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I always open Google Maps in this case; not the browser. Just my habit, I suppose.

If you put "!g" at the start of your search, DDG automatically redirects you to the search result in google.

I've been using DDG as my search engine for about 2 1/2 years now, and I find absolutely no reason to go back to Google other than location search, and DDG proxies that easily.

I don't have any problem with just searching strings such as "coffee shop [city name]", etc.

Right. If I want to add that location based context it is up to me as a user, and not automatically assumed.

Then why does Google constantly think I'm a city over? If their killer app is location search they suck at it.