The 34 Best Coffee Roasters in London 2024
Without doubt London is the coffee capital of the UK.
The city has a huge amount of coffee roasters from well established multi venue establishments through to a couple of brothers roasting out of a storage unit in the dodgy end of town.
I have had the absolute pleasure of enjoying some of the best coffees in London over the past few years and we have featured a fair few London coffee roasters in our coffee club box (checkout the list below).
I have also been lucky enough to visit many of Londons best coffee roasters and get to know some of the people behind the magic.
… Which to be fair made creating the list quite difficult as they’re all so bloody lovely.
Anyway, here’s my updated list and some of mine - and the team at Batch’s favourite coffee roasters from London.
Alongside a map of all of them first.
Top 5 Coffee Roasters London
Assembly Coffee Roasters
Volcano Coffee Roasters
Carnival Coffee
Square Mile Coffee Roasters
Mission Coffee Works
Recent Features of London Coffee Roasters in Batch Coffee Club
The Best Coffee Roasters in London
Assembly Coffee Roasters
Assembly are the quality and customer focused coffee roaster based in Brixton, London.
We have featured Assembly a number of times in our coffee subscription boxes and they’re always a fans favourite.
They are one of the few coffee roasters in the UK that are pushing the boundaries of each aspect of their business.
The Assembly roastery is located in a 19th-century fire station in the heart of London. Equipped with a Loring roaster, a state-of-the-art coffee sensory lab, and several event spaces for cuppings, it demonstrates their serious commitment to specialty coffee.
Launched in 2015 during the annual London Coffee Festival, Assembly now showcases their coffee on a global scale.
Their sister company, Volcano Coffee Works, laid the foundation for what Assembly Coffee is today. This allowed the founders to deeply understand cafe owners' needs and create a unique concept that stood out from existing offerings.
One of the most striking features of their retail coffee is the packaging. The bags are made from a distinctive organic rice paper material, and the stunning artwork represents the flavors identified by the development team.
I love the concept of using imagery and color to represent taste. It provides an idea of the coffee profile without suggesting specific flavors, highlighting the unique perceptions each of us has when it comes to taste.
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Secondly, the coffee is of the highest standard. There is no compromise in quality and the meticulous quality control that these guys have as a standard is why they are dropping some of the best speciality coffees on the market today.
The biggest difference in how Assembly operates for me is their collaborations. When talking to their business manager, Ed, he explained how the team is in constant conversation with their customers, whether it’s a retail customer purchasing a 250g bag every other week or a wholesale cafe that orders dozens of kilos per week.
This conversation enables Assembly not only to build strong long lasting relationships and understand their customers wants and needs but also keeps their finger on the pulse of the specialty coffee industry.
Read our full Review of Assembly
2. Volcano Coffee Works
Kurt Stewart is the man behind Volcano coffee works which was founded in 2010.
Kurt grew up in coffee-mad New Zealand and created Volcano to bring the great tasting coffee he had grown up with to the UK.
He did this while supporting the livelihoods of the communities who grow and produce it.
Volcano started life as a coffee cart that graced the streets of West Norwood but has now grown to a team of 30 passionate coffee people that operate out of their state of the art coffee roastery in Brixton.
The first batch of the day is always roasted by Kurt who is still the beating heart of the coffee business.
Volcano consistently produce some of the best coffee available in the UK at such a high volume. They have a range of coffees that are great for the office or home.
Volcano Coffee Works believes in complete Supply Transparency, which means they insist on knowing where their coffee is from and visiting many of their farmers annually.
This level of transparency is important, it enables Volcano to ensure they only buy coffee from farmers, co-ops and importers who they are confident believe in the same ethical principles they do.
Read our full Review of Volcano
3. Carnival
Carnival Coffee Roasters, London are an eco-friendly, speciality coffee roaster based in the heart of Penge, South East London.
You may recognise them by their vibrant packaging reflecting their Latin American flair courtesy of local artist Rosie Lovelock.
Carnival are an inspirational team and quickly becoming one of the best roasterys in London.
Their focus on providing an eco-friendly product is a great example for future roasters to follow. Their ethics transcend all the way from Colombia where they support sustainable coffee projects all the way to South East London where they offer local delivery on a bicycle.
Their story started in Medellin, Colombia where they grow and produce coffee on their family farm.
