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Specialty coffee in London

20 cafés, 13 roasters, 7 neighbourhoods

Regent Street in Westminster with a red double-decker bus
Regent Street in Westminster with a red double-decker bus. Photo: Ashleigh Joy Photography / Unsplash

London has one of the older specialty scenes in Europe, and baristas from Australia and New Zealand shaped a lot of it. They also brought the flat white to the city. The cafés are spread out, so plan by area: in Fitzrovia and Marylebone several are close together.

The cafés, by neighbourhood

For 14 of the 20 cafés we know whose coffee they pour. The neighbourhoods with the most cafés: East London & the City, Fitzrovia & Marylebone and South of the river.

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The coffee is the café’s own roast.
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The café pours this roaster’s coffee. Cupd researched this, mostly on the café’s or the roaster’s own website. Once a café has claimed its profile, it can confirm or remove the roaster.
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Cupd does not know yet whose coffee the café pours. Cafés can add their roaster for free, and guests can report it in the app.

East London & the City

4 cafés

  1. Climpson & Sons

    Climpson & Sons began in 2002 as a market stall on Broadway Market, and this café has been part of the neighbourhood for over two decades. They roast their own coffee in East London.

    67 Broadway Market

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  2. Curators

    Curators Coffee Studio opened in March 2012 in a small spot on the corner of Cullum Street. As the name “studio” suggests, there isn't much room.

    9A Cullum Street

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  3. Nagare Coffee

    Nagare, pronounced “naga-reh”, means “flow” in Japanese. The beans come from roasters around the world, among them Market Lane from Melbourne, Weekenders from Kyoto and Obadiah from Edinburgh. The building dates back to the Napoleonic wars.

    40 Brushfield St

    Roaster not listed yet

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  4. Specialty Cafetiere

    389 Hackney Road

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Fitzrovia & Marylebone

4 cafés

  1. Attendant Coffee

    Attendant started here, in a restored Victorian public toilet. You can drink your flat white sitting practically inside an old porcelain urinal, and the coffee comes from Attendant's own roastery.

    Foley Street

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  2. Kaffeine

    Kaffeine was inspired by the coffee culture in Australia and New Zealand and has been open here since 2009. It's independently owned, and the food menu changes every week.

    66 Great Titchfield St

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  3. Special Guests Coffee

    Two-time UK Barista Champion Paul Ross set up Special Guests after leaving Watch House. It started with a webshop and partner cafés; this is its own flagship, with a menu of rare, limited-edition coffees.

    8 Aybrook Street

    Roaster not listed yet

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  4. The Barn

    The Barn is a Berlin roaster, around since 2010. Everything is roasted by hand on a tailor-made Probat drum roaster, and kept light to preserve the full identity of each lot.

    36 Charlotte Street

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South of the river

4 cafés

  1. Calico

    Calico has an extensive pour-over menu. You order at the front by the espresso machine, then sit at the pour-over bar on the far side. One wall holds shelves of magazines, ceramics and other works by Chinese artists.

    Unit C

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  2. Moonstruck

    Liam Clifford, previously at Rosslyn Coffee, opened Moonstruck in February 2024 with coffee from Woolwich roaster PLOT. The café also runs courses in latte art, espresso, filter coffee and sensory skills.

    153 South Lambeth Road

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  3. Saint Nine Coffee

    Saint Nine opened in August 2020 and in its first year poured roasters from across the UK, among them Round Hill, Assembly, Bailies and North Star.

    Lavington Street

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  4. Scenery Coffee

    Scenery was founded by a trio with three decades of coffee experience between them. They roast on a Loring S35 and buy coffee early, while it is still at origin, so what they offer changes with the harvests.

    171 Union Street

    Roaster not listed yet

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Victoria & Belgravia

3 cafés

  1. Formative Coffee

    Founder Ian Kissick left a job in corporate IT to train at Taylor St Baristas. In 2022 Formative started roasting its own coffee, at PLOT Roasting's facilities in South London, and in 2023 Ian became UK Barista Champion.

