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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 30 coffee shops
Best coffee shops in Manila
The 10 most notable coffee shops in Manila, 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
Black Scoop Café- Vertex One San Lazaro
Reina Regente St 3F
338 m from Blumentritt station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.469, percentile 100 of 30
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2
Coffee Project España
878 España Tower, 1204 España Blvd
312 m from Lerma station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.440, percentile 96.55 of 30
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3
Coffee Project
BLGD E, Evia Lifestyle Center
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.284, percentile 93.1 of 30
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4
Bo's Coffee
GF, SM City San Lazaro, Felix Huertas Rd
300 m from Tayuman LRT Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.277, percentile 89.66 of 30
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5
Mary Grace Cafe
Upper Ground Floor Sm City San Lazaro Felix Huertas Cor Ah Lacson Sts. Sta. Cruz Manila
338 m from Tayuman LRT Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.066, percentile 86.21 of 30
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6
Cafe Mezzanine
650 Ongpin St
644 m from Carriedo LRT Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.008, percentile 82.76 of 30
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7
ABKD Kape
929 Nicanor Reyes St
138 m from Lerma station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.953, percentile 79.31 of 30
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8
Highlands Coffee Dragon 8 Mall
Dragon 8 Shopping Mall, Claro Mayo Recto Avenue Corner Dagupan Street
93 m from Tutuban station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.913, percentile 75.86 of 30
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9
Starbucks
P Noval St near corner Espana Avenue GF
350 m from Lerma station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.898, percentile 72.41 of 30
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10
Starbucks
860 Corner Of Mf Jhocson St. & Espana The One Torre de Santo Tomas Sampaloc
630 m from Lerma station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.879, percentile 68.97 of 30
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).