The farm has been in the family for generations ever since Juan’s Grandfather won a mountainside on the outskirts of the city in a very lucky game of cards. Even more luckily the conditions were ideal for growing coffee.
Fast forward to today and Juan's Parents, Aunties and Uncles still live and work on the mountainside.
The coffee farm is surrounded by orange groves and banana plants with a waterfall separating the boundaries with neighbouring farms. Traditional drying methods are still used.
The coffee that Carnival use is hand-roasted in small batched in their garden workshop in Penge. They are passionate about amazing coffee and spend their days, roasting, testing, tasting and repeating to ensure you get the best possible tasting beans. Always proving a hit in our coffee subscription box they are one of the new London roasters on the block but certainly one to watch out for.
Read our full Review of Carnival
4. Square Mile
A multi-award-winning coffee roasting company, Square Mile Coffee Roaster London was founded in 2008 by speciality coffee pioneers, Anette Moldvaer and James Hoffmann.
Synonymous with London coffee culture, they’ve grown to be a dynamic team of 22 talented coffee professionals, all sharing a wealth of experience and passion for what they do.
Focused on wholesale, they choose to work with, train and support like-minded businesses wishing to serve their mindfully sourced and skilfully roasted coffee to the best of their ability.
Square Mile are on a mission to continually evolve, measuring their impact and looking for better solutions to their everyday tasks. By working together and supporting their partners across the supply chain, they strengthen their relationships, build expertise and contribute towards placing London speciality coffee & culture on the map.
They pride themselves on the exceptional quality coffee they source, buy, import, roast, and deliver internationally.
They offer a large amount of blends including a seasonal filter blend and an ever-changing array of single origin coffees. The subscription facility that they offer.
5. Mission Coffee Works
Mission Coffee Works was born from a desire to get the best beans to the best people and make sure they know what to do with them.
Mission Coffee Works was born from a desire to get the best beans to the best people and make sure they know what to do with them.
Originally starting as a street van serving coffee to the good people of Peckham from 2012, Mission made the permanent move to the London coffee roaster and decided to focus solely on the beans.
They buy them green, roast them brown, get them to you and make sure you know what to do with them.
The beans they deliver to cafes, hotels, restaurants, homes, and offices up and down the country (and all over Europe) are not just from Mission Coffee Works.
Without the farmers, pickers, mill workers, green buyers, and importers they wouldn’t be able to roast the specialty coffee they love. They work with fair and transparent pricing, sustainable relationships, and environmentally sound practices. They always pay careful attention to every step of the supply chain, so everyone gains from the coffee you’re drinking.
Their ever changing menu of single origin coffee and seasonal blends plus one of the best coffee subscriptions in the UK means you’ll keep going back for more.
Read our full Review of Mission Coffee Works
6. Dark Arts Coffee Roasters
Dark Arts Coffee is a coffee roaster started by friends in East London with twisted visions of using alchemy to combine fire, water and magic beans into a divine elixir.
They had visions of funnelling the profits into a cult based on their love of the occult, bikes and all things unholy. However, none of that worked out and now they’re sick to death of bullies calling Dark Arts - ‘that harry potter coffee’. And roastery isn’t even a word.
As a result, instead, they’ve had to focus on importing the best beans from all over the world and roasting them until they taste good as a brown drink.
Awesome ‘roastery’ with an awesome attitude, hilarious coffee names alongside some genius branding, their coffee is bloody great too. Check out the seasonal coffee they have on offer in many outlets throughout the UK or online.
They offer a couple of coffee subscription options which you can opt for weekly, fortnightly or monthly deliveries.
Not only one of the best coffee roasters in London but also a brand that offers something different both inside and outside the bag
7. Caravan Coffee Roasters
Caravan Coffee Roasters is based at Lamb Works, an 8,500 square foot redeveloped Victorian warehouse on North Road in Islington, London.
The site houses the eco-friendly Loring Smart Roaster, quality control lab, coffee school, bakery, drinks lab, events space and head offices for both the restaurant and coffee roastery businesses.
Caravan Coffee Roasters believe in challenging and raising the standards and expectations of the UK speciality coffee scene. Their aim is to ultimately provide the consumer with a superior product in their coffee cup.
