The original Morning Glass is the cafe of your personal Hawaiian fantasia: an exceedingly chill open-air box of a show, deposited outside the city in the valley neighborhood of Mānoa. A wide gamut of coffee — on a recent visit, San Francisco’s Four Barrel, Portland’s Coava, and a daily rotating Hawaiian option — along with outstanding housemade sodas (the deep, balanced matcha soda is a perfect drink), a tight food menu (egg sandwiches and mac-and-cheese pancakes for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch), and a surprising magazine selection leave little else to be desired. If you’re going to spend a while in one shop, this is probably it.

Brue Bar is, in many ways, an extremely standard iteration on the Coffee Shop That Takes Itself Seriously (see: teetering glass cold-brew drip towers, Slayer espresso machine). But it has at least two things going for it: a relative shortage of such shops in Honolulu (especially downtown), and coffee from Santa Cruz’s Verve, which basically started as fancy coffee for surf bros by surf bros — essentially, the perfect coffee roaster for Honolulu. That, well done, forgives virtually all of its branding sins.

Did you know? In 2017 it’s now literally illegal to talk about coffee shops in the United States without mentioning at least one Australian cafe. And Arvo is very #2017, if you find yourself suddenly in need of something very of the moment: There is toast, and it comes with avocados and also without; there are chia bowls and matcha everything and Bowls of All Kinds; there is an activated charcoal latte and whatever this drink is; there is Vegemite; and there is a lot of Plant Life with very good lighting. The coffee is probably even pretty good, too, if you can drink it through this fern.

Okay, you shouldn’t actually drink the coffee at Nana’s Green Tea, the first, and so far, only U.S. location of the Japanese chainlet, one of a dozenish Japanese concepts bundled together in the belly of the Waikiki Shopping Plaza as Waikiki Yokocho — should you drink coffee anywhere, really? — but you should certainly drink the tea drinks. The core beverages, a matcha latte and usucha (thin matcha) are built on a foundation of properly earthy, grassy matcha; the hojicha at the heart of the hojicha latte is soft and mellow. This is all to say nothing of the soft serve — but an iced matcha from Nana’s may be the most pleasant caffeine delivery experience in all of Waikīkī.

While something of a paint-by-numbers coffee shop — a quasi-cavernous cube with soaring ceilings, white marble, faintly Moroccan patterned floor tile, and woooooooood — the combined Kona Coffee Purveyors and b. Patisserie outpost offers something of a respite from the upscale mall that engulfs Waikīkī’s Kalākaua Avenue like a canyon whose walls are composed entirely of global retail branding that has been compressed into solid rock over thousands of years. Everything really is better when you bury your face in the SF bakery’s iconic sesame kouign amann. One of the other fully modern Kona specialists — well-designed packaging, lighter roasts, standard Fancy Coffee trappings — KCP is the other place you might try Kona coffee, if you’re so inclined. At least if you’re disappointed, you can cry into another pastry from b. Patisserie.