A brunch terrace on Blue Street from The Folks, the Lisbon brand whose coffee program has landed it on the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops list two years running.

The hand-brew filter here gets singled out as beautifully balanced, and the espresso runs on flavour-forward single origins, a coffee programme with more craft behind it than the brunch queue outside would suggest.

One of six Lisbon outposts of The Folks, ranked among the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops for a second year running, pouring single origins from Colombia, Ethiopia, Costa Rica and Brazil with tasting notes on every cup.

Order the Hello Kristof Roasters single origin as a V60, Chemex, or Aeropress, or keep it to an espresso reviewers call excellent, right in Alfama.

Climb one of Alfama's steepest alleyways to find this one, a coffee shop built for people who care about what's in the cup, not just the view.

A spacious, calm room in Alfama for settling in with a laptop, best ordered as a latte rather than a flat white. Coffee here does the job without becoming the reason to visit.

A terrace table facing the Pantheon, steps from the Alfama flea market, worth the stop for the view and for espresso-based drinks that go beyond a plain espresso.

A bakery-cafe pouring beans from Portela, the Lisbon roaster that's sourced and roasted its own coffee since 1977. Origins are named down to the producer cooperative, with tasting notes printed on the bag.

In Alfama, the flat white here gets called one of the best a reviewer has had in the city, and the person pulling it once pulled shots for Illy in Italy.