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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 363 coffee shops
Best coffee shops in Kuala Lumpur
The 10 most notable coffee shops in Kuala Lumpur, 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
Ra.Ft Cafe-Bistro
Lot G16 & G17, Ground Level, Arcoris Plaza, 10 Jalan Kiara
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 100 of 363
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2
28 Fireplace
28, Persiaran Ampang
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.394, percentile 99.72 of 363
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3
Munching Mob Cafe
3-12A, Jalan Jalil Perkasa 14 Bukit Jalil
608 m from Awan Besar LRT station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.393, percentile 99.45 of 363
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4
Antipodean Cafe
20, Jalan Telawi 2
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.391, percentile 99.17 of 363
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5
RGB Coffee at the Bean Hive
35, Jalan Damai
574 m from Ampang Park LRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.391, percentile 98.9 of 363
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6
Luckbros Kopi
9, Jalan Balai Polis
242 m from Pasar Seni station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.391, percentile 98.62 of 363
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7
Podgy Kurau
5, Lorong Kurau
445 m from Abdullah Hukum LRT station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.390, percentile 98.34 of 363
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8
Feeka Coffee Roasters
19, Jln Mesui
284 m from Raja Chulan Monorail station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.390, percentile 98.07 of 363
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9
Lim Kee Cafe
1st Floor, 66-68, Jalan Sultan
252 m from Sultan Street railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.388, percentile 97.79 of 363
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10
Scoby Coffee & Booch
No. 7G, Jalan 16/155c
258 m from Awan Besar LRT station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.387, percentile 97.51 of 363
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).