They source the world’s best beans and roast them to specific and consistent profiles so to ensure each coffee’s individual characteristics are fully nurtured. Caravan are well versed in speciality coffee and are one of the most popular London roasters they always have a couple of great full bodied choices for those with home espresso machines.
Read About Caravan Coffee Roasters
8. Elsewhere Coffee
Elsewhere Coffee Roasters began their coffee journey as the in-house roastery for Social Espresso, an events company that delivers high-end coffee to conferences and exhibitions across Europe.
After proving popular they decided to dive into the retail coffee scene and make the coffee available to everyone.
They roast their coffee in Deptford, London and supply coffee beans to offices, shops and restaurants all over the UK.
Their unique and eye-catching branding is a symbol of the feeling you get when drinking coffee.
A leap into the world of speciality coffee or an escape into another world whilst you sip some of their incredible coffee.
The coffee that these guys roast is top draw. Their menu at the time of writing this post consisted of coffee from Uganda, East Timor, El Salvador, and Honduras - 4 origins that are fairly rare in the UK coffee scene.
Read the full Review of Elsewhere Coffee Roasters.
9. Grind
Grind was founded in 2011 when David Abrahamovitch took over his father’s Shoreditch mobile phone shop and decided to turn it into a café-bar.
In the decade since, Grind has grown to become a cult east London coffee brand.
It now comprises of eleven locations, including espresso bars, cocktail bars, restaurants, an international-grade recording studio, and a state-of-the-art coffee roastery.
Grind are still based in Shoreditch and now employ around two-hundred people with most of their investors over the years becoming Grind regulars and friends across the world.
Grind at Home lets you bring Grind coffee home - all the way from their state-of-the-art London coffee roaster and now serving in the UK’s very first completely compostable coffee pods.
Read more in our profile of Grind Coffee.
10. Old Spike
Old Spike was set up in early 2015 in a small cafe in Peckham.
Their vision was simple; to use coffee as a vehicle for change and offer their customers something more than just delicious tasting coffee.
Their mission is to train and employee homeless people across our business. Whether they work in their cafe, assist in their coffee production or deliver their coffee to all their wholesale customers - every bag of coffee you buy goes some way to ending homelessness here in the UK.
Their passion for coffee and their inspiring mission to give back to the community is why these guys are one of the best London roasters. They not only source coffee that promotes sustainability and ethical practices at source but also contributes to problems that are faced in the coffee consuming country.
Read our full Review of Old Spike
11. Balance
Balance coffee are a new brand roasting delicious coffee in London.
Founder James has worked in the coffee industry for 8 years and wanted to create a coffee brand with a mission to inspire people to drink better quality coffee at home. The coffee that they roast is focused on selling to people who are looking at becoming more of a home barista and create that coffee shop experience in their own home.
With really clean and slick branding their eye-catching watercolour design is a clue about the style of coffee that they offer. They are not afraid to showcase an unusual origin and may provide that unique bag of speciality coffee you are looking for.
As is now demanded as the norm in the speciality coffee world, Balance wants to ensure they create a positive impact by supporting the livelihoods of coffee farmers at origin which in turn, helps create a sustainable supply of coffee for the future. All of their green beans are ethically sourced from some of the highest quality coffee farmers from around the world.
Read the full Review of Balance Coffee Roasters
12. Terrone
Since 2012, Terrone has done more than follow the crowd. Tired of over-roasted, poorly-sourced Italian coffee, they decided to change the game.
Today Terrone are a UK coffee roaster based in Tottenham. Sourcing the most delicious, fresh crops, they roast a carefully curated selection of the world's best speciality coffees.
Italian coffee was always like Italian pizza in that it was seen as the bench of quality throughout the industry. In recent years, however, Italian coffee has generally taken a back seat in the third wave of coffee, Terrone are here to change that.
All of their coffee is roasted on a state-of-the-art Giesen W15. With a maximum capacity of just 15kg, the utmost care and craft are put into every batch. People say that Italian coffee can never be considered a speciality and is reserved for the rich velvety style coffee one would expect when brewed with a stovetop espresso maker. Terrone disagrees. Combining the most advanced roasting techniques with the tradition and ritual that first emerged in coffee bars of Italy, their coffee is distinct and delicious. They roast light. Unapologetically so; we believe that the best roasting practices preserve the unique flavours, aromas and textures of a coffee. We want you to taste the coffee, not the roast.
