Ranked shortlist · 10 of 53 coffee shops

Best coffee shops in Recife

The 10 most notable coffee shops in Recife, 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.

  1. 1

    Café do Brejo

    R. Cap. Lima, 20

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.420, percentile 100 of 53

  2. 2

    Comedoria Recife

    Condomínio do Edifício Barão de Souza Leão - R. Barão de Souza Leão, 1000 - Lj 04

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.406, percentile 98.08 of 53

  3. 3

    Porto do Café

    Av. Conselheiro Rosa e Silva, 1460

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.396, percentile 96.15 of 53

  4. 4

    Coffee Shop Sao Braz

    L1 - SS43, R. Dr. João Santos Filho, 255

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.394, percentile 94.23 of 53

  5. 5

    81 Coffee & Co.

    R. das Creoulas, 55

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.372, percentile 92.31 of 53

  6. 6

    Kaffe Torrefação e Treinamento

    Avenida Conselheiro Aguiar, 2178

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.351, percentile 90.38 of 53

  7. 7

    Nordeste Café

    R. Inácio de Souza Morais, 224

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.337, percentile 88.46 of 53

  8. 8

    Deltaexpresso Aflitos

    Av. Conselheiro Rosa e Silva, 1086 - Lj 2 Térreo

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.332, percentile 86.54 of 53

  9. 9

    Versado Cafe

    Estr. do Encanamento, 480 - Loja 3

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.331, percentile 84.62 of 53

  10. 10

    Fervo Coffee Shop

    Rua Dr. Luiz Inácio Pessoa de Melo, 350

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.315, percentile 82.69 of 53

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.

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).