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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 276 coffee shops
Best coffee shops in Dubai
The 10 most notable coffee shops in Dubai, 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
Costa Coffee - Arabian Ranches
Arabian Ranches Community Centre - Shop RVCC - B12 - 6
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 100 of 276
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2
Caribou Coffee - IBIS
Ibis Hotel, Ground - Level-001 Al Rigga Rd
347 m from Al Rigga, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.411, percentile 99.64 of 276
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3
MRJADE Coffee - The Future of Coffee
Burj Crown - R01 Emaar Blvd
797 m from Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall (Dubai Metro), metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.405, percentile 99.27 of 276
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4
RAW Coffee Company
Warehouse Next to RTA Carpark WH10, Cnr 7A and 4A Street
546 m from Al Safa, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.395, percentile 98.91 of 276
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5
Baristas' Corner
Canal Central Hotel - Marasi Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.382, percentile 98.55 of 276
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6
PappaRoti باباروتي - City Centre Mirdif
Mirdif City Center
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.382, percentile 98.18 of 276
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Caribou Coffee - Arabian Ranches 2
Arabian Ranches Souk, Al Qudra Road
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.381, percentile 97.82 of 276
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8
Rx Coffee Apothecary and Kitchen
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.375, percentile 97.45 of 276
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9
Caffé Nero
Dubai Mall - 2nd floor - near Zabeel Mall Gate
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.367, percentile 97.09 of 276
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10
Caribou Coffee - Deira City Center
Al Ittihad Road, Diera City Center, Mezzanine Level
194 m from Deira City Centre, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.366, percentile 96.73 of 276
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).