Terrone roast many coffees and have an array of various origins and processing methods at any one time, they also sell coffee in pods as well as a coffee subscription for pods and fresh coffee.
Read our full Review of Terrone Coffee
13. Tate Coffee Roasters
The Roastery at Tate is a diverse and innovative Specialty coffee space.
Situated within the historic grounds of Tate Britain.
Home to Tate’s Gender Equality Coffee Project (GEP) and Slot Roasting Collective the WWII Nissen Hut Roastery is a vibrant community-led non-profit business that helps fund Tate Gallery and champion coffee producers and professionals of all genders throughout the coffee value chain.
The small team of specialists focuses on sourcing and roasting the highest quality and sustainable specialty coffees grown by inspirational female and male producers for Tate coffee sites, whilst hosting a diverse range of slot roasters, and developing a bespoke range of contract and white label coffee services for a variety of coffee businesses and professionals.
Read the review of Tate Coffee Roasters.
14. Mont 58
Mont58 coffee roasters are based in South-East London.
The husband and wife team Shai and Maya have grown their dreamn into an award winning craft roastery.
Their passion oozes into the great coffee that these guys produce, with a sustainable approach.
All of the coffee is hand-roasted high quality Arabica beans from all over the world as well as a couple of their own unique blends.
Mont58 HQ is in the roastery cabin in the back of Shai and Mayas garden.
Read the full Mont58 Review
15. Deluxe Coffee Works
Coffee Deluxe is the British cousin of the beloved South African coffee roastery
Their approach to coffee is simple and don’t want to over complicate the whole process. Their menu is small but quality and each blend and roast has been tweaked and perfected.
Their journey into speciality coffee in the UK has only recently started but with their success in South Africa and the 13 years experience, they’re certainly here to stay.
16. Beantale Coffee Roasters
Beantale coffee roasters commenced its operations in 2018, situated in the bustling locale of South-East London. Their objective and vision centred around delivering exquisite specialty coffee to London's busy populace.
At Beantale, each coffee bean embodies a unique chapter in an unfolding story. Every bean carries an individual tale of flavour, aroma, and origin.
Instead of merely considering coffee as another beverage, Beantale perceives it as a cultural narrative and a vehicle for storytelling.
With each sip, the company guides its customers through a labyrinth of nuanced and complex flavours inherent in their meticulously roasted coffees.
The aim is to unlock a sensory voyage for the palate, revealing new flavours and experiences that create a lasting impact.
Read more about Beantale coffee roasters
17. Campbell and Syme
When Campbell and Syme founded their company in October 2012, they possessed limited knowledge about the intricacies of coffee roasting.
However, they were aware that coffee could offer an exceptionally sweet and juicy flavour when its unique characteristics were properly emphasised.
They also believed that a welcoming demeanor could attract customers, inviting them to both enjoy their coffee and feel valued.
To them, specialty coffee was not about exclusivity; rather, it served as a platform for shared experiences and meaningful dialogues.
Read More about Campbell and Syme
18. Roasting Shed
Roasting Shed are located across 2 locations in London.
The name is a testament to how they started roasting coffee in their garden shed.
The team understand that they are only as good as the raw coffees that they select to work with.
It is imperative the supply chain is fully transparent so that it can be traced back to its origin.
The personal relationships that Roasting Shed have with all their suppliers is very important to them.
Their importers, growers and co-operatives are all committed to producing excellent coffees but also to look after their workforce and ensure the environment is respected and sustained.
Read more about Roasting Shed
19. Rascal Coffee Roasters
Born in Guatemala, roasted in London.
Rascal Coffee is a single-origin coffee roastery that showcase some of the finest beans from one of the finest origins.
Chief Rascal, Alex is the brains and the banter behind this fun and unique coffee brand.
Over 150 years ago, her great-great-GREAT grandfather, Manuel Matheu Ariza, started one of the first ever coffee farms in all of Guatemala and sold his first harvest nowhere else but London.
He was known as the "grandfather of coffee" in Guatemala or, as I like to call him, the Original Rascal.
