As a minimalist coffee travel blogger, I would like to simply share with you the best way to plan your trip as a coffee nerd.
If there is no good coffee shop or Roastery at my destination when I travel, it sucks.
Let's jump into five ways of planning your trips as a coffee nerd.
1 European Coffee Trip
I think European Coffee Trip is the best website to find a good coffee shop when you are travelling to European countries.
The coverage is pretty wide and what I like about European Coffee Trip is that you can simply research the good coffee shops at your destination.
However, one thing to note is that there is no review done by the website, so depending on the preference of your coffee, you may feel a little bit mismatched.
Yeah travelling Europe and if you cannot miss any good coffee opportunity, this is a reliable source.
WEB: European Coffee Trip
2 Good Coffee
Good Coffee what's the website that I referred to a lot when I was travelling in the Asian region including my home country Japan.
Good Coffee has covered the Coffee shops around Asian regions so for example when I travelled to Taiwan, this was a really useful website to research with.
Currently, the English page URL is broken but hopefully, it will come back soon but Coffee shop if you have any curious coffee shop from good coffee, you can use pick up the name and put it on your Wish List on Google Maps.
WEB: Good Coffee
3 Travel blogger's post
The third option to know the coffee destination is to look up the blogger's posts.
What's good about looking up blogger's posts' is that if it is not a paid article, they have honest opinions so you can most likely trust what they say about the coffee shops.
In my case, it happens a lot that I expected good quality coffee and service and if my criteria to share on this blog are not fulfilled, then I do not write about the coffee shop.
I want to be honest and I only want to introduce good coffee shops and cafes, so even though I can write about bad coffee shops to look good to get more page views, I DO NOT DO THAT because if you trust my posts and go to the coffee shop and coming back with betrayed feeling, it is just not good.
4 Ask locals
To be honest, asking locals is the BEST way of all to know the good coffee shops or cafes at your destination.
If you are a big traveller, you must know how important it is to trust locals' opinions and advice.
When you find good coffee shops, you can also ask the barista working there where else you should visit.
I do not think it is a rude thing to ask other coffee shops since you are travelling and visiting the town from a different place.
If you are sick of looking things up online for your next travel, then it's time to prepare nothing in terms of coffee, let's ask locals.
5 Google Map
This is to expect something random out of the blue.
But one thing you need to be careful about is that the information may be not updated.
If you are looking for a cosy hideaway cafe, then asking locals and using Google Map are good ways to do that.