The roasters writing the coffee scene in London: who they are, where they source from and where to drink it.
The roasters writing the coffee scene in London. who they are, where they source from, and where to drink the result.
Anette Moldvaer and James Hoffmann's Square Mile coffee roastery near Wenlock Basin in north London, founded 2008, the city's most-cited specialty roaster.
BeansEthiopia, Colombia, Brazil, Kenya, Costa Rica
BrewsEspresso, Filter, Whole bean retail, Subscription
TipNo public cafe; the beans go to subscribers and the city's top espresso bars (Workshop, Prufrock, Kaffeine).
Assembly Coffee's specialty roastery inside a 19th-century Brixton fire station in south London, founded 2015, runs a Loring roaster, sensory lab.
BeansEthiopia, Colombia, Kenya, Costa Rica
BrewsEspresso, Filter, Whole bean retail, Subscription
TipThe Door Coffee Bar runs weekdays only. Cuppings at the roastery book through their site; subscription ships UK addresses weekly.
Anita Le Roy's pioneer London coffee roaster, founded in 1978 on Monmouth Street in Covent Garden, runs two retail-and-cafe sites and is one.
BeansEthiopia, Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil
BrewsEspresso, Filter, Whole bean retail
TipThe Covent Garden original on 27 Monmouth Street has the standing counter; Borough has more outdoor seats.
Daniel Climpson's roaster on Broadway Market in Hackney London, founded 2002, runs a Saturday-market cafe at 67 Broadway and a roastery on Helmsley Place.
BeansBrazil, Ethiopia, Colombia, El Salvador
BrewsEspresso, Filter, Whole bean retail, Subscription
TipThe Saturday market is the canonical visit. Climpson's Arch on Helmsley Place is a Friday-Saturday-only railway-arch bar.
Michael Allpress's New Zealand-founded specialty roaster, opened in London on Redchurch Street in Shoreditch in 2010, runs cafes across east London.
BeansBrazil, Honduras, Ethiopia, Colombia
BrewsEspresso, Filter, Whole bean retail
TipThe Redchurch Street original sits next to Brat. Their Dalston site has the bigger laptop seating area.
Tom Sobey's Cornwall-founded Origin Coffee, roasting in Helston since 2004, opened the Charlotte Road London cafe in 2015 and runs a third-wave filter bar.
BeansEthiopia, Colombia, Brazil, Kenya, Costa Rica
BrewsEspresso, Filter, Whole bean retail, Subscription
TipThe retail wholesale relationship runs to many of Soho and Clerkenwell's morning coffee bars.
Kurt Stewart's Stockwell-based London coffee roaster, founded 2010, runs a serious B-corp-certified specialty roastery in south London and supplies cafes.
BeansBrazil, Ethiopia, Honduras, Peru
BrewsEspresso, Filter, Whole bean retail, Subscription
TipNo public cafe; subscribe online or buy beans through stockists. The Mons Sandwiches deli on Stockwell Road is the nearest cafe pouring their beans.
Stephen Leighton's Has Bean Coffee, founded 2002 in Staffordshire and a foundational supplier to the early London specialty scene, runs a subscription.
BeansEthiopia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama
BrewsEspresso, Filter, Whole bean retail, Subscription
TipHas Bean's beans feature at Tap, Prufrock and other London cafes. Subscribe through their site for weekly single-origin filter beans.
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