Best Coffee (Espresso-based)

2854 Robie Street, 484-0111 Yes, Steve-O-Reno is a little surly in a sweet kind of way when you’ve just woken up and you’re at his drive-thru shop or Farmer’s Market stand needing a fix, but then, the fix is so satisfying you just end up praising his coffee genius on the first taste. Best of all, Steve will soon become a more fixed coffee-fixing fixture, when his Brunswick Street café opens in a couple weeks.

Runner-up: Second Cup Six SuperCity locations