    4 Butler Place

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  2. Nostos

    Nostos is Greek for “homecoming”. The first café opened in Battersea in 2021, they roast their own coffee, and the signature drink is a freeze-distilled flat white.

    6 Orchard Place

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  3. Workshop Coffee (Belgravia)

    Workshop has been part of London's specialty coffee scene since 2011, and this café is its return to bricks and mortar in London. You get seasonal single origins, the house espresso Article and filter brewed to order, with the Workshop Training Academy downstairs.

    22 Eccleston Street

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Holborn & Clerkenwell

2 cafés

  1. Catalyst

    Catalyst opened in late 2016 as coffee shop and roaster in one. In 2020 everything was roasted on a 12 kg Diedrich in the basement, visible through glass panels in the floor at the front.

    48 Gray's Inn Road

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  2. Prufrock Coffee

    Prufrock was set up by three coffee enthusiasts and has been on Leather Lane since 2011. The coffee comes from Square Mile and featured roasters from Europe and beyond, such as Coffee Collective, Tim Wendelboe and La Cabra, and the menu keeps changing.

    Leather Lane

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West London

2 cafés

  1. Assembly Coffee

    Chepstow Road

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  2. Carbon Kopi

    Carbon Kopi began here in 2019, as a small coffee shop on a quiet corner in Barons Court, and Fulham followed in 2022. The house coffee is roasted by PLOT Roasting in Woolwich.

    11 Margravine Road

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Covent Garden

1 café

  1. Monmouth Coffee

    Monmouth started roasting and selling coffee at 27 Monmouth Street in 1978. The roasting was done in their basement until 2007, when it moved to larger premises in Bermondsey.

    Monmouth Street

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Roasters poured in London

13 roasters across the cafés above, by how many of them pour each one.

Roasters from London

  1. PLOT Roasting

    from London, in 2 cafés

    PLOT roasts every coffee on Loring roasters in Woolwich. Traceability comes first: for each coffee they can tell you who grew it, which farm it came from and when it was harvested.

  2. Square Mile

    from London, in 2 cafés

    Square Mile was founded in 2008 by Anette Moldvaer and James Hoffmann and is now led by Felicity Whitehead. They focus on seasonal coffee, sourced through long-standing relationships.

  3. Attendant Coffee Roasters

    from London, in 1 café

    Attendant roasts its own coffee and runs cafés in Fitzrovia, Clerkenwell, Mayfair, Bank and Victoria.

  4. Calico Coffee

    from London, in 1 café

  5. Catalyst

    from London, in 1 café

  6. Climpson & Sons

    from London, in 1 café

    Climpson & Sons has been around since 2002 and roasts in East London. Today its coffee goes to hundreds of cafés, restaurants, bakeries, bars, hotels and offices, and to homes across the country.

  7. Formative Coffee

    from London, in 1 café

  8. Monmouth Coffee Company

    from London, in 1 café

    Monmouth sources and roasts coffee from single farms, estates and cooperatives. Roasting, office and training now share five 1830s railway arches in Bermondsey.

  9. Nostos Coffee

    from London, in 1 café

  10. SEND Coffee

    from London, in 1 café

  11. Workshop Coffee

    from London, in 1 café

    Workshop has been around since 2011 and roasts for a style it calls clean, sweet and fresh. Many of its relationships with producers, exporters and co-operatives go back years.

From elsewhere

  1. Coffee Collective from Frederiksberg, in 1 café
  2. The Barn from Berlin, in 1 café

Questions

Which roasters can I find in London’s cafés?

This page lists 13 roasters, among them PLOT Roasting, Square Mile, Attendant Coffee Roasters, Calico Coffee and Catalyst. Next to each roaster it says whether the coffee is the café’s own roast and where Cupd got the information. The labels are explained above the list.

How up to date is this list?

It is a copy of the Cupd app as of November 11, 2026. Cafés and guests keep the app current, so open London in Cupd to see what has changed since.

A café is missing. How does it get on here?

In the app, search for it and tap “Missing a café? Tell us”. If it is your café, claim it for free on the page for cafés and enter your roaster. It shows up here with the next update.

Where the café texts come from, read on November 11, 2026

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