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A curated selection of my favorite establishments for a caffeine fix in and around the City. This list has been created with an eye on design, quirky atmosphere and high quality coffee!
Enjoy!
Coffee Shop · Holborn and Covent Garden · 489 tips and reviews
Miriam Lahage: Best coffee roaster in London. Get beans that have been locally roasted in small batches. Try different beans that best suit your brew method and mood. You will never go back to the big boys.
Ross WS: Attendant occupies London’s most original location for a coffee bar: a late-nineteenth-century gents’ toilet. I'll Just have to resist making puns, it'll piss you off.
Units 1-3 Boxpark (2-4 Bethnal Green Rd), Shoreditch, Greater London
Coffee Shop · 46 tips and reviews
Ross WS: The cafe is designed to be a hub for the Guardian's tech writers, along with a space for start up-types and publishers to meet. This aside with Nude running the show good coffee is a guarantee!
Coffee Shop · Holborn and Covent Garden · 189 tips and reviews
Ross WS: Don't let the authoritative name mislead you, this café is ran by some of the friendliest baristas in town. Plenty of space and the view of Leather Lane is prime for people watching.
Ross WS: Coffee amidst spacious seating an eclectic setting of antiques and other curiosities. Serves food from an 17th century cookbook and you can buy the furniture, providing it's an antique.
Ross WS: Brilliant Starbucks concept store, also one of the few places to have a Clover coffee machine and suitable high grade beans to suit. An interesting place to people watch.
Ross WS: Brilliant little coffee shop, I'd love to capture some of the atmosphere of this place if I was opening my own. It's owners are kind, it's laid back and complimented by great food.
Ross WS: First opened in 1887 this place has seen a number of coffee fads come and go. It's a shop rather than a cafe, but they do offer great takeaway coffee. It's a good place to find some rare coffee beans!
Ross WS: One of New Zealand's most popular coffee brands, Allpress has decided to up the ante in London with a cafe and roastery tucked away here in Shorditch.
Ross WS: A place for particularly good scrambled eggs, supplied by a brilliant selection of southeast London bakeries and great coffee. It also features a lovely courtyard, offering a nice refuge from the city
5 Coulgate St (opp Brockley Common), London, Greater London
Coffee Shop · Brockley · 71 tips and reviews
Tim Ferguson: Excerpt from an excellent letter to it's customers: "Comparing a coffee from Costa (up to £2.65) to ours (currently £2.50) is like comparing burgers from McDonalds (99p) to those from Hawksmoor (£15)"