92 Degrees roasts in Liverpool and pours across four Leeds sites. Worth it at all of them.

Own roastery on Mill Hill, with baristas who know every lot by flavour and will steer you to the right one. Tell them what you're after.

Kapow roasts all its own coffee and rotates single-origin releases with tasting notes as standard, including experimentally processed naturals, so there's usually something new on the shelf worth trying.

200 Degrees roasts in Nottingham and pours the results on Bond Street. The barista school upstairs means the staff making your coffee were trained to do it properly.

A bar where coffee and cocktails share equal billing, neither there to prop up the other. The tiramisu Irish coffee is the obvious reason to stay for both.

Filter and espresso given equal standing, which is rarer than the Brewbar name implies. Central Leeds, coffee-first, no detours.

A Liverpool roastery's Leeds city centre outpost, and it doesn't coast on the brand name. The flat whites are properly made; the latte art earns its place on the cup.

The Italian-identity espresso bar that holds its dark-roast line in a city drifting toward pale. The food crowd comes for lunch; the coffee crowd comes back.

Canal-side at Granary Wharf, with Darkwoods Coffee from Holmfirth in the cup. The surrounding chains don't get close.