Awesome Hacking Locations

List of Awesome Hacking Locations, organised by Country and City, listing if it features power and wifi. Inspired by the awesome lists thing.

Index

• Awesome Hacking Spots
  • Index
  • Contribute 🌟
  • Template
  • Hackerspaces
  • CoWorking
• Austria 🇦🇹
  • Vienna
• Belgium 🇧🇪
  • Brussels
• Brazil 🇧🇷
  • Rio de Janeiro
• Bulgaria 🇧🇬
  • Sofia
• Cameroon 🇨🇲
  • Buea
• Canada 🇨🇦
  • Hamilton
  • Montréal
• Denmark 🇩🇰
  • Copenhagen
• Estonia 🇪🇪
  • Tallinn
• France 🇫🇷
  • Paris
• Germany 🇩🇪
  • Berlin
  • Dresden
  • Hamburg
  • Jena
  • Munich
• Hong Kong 🇭🇰
• India 🇮🇳
  • Hyderabad
• Italy 🇮🇹
  • Rome
• Japan 🇯🇵
  • Nagoya
  • Tokyo
  • Kyoto
• Lithuania 🇱🇹
  • Vilnius
• Netherlands 🇳🇱
  • Amsterdam
  • Delft
• Norway 🇳🇴
  • Stavanger
  • Tromsø
  • Ålesund
• Poland 🇵🇱
  • Krakow
  • Gliwice
• Portugal 🇵🇹
  • Aveiro
  • Braga
  • Guimarães
  • Lisbon
  • Porto
  • Viana do Castelo
• Singapore 🇸🇬
  • Outram Park
• Slovenia 🇸🇮
• South Korea 🇰🇷
  • Seoul
• Spain 🇪🇸
  • Barcelona
  • Oviedo
• Sweden 🇸🇪
  • Stockholm
  • Uppsala
• Switzerland 🇨🇭
  • Zurich
• Turkey 🇹🇷
  • Istanbul
• United Kingdom 🇬🇧
  • England
    • London
  • Scotland
    • Edinburgh
• United States 🇺🇸
  • Arizona
  • California
    • Los Angeles, CA
    • San Diego, CA
    • Mountain View, CA
    • Oakland, CA
    • Palo Alto, CA
    • San Francisco, CA
    • San Jose, CA
    • Santa Monica, CA
  • Illinois
    • Chicago, IL
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore, MD
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, MA
    • Cambridge, MA
    • Somerville, MA
  • Minnesota
    • Minneapolis, MN
  • South Carolina
    • Columbia, SC
  • Texas
    • Austin, TX
  • New York
    • New York, NY
  • Virginia
    • Richmond, VA
  • Washington
    • Bellevue, WA
    • Seattle, WA

Contribute 🌟

This is a community curated list, please submit your PR with the spots you know and love for hacking!

Q: What makes a hacking spot awesome?

A place where you would go and take your friends to go hacking with, power and wifi are a plus, having coffee and snacks is a bonus. We are excluding for now places that require a subscription or membership of somekind (unless that membership can be done at the of the visit moment and it doesn’t require a long term commitment).

Template

#### NAME OF THE AWESOME HACKING SPOT

> SMALL DESCRIPTION OF THE AWESOME HACKING SPOT AND WHY IT IS SO AWESOME :D

Webpage: PLACE WEBPAGE (IF NOT AVAILABLE, USE FOURSQUARE SHORT URL)

Wifi | Power | Climatization  | Address | Open Hours
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✔ | ✘ | ❄️/♨️ | [ADDRESS](GOOGLE MAPS SHORT URL) | OPEN HOURS

Hackerspaces

Hackerspaces are great places to hack, and in fact they are so great that they have their own list curated for many years now, if you are looking for a hackerspace, please consult:

• https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

CoWorking

CoWorking offices are awesome, but typically require a long term commitment, if you are looking for something more stable for a long term stay, look at http://coworkingmap.org/

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Austria 🇦🇹

Vienna

MetaLab

Coffee, Club Mate All kind of activities and talks

Webpage: https://metalab.at

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Belgium 🇧🇪

Brussels

Workshop Café

Fantastic coffee shop, delicious ‘Quiche’, lots of tables.

