Seville for digital nomads

Best cafes

Seville's cafe scene divides cleanly between two traditions that rarely acknowledge each other: the old-Andalusian bar-cafe where a cortado costs less than a euro and the regulars never sit down, and the newer brunch-and-specialty-coffee wave that arrived with the city's design crowd in the last decade. The twelve places below cover both ends and several rooms in between. Some open at 08:00 for the working morning; others keep going past midnight. A few sit inside the tourist horseshoe of Santa Cruz; others have moved out toward Macarena and the Alameda, where rents still let an owner-operator make the espresso themselves. This is a list for the reader who wants to drink coffee where Sevillanos actually drink it — at the counter, on a battered marble table, or perched in front of a roaster that ships beans to Barcelona — rather than at the first awning she sees in the cathedral square.