Before you take your first sip of a lovely matcha latte, easy parking, natural lighting and a soundtrack of love songs from the ‘90s put this cozy cafe right over the top. Choose iced or hot with soy milk (add 50 cents) whisked and sweetened to taste. Come twice and they’ll likely remember your name and how you like your organic matcha. Free Wifi with plenty of wall outlets, plus great toast, means you may linger for a second cup.

On a light-filled corner within shouting distance of USF, order a matcha tea latte, matcha latte with boba, or a large iced matcha latte with tapioca. Free, dependable Wifi, plus better than decent doughnuts, and a 7 a.m. opening time on weekdays deem this a destination cafe for that first matcha of the morning.

This national chain originated in Canada, providing very bright and clean spaces with good customer service at three locations in the city. Three straight matcha options are always on the menu, as well as a couple of rotating matcha choices. And if you fall for the extra fine premium grand cru matcha powder or matcha matsu for shakes and smoothies, you can buy a canister for home.

The only Bay Area outpost of this Hawaii-based chain delivers matcha just about any way you could want it: as a latte, as a frappe, whisked into chocolate milk, as a syrup drizzled over shave ice, or as soft serve ice cream — not to mention layered matcha parfaits and photogenic sundaes.

Japantown’s Aube serves Instagram-ready soft serve in fluted cones — including one lined with matcha chocolate — with matcha sprinkled on top for free. The most matcha-tastic offering, though, is the matcha tiramisu, featuring layers of roasted green tea soft serve, lady fingers, mascarpone, matcha milk, and matcha powder.

It looks like a typical Hong Kong-style dessert cafe at first, but U:Dessert Story actually takes influences from Japan, Korea, and Thailand for its Asian fusion sweets. You’ll find matcha mille crepe cakes, matcha chocolate lava cakes, matcha bingsu (Korean shaved ice), and matcha ice cream floats, and to drink, matcha lattes alongside ceremonial-grade matcha

Each matcha latte at Urban Ritual features a double shot of organic tea via Jade Leaf Matcha, sourced from Uji, Japan. You can get it hot or iced, adjust the sweetness, choose the milk, and add toppings like boba and lychee jelly. One of the cafe’s signature drinks, the Matcha Toffee, ups hthe ante with bits of housemade toffee brittle.

Pair your matcha with tapioca pearls at Boba Guys, where you can get organic matcha poured over Straus Family Creamery milk, housemade syrup, and boba. Another version pairs the matcha latte with strawberry preserves, and the matchata, matcha whisked over horchata, is not a secret anymore.

This is San Francisco’s first premium matcha cafe — a space wholly devoted to matcha, with top-notch tea available hand whisked, sparkling, with milk, or over ice cream. It’s also infused into all sorts of treats, including matcha cream puffs, matcha croissants, and matcha cream pies — some of which are the result of a collaboration with Tartine Bakery.

Sip on a matcha latte or matcha white hot chocolate while you feast on one of Enter the Cafe’s matcha mochi waffles. Visit on a weekend, and you might get lucky and score a matcha croissant from Baker Doe. The croissant flavors rotate, but past editions include matcha red bean, matcha tiramisu, and matcha cream.

The Hokkaido-based chain draws long lines for its soft, delicate cheese tarts. It also serves a vivid green version spiked with matcha. Consider it for true matcha lovers only, as the flavor is intense and less sweet than you might expect — not to mention, Bake Cheese Tart is so prone to selling out of the matcha treats early that it limits each customer to six.

Steep has quickly expanded to three locations in San Francisco, in part thanks to its careful tea sourcing. Steep uses ceremonial-grade Uji matcha in its drinks — choose from classic tea, matcha latte, matcha milk tea, matcha red bean milk tea, or strawberry matcha lemonade — as well as in its rolled ice cream.

The creators of the cult hit mochi muffin also make seriously tasty matcha drinks at their Berkeley show room. They range from the typical (hand whisked or in latte form) to the creative (matcha with rice milk, turmeric, and honey, or sparkling matcha with lychee), and you can pair them with one of Third Culture’s matcha baked goods, like matcha custard cakes or matcha-glazed mochi donuts.