Read more about Rascal Coffee Roasters
20. Colombian Coffee Co
The Colombian Coffee Co are based in London. They Roast out of their Arch in Flat Iron Square and showcase their wonderful coffee in the famous Borough market alongside the cafe inside the roastery.
These guys have a great story to run alongside the great coffee that they roast and sell, they’re also bloody lovely which always helps.
Colombia is home to a conflict that has lasted more than half a century but goes mostly unreported in the UK media.
As a result of the violence, many families and communities have to flee their homes and livelihoods at the drop of a hat and are forced to walk thousands of miles looking for somewhere they can settle.
The Colombian coffee Co was launched to make a positive difference to these communities and give back to their country by selling its finest product: single-origin coffee.
Read the full Review of The Colombian Coffee Company
21. Wood Street Coffee Roasters
Wood Street coffee roasters are a speciality coffee roaster in Walthamstow, London.
Their journey began in 2013 when the team started as a weekly pop up at Wood Street Market. Their popularity led to the opening four days a week in Walthamstow village. They lasted a mere 6 months before having to evolve again into a new space in the Blackhorse Workshop.
The founders Clare and Gareth move quick and are always looking to adapt and grow Wood Street coffee roasters.
With Walthamstow now firmly on the speciality coffee map they have positioned themselves nicely to take advantage of the modern-day coffee snob in search of high-quality caffeine.
Roasting their coffee on a Probat Wood Street coffee focus on quality and rotate fairly regularly. They source their coffee from all over the world and are passionate about pushing the boundaries of speciality coffee.
Read the full Review of Wood Street Coffee Roasters
22. Gentleman Baristas
Established in 2014 Gentlemen Baristas opened their first shop on Union St, London
Since then they have evolved into a multi-venue coffee roaster and firmly established themselves as one of the industry leaders of speciality coffee in London and the UK for that matter. Their endearing values and ethics are a slight twist on others in the game which makes them a popular spot for newcomers to the coffee scene as well as tourists
Their story starts over three hundred years ago when the London coffee house cemented itself as the quintessential melting pot of political, philosophical and creative debate. They were the stomping ground of the rich and famous but also the leading thinkers of the day.
A coffee house back then was a place for enlightenment, the coffee being the stimulus that sparked many discoveries. The coffee house was also a place that anybody could frequent - unlike the elitist clubs of the time. This furthered the range of backgrounds and points of view that ignited insightful conversation.
The Gentlemen baristas were determined to reinvent these age-old traditions of serving a superb cup of coffee in creative and inspiring surroundings and providing a meeting point and thinking space for London’s modern-day visionaries.
Read the full Review of Gentlemen Baristas
23. Union Coffee Roasters
Step into Union’s east London coffee roaster and you’ll find their roastmasters stood over their Probat and Loring roasters, tending to each small batch with care.
Their roastmasters are experts at bringing the best flavour out of each particular coffee.
They call themselves Union because they couldn’t make great coffee without their partners—the farmers that grow the exclusive gems they share with you. In return, Union pays them a fair price so they can invest in their farm, families and workers. They work with their partners long-term, towards constantly improving the quality of coffee and livelihoods.
Today, they work in 14 countries with over 42 producer partners to bring you an ever-changing selection of delicious coffees, from their house blends to single origins and exciting micro-lots.
You can find Union roasted coffee sold throughout UK coffee shops and independent retailers. They have a menu of ever-changing coffee available to buy online alongside their impressive coffee subscription club.
24. Lomond Coffee Roasters
Lomond Coffee are an all-female Coffee roasters in South London.
Created by sisters Linzi and Hayley, they only use the highest quality of coffee suppliers that not only purvey the very best green coffee but also demonstrate that they are committed to their social responsibility and pay the coffee farms very fair prices.
Without this sort of dedication at this end of the supply chain, coffee farmers have little incentive to administer the extra care and attention that high-quality coffee needs and we’d all be stuck with builders coffee.
The sisters’ passion for coffee stems from their experience in hospitality and life in Australia.
They roast their coffee in South London which is located in a Deptford Market Yard arch, this allows customers and coffee enthusiasts to really experience the special roasting process and enjoy their lovingly made, fresh brews.
Read the full Review of Lomond Coffee Roasters
25. Monmouth Coffee Roasters
Monmouth source and roast coffee from single farms, estates and cooperatives. When they taste a coffee that they like, they want to know where it comes from and who grows, picks and processes it.
