The roaster is in the room, live, while you order. Get the Yirgacheffe as a filter and take a bag of the same lot on the way out.

The only working roastery in Brighton, tucked into The Lanes with a proper filter menu behind it. Order the V60.

Pick Ship Street or Sydney Street. At both, a three-generation Master Roaster lineage and competition baristas are behind the bar, and the roast is happening in front of you.

The rotating named-lot programme (Kobeans) means the coffee on pour this week isn't what was on last month. Check what's on hand brew before you order.

The owner picks every roast personally, and the pour-over menu is the result. Staff who'll discuss flavour rather than just take the order.

An independent right on the promenade where someone took the time to dial in the espresso. Worth breaking stride for if you're walking the front.

The brigadeiros are the main event in The Lanes, and the espresso holds its own alongside them.

A Greek brunch spot on Brighton Square with real personality and coffee that holds up. The food leads; the flat white doesn't embarrass it.

Right on the seafront, and the espresso is better than the location suggests. Grab a cinnamon bun and face the sea.

A café-bar deep in the Lanes, serving bao and pulling flat whites better than the venue needs to. Come for the atmosphere; the coffee holds.

The flat white is the call. Tucked into The Lanes, consistent espresso in a room that knows what it is.

The Lanes general store that hides a tight coffee operation behind the pastry counter. Order the cortado.

A Ship Street brunch cafe where the flat white is good enough to order twice. The food brings people in; the coffee doesn't send them away.