Cold brew around the world · 世界
Every city, every cup, on the record.
The signature Snob project: I visit the best coffee shops in a city, order black cold brew wherever possible, photograph every drink, record every price, and score every cup. City leaderboards roll up into the Coldbrew Snob World Rankings.
San Francisco · USA
Cafe X
A robot at SFO pours Onyx cold brew with a house-made banana syrup. It's a little sweet for me — and it's still a 9, because almost nobody else is doing this.
9/10
Kuta, Lombok · Indonesia
Curfew Coffee
A surf-town spot in Kuta, Lombok pouring a remarkably smooth cold brew from locally roasted Aceh Gayo beans — floral caramel up front, chocolate and orange behind it.
9/10
Singapore · Singapore
Sojourner Coffee
A polished CBD specialty bar pouring a Colombian cold brew that tastes like a fruit plate — pineapple, white peach, blood orange — held back half a step by a bitter edge.
8/10
Tokyo · Japan
Rokumei Coffee
The second perfect score on this site — a Nara roaster's cold brew in Shibuya that drinks like nothing else in the category. Fruity in a way that shouldn't be legal.
10/10
Kanazawa · Japan
Nonstop Coffee Stand & Roastery
A backstreet Kanazawa roastery pouring an exceptionally smooth cold brew from beans roasted in-house. The only thing between it and a cleaner finish: the paper cup.
9/10
Seattle · USA
Anchorhead Coffee
A roastery that literally started as a cold brew bottling operation — and it shows. Still, nitro, chocolate-milk, even Citra-hopped: this is Seattle's cold brew deep end.
9/10
San Diego · USA
Bird Rock Coffee Roasters
San Diego's OG specialty roaster pours a cold brew as clean as the beach air — single-origin clarity a few blocks from the ocean.
9/10
Takayama · Japan
Falò Coffee Brewers
The redemption arc of the Takayama trip — a Scandinavian-minimal roastery in the old town pouring the smoothest cold brew I've scored yet. Honey, chocolate, zero harshness.
10/10
Portland · USA
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
The shop that put nitro cold brew on the map, poured at the source. History in a glass — and still a very good glass.
8/10
Takayama · Japan
SANU Coffee Stand
The Takayama stop that was supposed to be cold brew — it isn't. But the iced pour over is smooth, clean, and worth the detour anyway.
8.5/10 · Iced pour over · no cold brew
Reykjavík · Iceland
Reykjavík Roasters
Iceland's benchmark roastery does a summer-season cold brew that tastes like the room feels — warm, precise, and completely unhurried.
9/10
Tokyo · Japan
Kissa Shizuku
A ten-seat kissaten in Yanaka where the cold brew drips for sixteen hours behind the counter — and tastes like it.
9/10
Portland · United States
Lowtide Coffee
A converted garage on Division where the nitro pours like a stout and the roaster is twelve feet from the tap.
8/10
Mexico City · Mexico
Patio Frío
A courtyard café in Roma Norte serving 24-hour cold brew from family-farm Oaxacan beans in hand-thrown clay cups.
9/10
Jackson · USA
Cowboy Coffee Co.
Jackson Hole's hometown roaster pours a nitro cold brew that's better company than it is coffee — solid, a little bitter, and exactly what you want before the Tetons.
7.5/10
Nashville · USA
Dose Café & Dram Bar
A relaxed Riverside Village neighborhood spot pouring cold brew on Counter Culture beans — an easy, dependable East Nashville glass.
8/10