The team at Monmouth Coffee Company travel extensively throughout the year, visiting the producers and cooperatives with whom they currently work and looking for interesting varietals of coffee and new farms from which to buy.
During these visits they talk to farmers and cooperative members, learning more about the coffee they grow and process and the challenges that they face. They then look to establish a relationship with the grower and exporter of that coffee. They believe that where such a relationship exists, quality, quantity and price requirements can be discussed in an open and equal way. They see this as sustainable, fair and equal trade.
Monmouth started roasting and retailing coffee in 1978. At the beginning they roasted in the basement of their shop on Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, using rather old‑fashioned, direct-flame machines, first a small UNO and then a 1930s Whitmee.
Almost thirty years later in 2007, having opened another shop in Borough Market and outgrown their basement in Covent Garden, they moved into three converted railway arches in Bermondsey. And now after ten years, they have moved their roasting site again, just a little further east to Spa Terminus in Bermondsey where they have converted five arches into a roasting, tasting and office space.
The coffee at Monmouth is world-famous and are rightfully one of the best coffee roasters in London as visiting any of their outlets is an experience. They offer ever-changing coffee throughout the years which you can buy online to next to their monthly coffee subscription that showcases different regions, methods and roasts.
26. Roasting Plant
Roasting plant is a series of coffee roasters in London with a unique twist to what is usually found in a roastery.
It all started back in a garage in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Where the founder Mike had an idea to manufacture a cup of coffee in-store from scratch. Mike, an industrial engineer by trade used his Grandmothers old vacuum cleaner to whip up a prototype of a machine that could automatically roast and transport coffee around a shop by means of air pressure in clear tubes.
The invention evolved from an old hoover into a network of coffee roasters and tubes that can be seen in each store.
Each cafe is equipped with a coffee roaster aptly named the javabot and can purchase coffee that is roasted in front of their eyes.
The Roasting Plant uses fluid bed coffee roasters which basically use high-velocity hot air to keep the green beans suspended. It’s amazing to watch these as you can see the coffee getting roasted in front of your eyes which isn’t possible in the majority of coffee roasters in the UK which use classic drum roasters.
Read the full Review of Roasting Plant
27. Ozone Coffee Roasters
Ozone coffee is a roaster based in London. They aim to build friendships with a huge variety of interesting & talented people who are embarking on new adventures every day.
From coffee lovers through to coffee farmers, they get to connect with these people & it is such a humbling & inspiring privilege.
Since starting out in 1998, they have invested in their product, people & community. Back then they were just three passionate people roasting out of a small shop in a provincial New Zealand surf town. Today, the only real difference is they have a lot more friends around the globe to learn things from & to share ideas with.
28. Workshop Coffee
Clean, sweet and fresh’ is the guiding principle behind every batch of every coffee Workshop produce.
Initially, this means sourcing coffee from growers who pay close attention to all stages of harvest and processing, but at their end they feel the responsibility lies with them to ensure that their roasting is always...
Careful - Workshop Coffee want to showcase the intrinsic quality of each of the coffees they serve, meaning that they don’t want to taste the influence of the roasting process itself. They’re looking for their roasting to be transparent; merely a process by which they unlock the coffee’s potential.
Consistent - They don't think that getting it right every now and then is good enough. They employ a combination of roasting intelligence software, strict quality control and a healthy dose of honesty to ensure every bag of coffee you receive is up to standard.
Considered - In order to ensure that their guides are in the right places, and that the coffee is still as fresh as the day they started serving it, a rigorous self-critical quality control programme is essential. Even when their coffee passes all in-roasting quality checks, they still evaluate every single batch by taste, on three separate occasions. Just to make sure.
Certainly worth trying some of their coffee. Their values and ethos is match their determination to produce world class coffee. Probably the most pioneering coffee roaster in London.
29. London Grade Coffee
London Grade Coffee’s journey started with the ambition of creating the Italian coffee that they loved here in London.
After researching the coffee in Italy they found that most of their beans come from India. So they set off Southern India to find a coffee estate that could supply them.
The coffee grown on the land in the lee of the Western Ghats was renowned for its sweetness and depth of flavour. The mountains prevent a heavy monsoon on the eastern side, and the thick forests shade the coffee plantations from the sun.