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/WorkshopCafeBelgium/

Hackerspace Brussels (HSBXL)

Hackerspace Brussels (HSBXL) is a space, dedicated to various aspects of constructive & creative hacking. The space is about 300 square meters, there is a little electronics lab with over 9000 components, a library, and lots of tools. You’re always welcome to follow one of the workshops or come to the weekly Tuesday meetings, hack nights or other get-together events.

Webpage: https://hsbxl.be/

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Brazil 🇧🇷

Rio de Janeiro

Grama

Front-end company that supports open culture. Not too many seats, but fast wifi. It’s free.

Webpage: http://grama.cc/

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Bulgaria 🇧🇬

Sofia

Fabrika Daga

Different types of coffee, great food

Webpage: https://foursquare.com/v/фабрика-дъга/541969e5498e5713ab53d2ff

SoHo

Co-working space, friendly hosts, artistic setting; has coffee, kitchen, bar and a garden. Entrance fee: 8 EUR to rent a desk

Webpage: http://soho.bg/

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Cameroon 🇨🇲

Buea

ActivSpaces

Webpage: https://activspaces.com

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Canada 🇨🇦

Hamilton

Mulberry Street Coffeehouse

Cafe in the former lobby of an 1880s hotel. Great coffee, beer, sweets & sandwiches.

Webpage: http://www.mulberrycoffeehouse.com/

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Montréal

Café Replika

Turkish coffee, pastries & sandwiches in a chill spot blending rustic & modern decor.

Webpage: http://cafereplika.com

Denmark 🇩🇰

Copenhagen

The Black Diamond

The Royal Danish Library / the Black Diamond

Webpage: http://www5.kb.dk/en/dia/

Copenhagen Coffee Lab

Roasts and sells their own coffee

Webpage: http://copenhagencoffeelab.com/

The Coffee Collective (Godthåbsvej)

Coffee connoisseurs: Roasts and sells their own coffee + won several coffee championships (bad cellphone coverage)

Webpage: http://coffeecollective.dk/

Emmerys (Store Kongensgade)

Webpage: http://www.emmerys.dk/

Emmerys (Store Strandstræde)

Webpage: http://www.emmerys.dk/

Paludan Bogcafé

Open late

Webpage: http://www.paludan-cafe.dk

Riccos Kaffebar (Sluseholmen)

Make sure to get the rye bread sandwiches. Their advocadomad+kartoffelmad are sublime

Webpage: http://www.riccos.dk

Bevar’s

Open late

Webpage: http://www.bevars.dk

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Estonia 🇪🇪

Tallinn

K-Space

• Chaostreff weekly on Thursdays @ 18:00
• The only hackerspace with a server room (according to hackerspaces.org)
• Various equipment to print, engrave and cut (everything but yourself)
• Bees, honey
• Quiet office, if you don’t have time for fun

Food: Vending Machine + Cafés and Diners + Convenience stores

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France 🇫🇷

Paris

KB CafeShop

Speciality French Coffee Makers

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/CafeShopSouthPigalle

Le Progrès

Webpage: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187147-d1171207-Reviews-Le_Progres-Paris_Ile_de_France.html

Loustic

Small coffee shop but with good coffee

Webpage: http://www.cafeloustic.com/

Anticafe Louvre

You pay 5 euros per hour and everything on the menu is free.

Webpage: http://www.anticafe.eu/louvre

Anticafe Beauborg

You pay 5 euros per hour and everything on the menu is free.

Webpage: http://www.anticafe.eu/beaubourg

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

After a rather quick and free registration process, you get a fancy card and get to come back and enjoy this library’s ambience.

Webpage: http://www-bsg.univ-paris1.fr

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Germany 🇩🇪

Berlin

c-base

A weird old hackspace that masquerades as an alien ship, or vice versa. Good for hacking in dark corners with lots of Club Mate. Non-smoker not friendly. You may need a member to let you in, or to stay for a longer period of time.

Webpage: https://www.c-base.org/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-base

Schiller Bar

Next to a bakery ; very quiet between 10:00 and 18:00 ; awesome (english-speaking) staff.

Webpage: http://www.schillerbar.com

St. Oberholz

famous 2-story startup-beloved bar-restaurant; english-speaking staff.

