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Coffee roasterBrixton Tooting
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.
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Coffee roasterVarious
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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Coffee roasterHackney
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).
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Coffee roasterBrixton TootingPublic cafe
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.
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Coffee roasterBoroughPublic cafe
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.
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Coffee roasterHackneyPublic cafe
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.