A roastery where the owner, regarded as one of the best baristas in Spain, walks you through a personal tasting, coffee by coffee, flavour by flavour.

Single-origin lots that rotate through the year, pulled as espresso or slowed down through a Chemex, with reviewers reaching for actual tasting notes instead of just calling it good coffee.

This is Alicante's own specialty roaster, pulling espresso, filter, and cold brew from origins picked for clean, chocolate-citric sweetness, brunch included.

Roasts its own coffee and names single origins to farm level, with tasting notes given as standard.

A brunch spot that takes its coffee as seriously as its food, with a single-origin coffee programme and V60 pour-over sitting on the menu alongside the plates.

Order a pourover, not an espresso, and let the team walk you through exactly what's in the cup.

A roastery counter in Alicante where staff walk you through the coffee types and brew methods rather than just pulling a shot.

A takeaway counter where you watch your V60 ground and brewed to order, picking from several single-origin beans on the bar.

Point Bianco pours beans from three named specialty roasters, Amsterdam's Dak Coffee Roasters alongside Spain's Origen and Flamante, with a single-origin cold brew worth ordering on its own merits.

Order the V60 by name and watch the espresso get pulled with real care, the coffee-literate reason to detour to this address in Alicante.

Order the V60 and pick from a genuine spread of origins, poured by a barista who's visibly locked into the process. It's the kind of counter reviewers keep calling specialty without being asked.

An owner-run counter where the batch brew gets made fresh on request and the Americano comes out with a precision regulars keep mentioning by name.

Skip the espresso and order the filter: a single-origin pour from Colombia that one visitor swore tasted of passion fruit.

A takeaway counter by El Postiguet beach where the coffee is named single-origin Colombia, sourced and processed with a level of detail beachside menus don't usually bother with.

A V60 pour-over here has been called the best coffee in Alicante, worth the detour on that alone.

An independent brunch spot in Alicante where sourdough and acai bowls sit alongside named-origin coffee, including Ethiopian beans.

A brunch spot in Alicante that doesn't treat the coffee as an afterthought: Ethiopian and Colombian beans on the list, and a flat white regulars call the best order on the table.

Alicante's Japanese-inflected brunch draws you in on its own; the cappuccino keeps up rather than steals the show.

A breakfast spot by Alicante's market where the coffee earns its own praise, not just a mention alongside the food.

A central Alicante brunch spot with a 4.9 rating across 255 reviews, where diners call out the iced latte by name, not just the food.

A neighbourhood favourite by the old town, where regulars keep coming back and name the coffee as much as the breakfast for the reason why.

A central Alicante stop for breakfast, with an espresso solid enough to bring people back for it alone.

Go for the tostadas and the sense that everyone already knows each other here; the coffee is a footnote to the ritual, not the reason for it.

Order the cortado or flat white, the drinks locals point to as proof this stretch of Alicante takes specialty coffee seriously.