Craft Coffee Roasters

You'll smell the roasting beans before you even spot the shopfront on Merchants Quay. This is where Dublin's coffee obsessives come for their fix, and frankly, they're onto something. The baristas here actually know what they're doing – your flat white arrives with proper microfoam, not the bubbly mess you get elsewhere, and the single origins change regularly enough to keep things interesting. The space itself is fairly no-nonsense, all exposed brick and industrial touches that let the coffee do the talking. You'll find a mix of locals grabbing their morning ritual and tourists who've wandered over from Temple Bar looking confused by the lack of Irish coffee on the menu. Stick around if you can snag a seat – the atmosphere's relaxed enough for laptop work, but the Wi-Fi's just patchy enough to keep the digital nomads from camping all day.