There are few things more New York than having a coffee shop. Not just somewhere you occasionally get caffeine, but a place that somehow becomes part of your routine, your neighborhood identity, and, eventually, your personality. The place you stop before work. The place you take a Friend who is visiting. The place where you sit with your laptop for exactly 47 minutes before deciding you have done enough. The place where the barista might know your order—or, more importantly, where you hope they know your order.

And right now, New York’s coffee scene is having a particularly good moment. The city is full of tiny cafés, cult bakeries, neighborhood gems, and places so aesthetically pleasing that getting an iced coffee can somehow become the main event of your Saturday.

So forget your zodiac sign. The coffee shop you gravitate toward might tell you more about who you are.

If You’re the Effortlessly Put-Together Girl: The Elk

You somehow always look good, even when you insist you “just threw something on.” Your apartment has good lighting. Your tote bag is cute but not aggressively branded. You know the best places to get a manicure, but you discovered them organically, obviously.

Your coffee shop is The Elk in the West Village.

The Elk has that rare quality of feeling simultaneously cool and completely lived-in. It’s the kind of neighborhood spot where you can grab coffee, pick up something for breakfast, and feel like you have briefly stepped into the life of a much more organized version of yourself.

This is not the girl who needs a coffee shop to announce that it is cool. She already knows.

Order: Coffee and a breakfast burrito.
Your vibe: Off-duty model running errands.
Your toxic trait: Saying you didn’t think about your outfit when you absolutely did.

If You’re the Social Girl: Fellini

You are rarely actually “just getting coffee.” There is usually a Friend involved. And if there isn’t, you will probably make one.

You love a spontaneous plan, know approximately 14 people in your neighborhood, and can turn a quick coffee into a three-hour catch-up without breaking a sweat. Your calendar is full, but somehow in a fun way.

Your spot is Fellini, because it feels made for the girl who wants her coffee run to be part of the social scene. With multiple Manhattan locations and a playful menu, it has become one of those places that naturally fits into a downtown day.

You are getting coffee before brunch. Or after brunch. Or instead of brunch because you have decided coffee and a pastry are enough.

Order: Tiramisu latte.
Your vibe: “Wait, are you free later?”
Your toxic trait: Having three separate coffee dates in one week.

If You’re the Main-Character Wanderer: Caffe Paradiso

You don’t really make plans. You make neighborhoods your plans.

Give you a sunny Saturday, a cute outfit, and a vague reason to be downtown and you’re happy. You might start in Nolita, walk through SoHo, end up in the West Village, and somehow make it home eight hours later carrying a shopping bag you don’t remember purchasing.

Your coffee stop is Caffe Paradiso in Nolita.

It has exactly the kind of energy that rewards wandering in without a strict agenda. The coffee is good, the drinks are fun, and it fits perfectly into a day that is really more about seeing where the city takes you.

This is coffee as an accessory to the day—not the entire purpose of it.

Order: Salted brown butter & oat latte.
Your vibe: “Let’s just walk around.”
Your toxic trait: Thinking you can walk from Nolita to the Upper East Side.

If You’re the Food Girl: Radio Bakery

You care about the coffee, but let’s be honest: you’re here for the pastry.

You have strong opinions about croissants. You can identify a good laminated pastry from across the room. You have sent someone a photo of a pastry before sending them an actual life update. You believe breakfast is one of the great pleasures of being alive.

Your destination is Radio Bakery.

This is for the girl who doesn’t mind making the coffee run slightly more complicated if the reward is worth it. Radio Bakery has earned its cult following for its pastries, particularly its beautifully laminated creations, and it has become one of those NYC food destinations that people will happily travel for.

You aren’t “picking something up.” You are securing the pastry.

Order: Whatever looks flakiest.
Your vibe: Breakfast is an event.
Your toxic trait: Saying “I’ll just have a bite” before eating half.

If You’re the Girl Who Always Knows Somewhere: Lê Phin

You are the Friend that everyone texts when they want to know where to go.

You don’t necessarily want the most obvious place. You want the place that feels like a discovery. You like trying something new, you probably have a running list of restaurants saved in your Notes app, and you get disproportionately excited when someone says, “I’ve never heard of that place.”

Your coffee shop is Lê Phin.

With Vietnamese coffee and drinks inspired by Southeast Asian flavors, it offers something a little outside the standard NYC coffee rotation. It’s for the girl who would rather order something intriguing than another variation of a vanilla latte—and will absolutely insist that everyone try hers.

Order: Vietnamese iced coffee or pandan latte.
Your vibe: In-the-know, but not trying too hard.
Your toxic trait: Saying “I know this really cute place” before sending a location 25 minutes away.

And perhaps that’s the best part of having a coffee shop personality in New York: you don’t have to commit to one.

Some mornings you’re the effortlessly put-together girl at The Elk. Some Saturdays you’re the social girl at Fellini. Sometimes you are wandering downtown with a Caffe Paradiso latte and absolutely nowhere to be. And occasionally, you are standing in line at Radio Bakery at 9 a.m. because apparently a croissant has become the most important thing happening in your life.

The city gives you permission to be a slightly different version of yourself every day.

And really, isn’t that what the perfect coffee shop is supposed to do?

— Your Friend