Coffee & cafés in Cape Town
Cape Town has 196 listed coffee shops and cafés, from quick espresso stops to slow weekend brunches. Most popular: Breakfast (8), Beans to Take Home (7), Specialty Coffee (7). The coffee scene spans 71 Coffee Shops, 47 Cafes & Coffee Shops, 6 Roasteries. Dietary options are covered too: Vegetarian cafés (33), Vegan cafés (28), Gluten-free cafés (3). 40 landmarks and neighbourhoods have their own nearby-coffee guides.
Cape Town, South Africa, has 196 coffee venues, including 37 specialty-coffee establishments. The city has a population of 4,772,846. About 85% of these venues are independent. The most common serves are breakfast, beans retail, and specialty coffee.
⭐ Top 10 coffee shops in Cape TownCape Town City Centre (21)Gardens (10)Woodstock (8)Sea Point (8)Green Point (6)De Waterkant (5)Victoria & Alfred Waterfront (5)Vredehoek (3)Tamboerskloof (3)
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Lekka Coffee Co.
81 Wale Street
★ 5.0 (78)
Cedar Coffee Roasters (Roastery + Store)
Unit 8, Cedar Coffee Roasters (Roastery + Store), Side Street Studios, inside Building, 48 Albert Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7915, South Africa
★ 5.0 (64)
AAFRICAA Coffee
Shop 9, AAFRICAA Coffee, Window, Alfred Mall, Dock Rd, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 5.0 (56)
Outdoor seating
Run Rabbit Run Coffee Roastery
Inside Fittees Clothing, 135 Albert Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa
★ 5.0 (47)
Oscaffè
Albert Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa
★ 5.0 (30)
Morning Mojo Coffee HQ
33 Sir Lowry Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 5.0 (13)
Roasts on-site
THE 777 COFFEE ROASTERY
City center, 66 Keerom St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
★ 4.9 (487)
Ollies specialty coffee and Pas Normal Studios - OSCS clubhouse
315 Main Rd, Sea Point, Cape Town, 8060, South Africa
★ 4.9 (178)
Coffee on Orange
Corner of 64 Orange and, 2 Rheede St, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.9 (103)
Outdoor seating
Kasteel Café
City center, 83 Castle St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.9 (82)
KAYA HQ
35 Loop St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.9 (65)
Platō Coffee - Kloof
121 Kloof St, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.9 (58)
Stellski Coffee Bar & Café Sea Point
19E Wisbeach Rd, Sea Point, Cape Town, 8005, South Africa
★ 4.9 (43)
Noah cafe
6 Tamboerskloof Rd, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.9 (14)
Ground Art Caffe
160 Strand Street
★ 4.8 (527)
Outdoor seating
Mulino
22 Bree Street, Cape Town
★ 4.8 (431)
Hey Stranger
★ 4.8 (149)
Outdoor seating
Flatmountain Coffee Roasters
103 Sir Lowry Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa
★ 4.8 (133)
Halō Coffee
In the foyer of, 117 Strand St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.8 (130)
THE FIX CAFE
0A Kloof Nek Rd, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.8 (119)
Outdoor seating
ad idem café
175 Long St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.8 (82)
Outdoor seating
Pang Specialty Coffee
93 Wale St, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.8 (76)
Outdoor seating
Crankshaft Cafe Classic Car Coffee Bar
120a Buitengracht St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
★ 4.8 (37)
Smak Coffee Co.
18-22, Smak Coffee Co., Inospace Island Works, Cumberland Rd, Paarden Eiland, Cape Town, 7405, South Africa
★ 4.8 (35)
Rosetta Roastery Cafe (Bree Street)
101 Bree St, CBD, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.7 (915)
Outdoor seating
Cafe Puka
★ 4.7 (363)
Outdoor seating
CAFE CHIFFON
SHOGF007, Old Cape Quarter, 72 Waterkant St, Green Point, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.7 (344)
Heaven Coffee Shop
38 Burg Street
★ 4.7 (322)
Outdoor seating
Shift Espresso Bar
Glengariff Road
★ 4.7 (279)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Deluxe Coffeeworks Kloof Street.
8 Kloof St, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.7 (242)
Outdoor seating
Pauline's Greenpoint
37A Somerset Rd, Green Point, Cape Town, 8051, South Africa
★ 4.7 (199)
Outdoor seating
Shift Espresso Bar
100 Kloof St, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.7 (158)
Laptop friendly
Michelle's Village Cafe
159 Waterkant St, De Waterkant, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.7 (98)
Outdoor seating
Espressolab De Waterkant
8 De Smidt St, Green Point, Cape Town, 8005, South Africa
★ 4.7
Laptop friendly
The Strangers Club
1 Braemar Rd, Green Point, Cape Town, 8005, South Africa
★ 4.6 (907)
Outdoor seating
Lazari
★ 4.6 (663)
Outdoor seating
The Ladder
136 Breë Street
★ 4.6 (663)
Outdoor seating
Kanéla Café
78 Regent Rd, Sea Point, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.6 (652)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Liquorice & Lime.