Webpage: http://sanktoberholz.de/en/coffee/

Dresden

ascii

Café inside the faculty of Computer Science of the Dresden University of Technology; always filled with friendly and helpful people, no matter the topic

Webpage: ascii-dresden.de

Hamburg

attraktor

Makerspace with lots of tools. You may need a member to let you in.

Webpage: blog.attraktor.org

CCC Hamburg

Hackerspace of the CCC Hamburg. You may need a member to let you in.

Webpage: hamburg.ccc.de

Jena

Café Rossi

Next to the university; below the local hackspace home-baked cake and pastries;

Munich

Lost Weekend

Trendy coffee place + bookstore + vegan food; always filled with students during the weekend

Webpage: lostweekend.de

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Hong Kong 🇭🇰

Pink Coffee

They have a standing desk!

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/PinkCoffeeHK

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India 🇮🇳

Hyderabad

Whiteboard Cafe

Healthy food, books, printer, fast wifi

Webpage: http://www.whiteboard.cafe, Zomato

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Italy 🇮🇹

Rome

Cafe Peru

Nice little coffee, they have home-made pastries and good coffee (it is hidden in a beautiful location)

Webpage: http://www.caffeperu.it/

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Japan 🇯🇵

Nagoya

Trunk Coffee

Super hipster, great music, really take their coffee seriously. They roast their own coffee.

Webpage: http://www.trunkcoffee.com

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Tokyo

Fuglen

Scandinavian cafe with some seats, great coffee, nice music, and a hipster vibe

Webpage: http://www.fuglen.com/japanese/

Open Source Cafe

Small hack-cafe with good people and vibes

Webpage: http://www.osscafe.net/ja/

Unir Coffee

24 Hour Hotel Lobby coffeeshop with industrial modern edge and a robot

Webpage: http://unir-coffee-akasaka.com

Kyoto

Mos Cafe

Nice cafe where they don’t mind if you stay for the whole day. The wifi is so so but you can buy wi2 premium for 3$/6h.

Webapage: https://www.mos.jp/shop/detail/02388/

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Lithuania 🇱🇹

Vilnius

There are plenty of “Caffeine” branded cafes around that have pretty good wifi and service. English speakers are hit and miss, be prepared for a lot of random pointing and confusion. If you’re paying with a credit card, expect people freaking out about what to do with a receipt that requires signing (no POS systems here support PINs).

Knygynas DRAUGYSTĖ

A cafe connected to a bookshop. Very tolerant of hacker types who never leave. Wifi is about 8mbit, and fairly stable. Most speak enough English you can order a coffee, and the coffee is good. Cow milk only.

Webpage: https://vaga.lt/knygynas/draugyste-knygynas-gedimino-pr-2-vilnius

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Netherlands 🇳🇱

Amsterdam

Dwaze Zaken

Near the Amsterdam Central Station; Good food; Live music every Monday starting at 20:00

Webpage: dwazezaken.nl

YsBreeker

Big beautiful and friendly cafe. Incredibly fast wifi and tons of seating. Very good food and high-quality coffee drinks.

Webpage: http://www.deysbreeker.nl/

Public Space

Across the river from Amsterdam Central. Great food, great coffee, remote worker friendly.

Webpage: publicspace.amsterdam

Delft

Kek

Near the Delft Central Station; Good food; Hipster place; Has a small store (great for last minute gifts)

Webpage: kekdelft.nl

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Norway 🇳🇴

Stavanger

Coffeeberry

Awesome coffee with breakfast deal of coffee, juice and rye bread w/ brown cheese.

Webpage: http://www.coffeeberry.com/

Kokko

Roasters, Architecture, Design, Books.

Webpage: http://www.kokkokokko.no/

Bluebird

Award winning coffee and cosy place.

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/Bluebirdkaffebar/

Tromsø

Lugar 34

Very comfy and chill place. Beer is expensive as hell like everywhere else in Norway, but they also do excellent coffee. Has hippie style. 8mbit/1mbit wifi. Great opening hours.

Webpage: https://facebook.com/lugar34

Ålesund

Racoon coffee and More

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/Racoon-Coffee-More-as-303455009847582/

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Poland 🇵🇱

Krakow

Karma Coffee

Awesome coffee shop. Multiple locations, only been to this one (closest to main square). Not too many seats, but fast wifi.

