafe Julieta
Davao del Sur PH, Matina Pangi Road, Davao Del Sur, 188 Tulip Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.420, percentile 95 of 41
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4
Sunleaf Cafe
R. Castillo St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.401, percentile 92.5 of 41
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5
Black Scoop Cafe Matina
Juna Subdivision, Camachilli St, corner Acacia
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.334, percentile 90 of 41
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6
Cucina di juanna Cafe
National Hwy
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.322, percentile 87.5 of 41
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7
Cafe Chalet
364 3rd Cashew Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.317, percentile 85 of 41
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8
Tea Heaven Cafe Davao
110-181 Bolton St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.160, percentile 82.5 of 41
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9
The Beehive Cafe Davao
Rasay St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.109, percentile 80 of 41
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10
The Lobby Cafe by Arcadia
Col. Emilio Escandor St Quimpo Boulevard, Ecoland Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.068, percentile 77.5 of 41
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 calibration: 533 Michelin-starred restaurants in the catalogue were checked against their own group. It is the only designation that covers more than one place, so the ranking is corroborated for restaurants and uncorroborated elsewhere — the manifest says so per run. 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).