Own-brand beans from rotating Latin American and African single origins, brewed across the full spectrum from pour-over to cold brew. The team has been here long enough to run it properly.

A hole-in-the-wall Bruntsfield indie running five rotating Black Dog Coffee Co single-origins, each traced to farm level. The room doesn't prepare you for the sourcing detail.

The brew bar runs single origins from the house roastery, rotated regularly enough that there's always something worth asking about. Staff understand extraction, and the room is built around coffee rather than the kitchen.

A Bruntsfield food spot that takes the coffee seriously. The cortado gets ordered by name, and a regular has ranked it among the best in Morningside.

Bruntsfield bistro with freshly roasted beans behind the counter and consistently balanced extraction. The coffee outperforms what the room suggests.

A one-person police box on Bruntsfield Place that sells only coffee. The regulars have ranked it the best on the street, which is something for a kiosk.

The name is the brief. On Dalry Road rather than the Bruntsfield strip, with quieter footfall and coffee that earns the top billing.