It's the city's smallest coffee shop; it only serves self-roasted espresso; it's in the back of a barbershop; it's in Williamsburg, of course.[Photo]

Perhaps the most metrics-focused shop in the city, baristas here actually *weigh* their espresso shots. It runs through coffees from roasters all over the country (Portland's Heart, SF's Ritual, etc.). The space is somewhat mediocre, but the coffee is not. [Photo]

The flagship store of NYC mini-chain Joe, it has what's perhaps the widest range of coffees available in the city prepared by some of its most obsessive baristas. Bonus: It doubles as an official outlet for Espresso Parts, so there's not a better place to find mildly obscure coffee gear either, like Hario's famed coffee scale.[Photo]

A multi-roaster shop, Yeekai Lim's pop-up coffee bar Cognoscenti now has a permanent home in the office of starchitect Clive Wilkinson. Obsessively brewed coffee, obsessively designed space. [Photo]

Serious coffee shops aren't often serious about food, but Gaslight tries to have it all: house-roasted beans and house-pickled vegetables in "a space that grandmas and cool kids can both dig on."[Photo]

A spinoff from Woodberry Kitchen, the show here is almost as much about the food as it is the coffee, which is roasted by Square One and Counter Culture.[Photo]

A coffee truck gone brick-and-mortar, the first location from Tommy and Chris Newbury is a superclean space serving up Four Barrel Coffee. (The food highlight here is the brisket dip sandwich.) [Photo]

A progressive coffee menu stocked with twists on classics like the cho-tonic (cold brewed coffee + tonic and orange peel) and tasting menus combos like the sidecar (a cappuccino and a shot), the one & and fun (a macchiato and a shot) or the "one of everything" for serious caffiene deprivation emergencies, this is one of the most exciting shops around, and that's not counting the killer doughnuts. [Photo]

A food town this hot needs a killer coffee bar or two, and Black Tap supplies it with coffee roasted by NC-based powerhouse Counter Culture — check its Twitter account for when fresh beans arrive — also, mixed coffee drinks with house-made syrups. [Photo]

Serving single-origin coffees roasted by Boulder-based Boxcar along with a rotating selection of guest offerings like Ceremony and Ritual, its logo is a mustachioed pugilist which counts for an extra 1000 points. And they're using the slightly less common (and uncommonly beautiful) Bee House variety of dripper for pourover brewing.

Billing itself as a "coffee tasting" bar — there is no more twee way to refer to a coffee shop — this San Diego spot roasts its own beans in small batches and blends its own teas in a clean, clean space. [Photo]

Housed in the former space of iconic gay bar Mary's, Blacksmith's plan to take coffee further is an "enthusiast bar" with a rotating selection of coffee and paired food items. Evidence of super-serialness: a water filtration system that'll take Houston city water from 225TDS to just 5.[Photo]

Hotshot Boston-area roaster Barismo's coffee bar/bakeshop just started offering full-on brunch service on Sundays. Otherwise, expect the serious standards of a serious roaster here; I mean, it's called dwelltime, which refers to the amount of time ground coffee is touching water during a brew cycle.

Logos don't get much more fucking adorable than Tandem's. The cafe/roastery is run by ex-Blue Bottlers who've gone so far as to crib the original La Marzocco from the coffee micro-giant's Hayes Valley location. And of course, siphon brewing is available, which should pair real nicely with Tandem's au courant super light roasting style. Oh, and no Wi-Fi. [Photo]

From Matt Bolinder of Matt's Wood Roasted Coffee, you can expect a variety of single-origin coffees brewed via siphon or the increasingly popular alternative to the V60 pourover, the Kalita Wave. [Photo]

A restaurant/coffee/wine bar hybrid with tables that in a former life were bowling alley laid out with a heavy dose of feng sui (seriously), the coffee is available via five different brew methods (siphon is probably the way to go) and it's all roasted by Coffee Eiland, who's closely collaborating with Ascension.[Photo]