Webpage: http://www.karmaroasters.com/

COFFEE Street

Not big coffee shop with great coffee, very nice atmosphere and fast wifi. All you need for hacking.

Webpage: www.coffeestreet.pl

Blossom

Great coffee and food at reasonable prices.

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/BlossomCoffeeAndFood/

Café Lisboa

Solid coffee in a portuguese ambience. Calm music, lovely summer garden. A tiny spot but never loud. Great pasteis de nata, lunch options too.

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/cafelisboa.krakow/

Café Tektura

Great coffee, with multiple brew choices, and sound food. Smallish and usually quiet.

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/TEKTURAcafe/

Coffee Corner

Good coffee and tea, right in the middle of the main railway station. Can get busy but usually not very loud. Plenty of electrical plugs available.

Webpage: http://www.coffeecorner.pl/

Spółdzielnia Ogniwo

Friendly cooperative bookstore cafe in the Kazimierz district. On offer coffees and teas from independed producents from all around the world.

Webpage: http://ogniwo.org/

Gliwice

Kafo

Great coffee shop. Location in the city center (near main square), high quality coffee and snacks. It’s small, but cozy place. They have wifi.

Webpage: http://kafo.info/

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Portugal 🇵🇹

Aveiro

Mercado Negro

Old refurnished house; vintage; good for night owl hackers that just wanted to get something done. Calm and clean with several rooms, so there’s always a quiet place to work.

Webpage: mercadonegro-aveiro.blogspot.pt

NATA Lisboa

Small modern place in the city “centre”. Calm, clean, a good variety of tapas to eat. Speciality natas.

Webpage: natalisboa.com

Braga

Nórdico Coffee Shop & Brunch

Specialty coffee and brunch in the city center. Calm, clean, great food, even better coffee.

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/Nordicocoffeeshop/

Starbucks Braga

Starbucks coffee shop in the city center, with WiFi access and some tables to work. Calm and clean space.

Webpage: http://www.starbucks.pt/store-locator/search/location/Braga%2C%20Portugal/detail/1021430

Café São Martinho

Small, unknown café near the city stadium. Has a pool table, small indoor garden, a small terrace, smoker and non-smoker areas. Not the regular hacker café, but an actual place for hackers that want some quiet place to be during the day, away from the commotion of the city center.

Webpage: N/A

Centro Comercial Nova Arcada

Shopping mall just outside Braga, surprisingly very quiet during the week and many people go there to study/work. There is free WiFi provided by the mall, you just need to re-login every 45 or so minutes (I hacked away this script to automate the process, seemed to work for a whole afternoon). There are power plugs available, restaurants and cafes are on the same floor and free bus from/to city center during the week.

Webpage: http://www.novaarcada.pt/

Guimarães

Espaço Guimarães

Shopping mall just outside Guimarães. There is free WiFi provided by the mall, you just need to re-login once in a while. There is a big offer in power outlets on the restaurant zone. There is also a free shuttle between the shopping and the city (currently suspended due to the pandemic).

Webpage: https://espaco-guimaraes.klepierre.pt

Lisbon

Amélia

Nice place with really nice environment and laptop friendly!

Webpage: http://ilovenicolau.com

Wifi pw: ilovenicolau

Choupana Café

Webpage: http://4sq.com/XuO7me

Confeitaria Lisboa

Well lit, great croissants.

Webpage: http://4sq.com/1JRQG4q

Copenhagen Coffee Lab, Lisboa

Pour over, aeropress, espressoo - this place has got it all.

Webpage: http://copenhagencoffeelab.com/cafe-at-rua-nova-da-piedade/

Ler Devagar

Fantastic library with a vintage collection of books. Make sure to taste ‘bolo da marta’ on the first floor.

Webpage: http://www.lerdevagar.com/

Fábrica Coffee Roasters

One of the places in Lisbon where they actually understand coffee.

Webpage: http://4sq.com/1dQaY6h

Montana Lisboa Café

Street Art shop + speciality coffee place that is laptop friendly!

Webpage: http://4sq.com/2fHRcQF

Wifi pw: graffiti

O pão nosso

Although small, it is a great bakery. Staff is super friendly.

