San Juan for digital nomads

Best cafes

San Juan's cafe map runs along two spines and a few tight blocks in between. Avenida Ashford in Condado does the resort-adjacent hospitality; Avenida Juan Ponce de León and Avenida Eduardo Conde in Santurce and Barrio Obrero do the neighbourhood coffee that the city drinks; Viejo San Juan handles the visitors who want a cup with a view of the cobblestones. This list favours the second category and treats the first two with honest scepticism. What follows is 12 addresses that between them open before 07:00 and stretch past dark, that pull espresso from Puerto Rican beans as often as they steam milk into paper cups, and that reward the visitor willing to order in Spanish and stand at the counter. Some are counter-and-stool cafeterias where breakfast is a mallorca and a cortadito; others are sit-down rooms with a wine list attached to a resort. Read the hours, note the postal code, and go where the queue is.