The guide holds 9 coffee shops in Kuta, and the median rating is 4.7. 67% are rated 4.7 or higher. That is not what a random sample of coffee shops looks like; it is what a filtered one looks like.
Money is not the constraint here. 7 start under Rp 50K a head, and none sit at the expensive end. The ratings do not suffer for it. The median band starts around Rp 37K.
5 are open by 8am. 5 are still open at 10pm, which in Bali counts as late. The typical closing time is 10pm.
The busiest by a distance is Falala Chocolate Bali - Kuta | Coklat Bali, with 11.5k reviews. At the other end are the ones almost nobody has reviewed and everybody rates: Rust Cafe. Google will not show you these, because it ranks by confidence and confidence needs volume — which is the entire reason this guide exists.
Kuta has been out of fashion for twenty years and has quietly kept some very good food. Ignore the strip, which is exactly what you have been told it is, and eat one street back from it.
The median rating is 4.7 on Google, and 6 of the 9 sit at 4.7 or higher.
Typically around 8am, closing about 10pm. 5 are open by 8am and 5 are still going at 10pm.
The median band starts around Rp 37K a head. 7 start under Rp 50K.
Rust Cafe — all rated 4.6 or better with fewer than 150 reviews each.
Ordered by rating weighted against how many people have actually been.