Webpage: http://www.opaonosso.pt/

Wifi pw: fermento

Padaria Portuguesa - Cais do Sodré

One of the many Padaria Portuguesa bakeries, delivious sweets and sandwiches.

Webpage: apadariaportuguesa.pt

Wifi pw: portuguesa

Pois Café

Webpage: http://www.poiscafe.com/

Quatro ao Rato

Nice place with nice environment in the middle of city. Always has a vegetarian alternative for lunch. Opens early.

Webpage: https://pt-pt.facebook.com/quatroaorato/

Royale Café

Quiet and friendly staff. A bit on the pricey $$ side though.

Webpage: http://www.royalecafe.com

Tartine

Webpage: http://tartine.pt/

Wish - Slow Coffee House

Small coffee shop with good tables

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/wishslowcoffeehouse

Mercearia do Campo

Great lunch menu, quiet all day (except lunch), friendly people and cosy atmosphere.

Webpage: http://www.merceariadocampo.pt/en_GB/

Eric Kayser

Open space even with wifi outdoors and nice cakes, could be noisy sometimes

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/erickayserportugal

Porto

Bop

Hipster vibes with large record collection, coffee, beer, and tasty bagels.

Webpage: https://www.bop.pt

Costa COFFEE

Influencer vibes, great coffee, English-speaking, accepts AliPay and has nice croissants.

Webpage: https://https://www.costa.co.uk/

Duas de Letra

Calm and cosy cafe with relaxing music and a nice backyard.

Webpage: (duasdeletra.pt)[http://duasdeletra.pt/]

Embaixado

Quiet cafe with nice music, empty upstairs, great salad, and cool dances at night.

Webpage: embaixadaporto.com

Mesa 325

Good spot to while away a day with plenty of outlets, great coffee and cheap eats.

Webpage: http://4sq.com/28XN73L

Moustache

Very nice and cozy coffee in the city center of Porto, near Carmo Church and Fountain of Lions. Has 2 floors, with a lot of comfortable chairs and a small room with tables and plugs.

Webpage: http://www.moustache.pt/

Café Candelabro

Coffee shop, library and bookshop right in the center of Porto.

Webpage: https://www.cafecandelabro.com/

Café Vitória

Restaurant and coffee shop right in the center of Porto with a nice garden in the back.

Webpage: http://www.cafevitoria.com/

Viana do Castelo

Pastelaria Jardim

Hacking with a great view of the city’s park

Webpage: https://pt.foursquare.com/v/pastelaria-jardim/4f1c28e5e4b08fa665830c09

Casinha Boutique Café

Quiet place near the city center, with lots of natural light and a good selection of snacks and salads.

Webpage: https://pt.foursquare.com/v/casinha-boutique-caf%C3%A9/53909128498ec1bfd0cfcb7a

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Singapore 🇸🇬

Outram Park

Just Want Coffee

Not so much noisy and crowded. It is located nearby MRT station. Coffee and cakes are also good.

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/JWCEverton/

Bread & Hearth

In the center of Keong Siak road, with plenty of coffee shops and restaurants. Awesome handcrafted artisan bread, and decent coffee. Crowded between 12 - 2pm.

Webpage: http://breadandhearth.com/

one north

Jimmy Monkey

Friendly to keyboard warriors, they also do a selection of simple-done-right munchies.

Webpage: http://www.jimmymonkey.com/

Slovenia 🇸🇮

See https://github.com/otobrglez/awesome-workplaces-slovenia

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South Korea 🇰🇷

Seoul

Hollys Coffee, Line 9, Sinnonhyeon station

Extremely fast, stable internet, Power outlet on every seats, 24 Hours open

I saw ASUS RT-AC68U WiFi Router

Router connected with KT Giga Internet, which is fastest internet in South Korea (including oversea network access)

Many seats and seat types (Sofa, Bar Stools…)

Has Smoking Area

Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/osWKar7YQfm

Naver Map: http://naver.me/FjThMRso

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Spain 🇪🇸

Barcelona

Ideal

Cozy coffee shop which also serves natural juices and tasty food. Has a nice terrace on the back.

