Triple Co is a working roastery, not a café that happens to sell beans. Come in for a bag of Jumpstart and leave with a subscription you'll be renewing two years later.

Lost Horizon roasts its own beans on-site in Stokes Croft. Order the pour-over.

Wogan roasts on-site and serves those beans across the brew bar. Order from the tasting notes; take a bag home from whatever's fresh off the roaster.

Twoday roast on-site and serve nothing older than two days. The single-origin filter list moves with the roastery output; ask whoever's behind the bar what came off the roaster this week.

The cafe arm of Perfecto Coffee's working Bristol roastery, where the espresso comes from the batch made on-site. No wholesale sourcing; the roastery and the counter are the same operation.

Farro is a bakery first, which is the right order of priorities, but the espresso bar runs Triple co Roast and the sourcing philosophy carries through from the bread to the cup.

One of Gloucester Road's only in-house roasters, which already puts it ahead of most of the strip. The Vietnamese Robusta on the menu is the tell: someone here makes sourcing decisions on purpose.

Yallah Coffee, sourced from Cornwall, and some of the most considered baking in Stokes Croft. The two together earn the trip.

The pastel de nata is the point, and the flat white won't disappoint. The kind of room that earns a slow Saturday morning in Clifton.

Greytone earns regulars on consistent espresso in a Stokes Croft that knows the difference. The lattes are properly velvety.

The pastries are why most people come, and they're the reason you'll stay longer than planned. The coffee is good enough not to feel like an afterthought.

The barista at this Clifton spot will talk you out of an Americano. Order filter, get a pastry, take your time.

The flavoured lattes are made with real ingredients: blueberry extract not syrup, actual banana in the banoffee. Come for the Stokes Croft brunch; the coffee holds its own.

Stokes Croft institution with a weekend queue and brunch food serious enough to earn it. Coffee is locally roasted, the minimum bar for a neighbourhood this serious.

The worker-owned cooperative at the top of Stokes Croft, where the politics are genuine and the vegan kitchen earns its reputation. Coffee holds up; come for the food and the room.