Puerto Vallarta for digital nomads

Best cafes

Puerto Vallarta's cafe map is not the tidy specialty-coffee grid you find in a redeveloped capital. It is a mix of beach-town ice-cream counters that double as espresso stops, tucked-away coffee bars behind the Malecon, and roaster-run rooms in the residential grid north of the Rio Cuale where the office crowd eats breakfast. What ties them together is hours that respect a tourist town: several open by 07:00 or 07:30 and stay lit past 22:00, which is unusual for a Mexican secondary city and tells you a great deal about who lives here now. The list below runs from the ice-cream-first counters near the south beaches, up through the Púlpito bend behind Playa de los Muertos, out to the Versalles grid where the Francia and Viena addresses cluster, and finally into the northern colonias past the airport. Skip the beachfront chains that price in dollars: the addresses here are where the neighbourhood drinks its own coffee, and where the second cup is usually free of the sales pitch.