Webpage: http://4sq.com/14xZ71H

Joliu

Coffee shop with a great ambiance (Full of plants and music delicious to the ear)

Webpage: http://espaijoliu.tumblr.com/

Frenesi Cafe

Small cozy coffee shop with comfortable sits and lots of plugs (even USB plugs)

Webpage: http://frenesicafe.com

Federal Café

Café with great natural lightning and delicious food

Webpage: http://federalcafe.es/barcelona-gotic/

52 Moments

Cafe with lots of free tables (most of which have a power socket nearby) since most people only come for takeaway. Staff mostly speaks a little English, enough to communicate. Fairly loud, bring a headset, not ideal for meeting heavy days.

Oviedo

26Grados

Super central, powerful wifi and awesome biscuits.

Webpage: http://www.26grados.com/

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Sweden 🇸🇪

In general, you can go to any Wayne’s Coffee or Espresso House to get wifi and a power point. Wayne’s Coffee wifi is usually a bit spotty compared with the Espresso Houses that I tried, and Espresso House often caters for laptop users with power points under chairs or near tables.

Stockholm

Café Fåtöljen

Coffee is okay. Open access point, ~7mbit down on average, 1mbit up. Ample power. Very quiet and very close to the metro.

Webpage: http://cafefatoljen.com

Café Pascal

The shared wifi at the time was 200mbit down, 40mbit up. Excellent food, excellent coffee. Not a good long term working spot, but great to upload an iOS app while eating and drinking brilliant food.

Webpage: https://cafepascal.se

Uppsala

Cafe Linne

Nice place. Food is a bit pricey but very good. Coffee is good. English is understood, as are foreign cards. Wifi is good enough. Open ridiculously late!

Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/cafelinne/

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Switzerland 🇨🇭

Zurich

Boreal Coffee Shop - Talacker

Very nice coffee, spacious, good tables to work and a bunch of couches.

Webpage: http://www.borealcoffee.ch/

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Turkey 🇹🇷

Istanbul

Istanbul HS

Webpage: https://istanbulhs.org

Denizli

Denizli HS

A Hackerspace spot.

Webpage: http://www.denizlihs.org/

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United Kingdom 🇬🇧

England

London

London Hackspace

Access to C&C Mill, Laser cutter, 3d printer(s) & more. Food & drinks available

Webpage: https://london.hackspace.org.uk/

Scotland

Edinburgh

Edinburgh Hacklab

Edinburgh Hacklab is part of the worldwide movement of Hackerspaces - shared spaces for people who mess around with technology for fun.

Webpage: https://edinburghhacklab.com/

BrewLab

Restoration hardware styled light cafe with professional brews, good seats, wifi, great music, food, in the old part of town.

Webpage: www.brewlabcoffee.co.uk

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United States 🇺🇸

Arizona

Tucson, AZ

Shot in the Dark Cafe

local art, some food, kind of punk/dingy, lots of people at their computers, 24/7

California

Los Angeles, CA

The Cow’s End Cafe

Casually cow-themed cafe and deli, with lots of 1st and 2nd floor seating, literally a block from the Pacific Ocean.

San Diego, CA

Vinaka Cafe

Very Californian and laid back. Common spot for locals with wonderful food and ice cream.

Mountain View, CA

Red Rock Coffee

Red walls set the mood at a cafe where art & live music are often served with the coffee & snacks

Oakland, CA

Arbor Cafe

Huge, artsy space with ample power outlets, varied seating, and solid wifi.

Hudson Bay Cafe

Very sunny, cozy spot with tasty coffee and food. Right on the street corner for optimal people-watching.

Palo Alto, CA

HanaHaus

Historic Varsity Theatre location with free and reservable seats, well-tuned wifi, and Blue Bottle Coffee.

Webpage: http://hanahaus.com/

Backyard Brew

Outdoor caffee in backyard with tents to shelter you from sun/rain. Open all-year round.

Webpage: https://aoccoffee.com/

San Francisco, CA

Coffee Bar

Big and spacious space with many seats, lots of plugs, not that great WiFi. During summer it may get quite hot as no AC/good airflow.

Sightglass Coffee

Even though no-wifi and no power plugs, still worth visiting because it is very vibrant space, with cool vibe.

Webpage: https://sightglasscoffee.com/

Black Hammer Brewing

If you are “over-coffeed” you can try this great brewery with lot of craft beers on tap. Very work-friendly (USB ports, staff will even loan out cables for charging). In the evening it gets quite busy.