They found an organic estate owned by a passionate third generation coffee producer, whose coffee cherries ripen under a canopy of silver oak, rosewood, mahogany, cardamom and orange trees.
Read the full Review of London Grade Coffee
30. 80 Stone Coffee Roasters
80 Stone Coffee Roaster London are a duo who are more than a little obsessed with all things coffee-related.
Simone and Roberto’s story started in London, back in the glory days of 2006, while working together in a restaurant.
Roberto grew up in his family-run coffee shop in Verona, and has always been in hospitality. He also happens to be a whiz at financial management and with finely-tuned organisational skills.
Simone has spent over 17 years in the coffee industry, in everything from barista training, speciality coffee roasting and coffee exporting. He even upped sticks from his London life in 2010, after finishing in 6th place at the UK Barista Championship, and moved to Guatemala to learn more tricks of the trade.
While they have different backgrounds, they make a team as balanced as their tastiest blends.
31. Perky Blenders
Perky Blenders like to think of themselves as one big family.
That’s because family is in the very foundations of their business: they were family-formed back in 2015 by brothers Tom and Adam Cozens, along with Adam’s wife, Victoria. And even back then, operating as a humble little coffee cart outside St James’ Street station, they had the same aims as they do now: to be responsible, friendly and accessible to all.
A few years on, they now have four shops within the borough, and they supply their coffee to over 50 stores – including Wholefoods, the award-winning Eat17 Spar shops and big chill.
In the last few years, they’ve been featured in the Indy Best’s ‘Best Coffee Subscription Services,’ and have recently won two Time Out Awards as the ‘Best Coffee Place’ within three London Postcodes cementing their place as one of the best coffee roaster in London. And they’ve opened their second roastery, with a state-of-the-art 20kg Petrocini Specialty Roaster that they’re pretty proud of, and plenty more space to swing cats/coffee sacks.
If you don’t live nearby you can purchase Perky Blenders fantastic coffee online or sign up to one of their subscription services where you will be able to select one of their many flexible options.
32. Electric Coffee Roasters
The inspiration to create Electric Coffee Co. was to celebrate the industrial processes used across the whole coffee making process, from bean husking to brewing.
Opening their first cafe in Ealing, intent on bringing to the neighbourhood the very best coffee possible.
Sourcing, roasting and serving great coffee lead to more and since then, Electric coffee roaster London has evolved into a thriving destination for coffee, food and wine lovers alike.
They sell a range of coffees from around the world as well as a monthly coffee subscription service.
33. Alchemy Coffee Roasters
Alchemy is a proudly independent coffee roasters based in London, carefully hand roasting small batches of quality coffee.
Being a small company allows them the privilege of choosing which farmers they most want to partner with through their Direct Trade programme - ensuring both parties benefit.
Their farmers, roasters and baristas care for the coffee from seed to cup to preserve the inherent flavour of the coffee. They believe that what they do is a craft; a blend of art, skill, science and technology – bringing out the best in each bean.
Alchemy offer a wide range of coffees from their own blends through to some interesting single origins. They encapsulate all of their coffees in the selection of coffee subscriptions they have.
34. Hermanos Coffee Roasters
Hermanos (brothers) is a story about two Colombian brothers and their passion for coffee.
They moved to the UK back in the early 2000’s and had always wanted to bring the best Colombian coffee to the UK. That love of coffee and perseverance has finally led to the establishment of Hermanos Colombian coffee roaster London.
Today, Hermanos symbolises not just the brothers relationship, but also the brotherhood and connection that they have developed with the coffee farmers and the broader coffee industry in Colombia.
Read the full Review of Hermanos Colombian Coffee Roasters
Please let us know if you know of somewhere that would make the cut onto the best coffee roasters in London.
What is the oldest coffee roaster in London?
Farrer’s claim to be the oldest coffee roasters in London, they date back to 1819 and have been roasting coffee ever since. Farrers are also a tea merchants and have a whole range of products on their website
Where can I grind coffee beans in London?
If you have purchased beans instead of whole beans then don’t worry, there are plenty of places in London to grind your coffee beans. Checkout our list above that highlight the best coffee roasters in London and find your closest. Speciality coffee roasters will have a retail coffee grinder and normally will be happy to help you out.
