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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 110 coffee shops
Best coffee shops in Sofia
The 10 most notable coffee shops in Sofia, 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
Coffee Fellows Vitosha
Vitosha Blvd 52
126 m from NDK II, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.459, percentile 100 of 110
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2
Barista Coffee and More
str. 26-30, ul. Bacho Kiro
451 m from Serdika II Metro Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.451, percentile 99.08 of 110
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3
Dabov Specialty Coffee Sofia 1
ul. Lyuben Karavelov 58
374 m from St. Patriarch Evtimiy, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.450, percentile 98.17 of 110
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4
Altruist Urban Coffee Shop and Bakery
Улица Екзарх Йосиф 49
340 m from Serdika II Metro Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.446, percentile 97.25 of 110
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5
Gentlemen's Roastery Lab
ul. Tsar Shishman 39
157 m from St. Patriarch Evtimiy, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.442, percentile 96.33 of 110
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6
Starbucks Bulgaria
100 Cherni Vrah Blvd
99 m from Vitosha Metro Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.438, percentile 95.41 of 110
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7
Drekka
ul. Marin Drinov 23
374 m from Teatralna, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.391, percentile 94.5 of 110
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8
Кафене Пекарна La Coquette
бул. „Цариградско шосе“ 111P, Synergy tower Business building
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.387, percentile 93.58 of 110
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9
Auréline Boutique & Café
ul. Bacho Kiro 2
422 m from Serdika II Metro Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.380, percentile 92.66 of 110
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10
Cafetería Santa María
Damyan Gruev St 28-30
590 m from Opalchenska Metro Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.361, percentile 91.74 of 110
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).