Webpage: https://blackhammerbrewing.com

San Jose, CA

Caffe Frascati

Nice decor & theming, upstairs seating, and friendly staff. Wifi is decent.

Santa Monica, CA

Refinery

Great coffee and usually has available seating. Wifi is bad.

Webpage: http://the-refinery.cafes-city.com/

Illinois

Chicago, IL

Dolce Casa

A coffee shop, a European-style café, and a neighborhood gathering spot all in one.

Webpage: http://dolcecasacafe.com/

The Perfect Cup

Coffee, tea, and great snacks. Plus, it’s close to the Brown “L” train line.

Webpage: http://www.perfectcupchicago.com/

Maryland

Baltimore, MD

The Bun Shop

Loftlike, late-night cafe for filled buns like piroshki & empanadas, plus Vietnamese coffee. BYOB.

Massachusetts

Boston, MA

District Hall

Open workspace with whiteboard walls, great coffee, moderately busy.

Webpage: http://www.districthallboston.org/

Pavement Coffeehouse

Great coffee, pretty busy

Webpage: http://pavementcoffeehouse.com/content/736-commonwealth

Pavement Coffeehouse

Great coffee, pretty busy. Lots of plugs, good music.

Webpage: http://www.pavementcoffeehouse.com/content/44-gainsborough

Cambridge, MA

Toscanini’s

Amazing coffee, tea, ice cream, moderately busy

Webpage: http://www.tosci.com/

Somerville, MA

Bloc 11

Same good food as Forge and Diesel, back room is nice, moderately busy, outdoor seating. If you have xfinity, good reception for wifi for that. Acid coffee.

Webpage: http://blocsomerville.com/

Diesel Cafe

Same good food as Bloc 11 and Forge, larger, more industrial, busy but always a space, standing desks at back, lots of resident coders. Acid coffee.

Webpage: http://www.diesel-cafe.com/

Notes: * Contact [@richlitt](https://twitter.com/richlitt) for wifi password if needed. * You get 45m of free wifi per day. More if you know what you’re doing ;) (but $14/mo for wifi is worth it if you hack there often) * Using IPFS will get you kicked off their network in ~2hr (FYI).

Forge Baking Company

Same good food as Bloc 11 and Diesel, busy, bright, not many plugs. Acidic coffee, no vietnamese coffee option.

Webpage: http://www.forgebakingco.com/

Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

Peace Coffee

Good coffee and food options, big tables and a community room available

Webpage: https://www.peacecoffee.com/peace-coffee-shops/wonderland-park/

South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina

Yoghut

Great coffee, acai bowls and bubble tea. Never crowded or noisy either so its good if you enjoy peace and quiet for hacking.

Webpage: https://yoghut.com/

Texas

Austin, TX

Houndstooth Coffee

Unassuming place with pretty outstanding coffee and the space to get things done. Plus it’s in the Frost Bank Building, the most evil looking building in Austin!

Webpage: https://www.houndstoothcoffee.com/

New York

New York, NY

Amazon AWS Loft

Free loft in soho sponsored by Amazon web services with free food, wifi, coffee and beer.

Webpage: https://aws.amazon.com/start-ups/loft/ny-loft/

Ground Support Cafe

Great spot in Soho for getting things done and feeling like you belong with the cool soho crowd

Webpage: http://www.groundsupportcafe.com/

Pushcart Coffee Chelsea

Great community workspace with coffee, pastries and beer.

Webpage: http://www.pushcartcoffee.com/

Virginia

Richmond, VA

Ironclad Coffee

Lots of small and large tables, free fast wifi, plenty of power, and some of the best coffee in Richmond.

Webpage: https://ironcladcoffee.com/

Washington

Bellevue, WA

Bellevue Public Library

Free to all, a lot of space, 3 floors, free parking lot.

Seattle, WA

Seattle Public Library

Free to all, lots of space, must be quiet though.

Zeitgeist

Nice coffee shop, great espresso, moderately busy.

Webpage: http://zeitgeistcoffee.com/

Ada’s Technical Books

Tasty coffee and great food, free wifi and places, but also has paid day passes for private space.

Fix Coffeehouse

Cafe, with beer and nice location on Green Lake