Best Coffee in London
Embracing the UK Coffee Week, we thought it would be best to give you our top 3 London locations for coffee!
London’s coffee community of artisan roasters and independent shops is ever-growing – and often competitive. But where can you find the very best coffee in the city? We’ve got you covered!
What is UK Coffee Week?
UK Coffee Week is a nationwide fundraising campaign for Project Waterfall, bringing clean drinking water to coffee growing communities. Thousands of coffee shops, roasters and individuals across the country take part every year.
Project Waterfall is a charity initiative bringing clean drinking water, sanitation and education to coffee growing communities.
If you’d like to participate in UK Coffee Week, see more here.
Monmouth Coffee, Seven Dials
The original Monmouth Coffee, on pretty Monmouth Street in Seven Dials, opened way back in 1978, long before artisan coffee meant anything to most people. Founder Anita Leroy is one half of a Covent Garden power couple with Neal’s Yard Dairy founder Randolph Hodgson. In 2007, they opened a second – and now their best-known – branch at Borough Market (you’ll have seen the queues winding around the corner on Saturday mornings).
Address: Monmouth Coffee Company, 27 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9EU
Website: monmouthcoffee.co.uk
Kaffeine, Fitzrovia
A buzzing slip of a place with red brick walls, box-crate tables and smart black accents, Kaffeine’s countertops heave with piles of artisan sandwiches, inventive salads, and freshly baked sweet treats. The coffee is strong, smooth and consistently great. It’s such a popular spot that you may have to share a table with a stranger, but don’t be put off – the crowd here is always friendly!
Address: Kaffeine, 66 Great Titchfield Street, Fitzrovia, London W1W 7QJ; Kaffeine, 15 Eastcastle Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T 3AY
Website: kaffeine.co.uk
%Arabica, Covent Garden
This high-end Japanese speciality coffee shop has made its way over to the UK, simultaneously opening up in Covent Garden and East London’s Broadway Market.
There’s a stylish and clean feel here, with exposed brick, bone-white counters and the signature coffee machine, a customised Slayer Espresso, as the star of the show.
The coffee is as serious as the aesthetic is cool. %Arabica roasts its own beans (on-site in the case of the flagship on Broadway Market) and founder Kenneth Shoji has visited each supplier to personally select the beans for the space!
Address: %Arabica London, 5 King Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8HN
Website: arabica.coffee
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