This cafe sits a few doors down from its sister spot, Toast on Lenox. While it’s easy to assume it opened to accommodate the overflow from the perpetually busy brunch restaurant, Toast Noir is a solid coffee destination on its own. Smile-inducing drinks like mocha lattes that have a cute ice bear on top are a good enough reason to switch up your usual coffee routine.

Stereo is the sexy upgrade of what used to be Victory Coffee and Calamity in Inman Park, and it's the perfect place to start your day with a not-too-harsh espresso on an outside patio seat. Inside, modish leather couches and chairs are occupied by neighborhood locals looking to escape the mundane confines of their houses for a few hours. A permanent DJ table sits in the back of the space, unused during the sleepier, early morning hours.

Ash Coffee is the quintessential neighborhood coffee shop filled with stroller-pushing VaHi parents, young adults looking for a chat that doesn’t involve a screen, and those here solely for their thick Vietnamese egg coffee (that has a blowtorched foam top). A well-stocked display case reaffirms that breakfast is the most important meal of the day with pastries like giant cinnamon rolls and spicy bacon and egg breakfast sandwiches.

Admire the colorful geometrically painted ceiling quickly since there’s no seating inside this tiny, green, retro coffee counter. After you get your coffee (and color inspiration for your next Canva design), take a seat on a bench in their outdoor gravel area. But we mostly use this spot for quick grab-and-go whenever we’re in Reynoldstown. While we love their tasty lattes, what we like most about Con Leche is that they source products from other small, local businesses.

Though it sits in a busy West Midtown strip, this cozy spot feels like a small-town college coffee shop. Mismatched couches and chairs sit in the center of the room. We like Urban Grind because there is an energy here—that has nothing to do with the caffeine. On nights when they host live music, comedy, or slam poetry, nearly every chair is filled with a variety of folks. Get a signature drink like the white raspberry mocha.

If you spend way too much time on BookTok, let us introduce you to Read Shop in Vinings. Since the number of bookstores with in-house cafes has dwindled dangerously close to zero, this feels like a rare find even if they only sell coffee table beauties and NYT bestsellers. The glass book shelves hanging from the central ceiling are straight out of our dream house Pinterest board (which, we started immediately after seeing these shelves).

Typography painted on a gray cement wall relays that Cafe Comma in Vinings doesn’t have inspirational quotes, but they do have good coffee and good vibes. That’s perfect because we can live, laugh, love somewhere else after we get our caffeine fix from this grab-and-go spot. Unique signature coffee flavors like a charcoal coconut or a frothy orange dreamsicle make this our first stop when we’re bored with regular old cups of coffee.

The Daily in Inman Park bills itself as a coffee shop, but the food is honestly good enough to be a standalone breakfast spot. Signature drinks like their black sesame latte will keep caffeine seekers happy. But for anyone who hates coffee, their food items pack more punch than a double espresso. If we could marry a breakfast burrito we’d choose this one. It’s grilled (taking a hint from Bell Street) and packed with eggs, home fries, pickled onions, and the freshest salsa verde we’ve ever had.

Prevail Coffee in West Midtown might just be the bougiest coffee spot we’ve ever been to. Massive pillars rise up to the nearly 20-foot ceilings, and long, elegant white drapes divide the room in half. Slide into a leather, semi-circle booth with a signature drink like their tasty fig latte, sweetened with a housemade (of course it is) fig syrup. No, you're not in Calabasas, darlings, but you are in a land overflowing with milk substitutes—like Myracle Mylk and macadamia nut creamer—and honey.

Chrome Yellow is the best hub for Edgewood’s work-from-home crews. Their mid-morning soundtrack features the gurgling of coffee machines mixed with the clacking of keyboards and some light chatter. This cafe cacophony is music to our ears, especially when we’re chomping on their tasty breakfast empanadas and sipping on small-batch roasts of their own coffee blends. We like their oat milk lattes, which give us that silky foam top we love and hardly any bitterness.

Momo Cafe sits at the front of Japanese restaurant Momonoki in Midtown. They offer a variety of coffees and teas at their service counter—the refreshing matcha latte is our favorite order. A display case with appetizing small pastries like mochi donuts and gorgeous, fancy croissants (get the savory onion, gruyere, and rosemary combo) make you want to order food, too. So take your mini breakfast and caffeine crutch upstairs.

Perc has two Atlanta locations—one in the Highlands and one in East Lake. The Highlands location always serves us some small-town charm with our coffee. The surrounding quaint shops of the VaHi strip and retro, mint-colored order counter are a welcome escape from the busy metro (especially after braving the many potholed Peachtree streets). But signature drinks, like My Morning Jacket (a latte with vanilla, black walnut bitters, and spices) still appeal to our big city tastes.