162 Kloof St, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.6 (568)
Deluxe Coffeeworks
171A Buitenkant St, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.6 (498)
Outdoor seating
Espressolab Woodstock
375 Albert Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa
★ 4.6 (472)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Molten Toffee
45a Kloof Street
★ 4.6 (289)
Outdoor seating
Shift Espresso Bar
Hans Strijdom Ave, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
★ 4.6 (65)
Laptop friendly
Coffee At The Museum
25 Queen Victoria St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
★ 4.6 (47)
Outdoor seating
Shift Espresso bar
130 Strand St, De Waterkant, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.6 (41)
Truth Coffee Roasting
★ 4.5 (5862)
Outdoor seating
Table Mountain Cafe
5821 Tafelberg Rd, Table Mountain (Nature Reserve), Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.5 (2381)
Outdoor seating
Honest Chocolate Cafe - Cape Town City Centre
64A Wale St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
★ 4.5 (2045)
Outdoor seating
The Blue Cafe
13 Brownlow Road, Cape Town
★ 4.5 (1309)
Outdoor seating
Origin Coffee Roasting
28 Hudson St, De Waterkant, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.5 (1096)
Swan Cafe
★ 4.5 (867)
Outdoor seating
Red Sofa Café & Deli
21 Derry St, Vredehoek, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.5 (774)
Outdoor seating
Pauline's
★ 4.5 (600)
Outdoor seating
Shift Espresso Bar
★ 4.5 (578)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Bootlegger Bree Street
185 Bree St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
★ 4.5 (576)
Outdoor seating
Stellski Coffee Bar & Café Woodstock
34 Salisbury St, Woodstock, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
★ 4.5 (473)
Outdoor seating
Bootlegger Kloof Street
112 Kloof St, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.5 (394)
Outdoor seating
Seattle Coffee Company
163 Buitengracht St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
★ 4.5 (341)
Outdoor seating
Seattle Coffee Company
★ 4.5 (327)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
THE ELECTRIC
48 Canterbury St, District Six, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa
★ 4.5 (288)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Platō Coffee - Sea Point
120 Main Rd, Sea Point, Cape Town, 8060, South Africa
★ 4.5 (200)
Outdoor seating
Stellski Coffee Bar & Café Bree Street
129 Bree St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.5 (199)
Outdoor seating
Rosetta Roastery - Espresso Pop Up (Silo District)
Silo.5, Silo District, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.5 (98)
Roasts on-site
Morning Mojo Coffee Seapoint
Beach Rd, Sea Point, Cape Town, 8005, South Africa
★ 4.5 (17)
Roasts on-site
Captain Kirwin's Coffee
363 Albert Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa
★ 4.5 (15)
Melts & Coffee (Treehouse Seventeen)
261 Breakwater Blvd, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, 7405, South Africa
★ 4.5
Deer Park Café
2 Deerpark Dr W, Vredehoek, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.4 (1848)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Naked
Wisbeach Road
★ 4.4 (589)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Shift Espresso Bar
45 Main Rd, Green Point, Cape Town, 8005, South Africa
★ 4.4 (574)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Kamili Coffee on Long
29 Shortmarket St &, Long St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
★ 4.4 (328)
Outdoor seating
Revved Up Cafe
112 Buitengracht St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.4 (318)
Platō Coffee - De Waterkant
and, Corner Chiappini, Waterkant St, De Waterkant, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.4 (182)
Outdoor seating
Langham House Coffees
59B Long St, Central, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.4 (77)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Imbizo African Coffee
and, Cnr Roeland Street, Hope St, Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa
★ 4.4
Roasts on-site
Café Frank
160 Breë Street, Cape Town
★ 4.3 (348)
Outdoor seating
mischu coffee
85A Regent Rd, Sea Point, Cape Town, 8060, South Africa
★ 4.3 (239)
Outdoor seating
KOFI Portside
Shop 7, KOFI Portside, Portside Tower, 4 Bree St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.3 (29)
Laptop friendly
Grind 4 Truth Coffee Shop
Prestwich Memorial, 1 Somerset Rd, Green Point, Cape Town, 8005, South Africa
★ 4.3
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
Native Coffee Roasters
37B Dock Rd, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa
★ 4.1 (196)
Outdoor seatingLaptop friendly
MiCaffè Cape Town
CBD, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
★ 3.8 (78)
Bean There
58 Wale Street
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Regent Road
Bootlegger Coffee Company
185 Breë Street, Cape Town
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Bootlegger Coffee Company
50 Harrington Street, Cape Town
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Vesperdene Road
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Mill Street, Cape Town
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Somerset Road, Cape Town
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Bootlegger Coffee Company
Main Road
Caffe Hausbrandt
32 Waterkant Street, Cape Town
Cookie Co.
16 Bree Street, Cape Town
De Goewerneur
ditto – ice cream & waffle house
119 Kloof Street
Flat Mountain Coffee Ritualist
Giulio's
Gran's Coffee Shoppe
4 Clyde Road
Gusto Cafeteria
Hmmm
Clare Street
Kamili Coffee Shop
Lebanese Bakery
17 Constitution Street, Cape Town
Lola's Cafe
228 Long Street
Moses Cafe
Neighborgood CBD
Breë Street
New York Bagels
44 Harrington Street, Cape Town
Outdoor seating
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NY Slice
51 Kloof Street, Cape Town
Origin
Roasts on-site
Rosa's Bakery
70 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town
Rosetta Roastery Cafe
101 Cnr Breë Street & Shortmarket Street, Cape Town
Outdoor seating
Salisburys
Outdoor seating
The Conscious Kitchen
34 Kloof Street, Cape Town
TRUTH.coffeecult
1 Somerset Road
Tuft Crowd
243 Breë Street, Cape Town
Villahe Café
Outdoor seating
Will's
22 Upper Orange Street
Outdoor seating
Woolworths Now Now Cafe CTC
Longmarket Street
Outdoor seating
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Cape Town coffee — FAQs
How many coffee shops are there in Cape Town?
There are 126 coffee shops, cafés and roasteries listed in Cape Town on WorldCafeMap, with addresses, opening hours, photos and ratings.
Where is the best coffee in Cape Town?
Top-rated coffee shops in Cape Town include Bean There, Bootlegger Coffee Company, Bootlegger Coffee Company. See our ranked list of the best coffee shops in Cape Town.
Are there coffee shops with outdoor seating in Cape Town?
54 venues in Cape Town have outdoor seating, terraces or gardens.