Roaster
Covent Garden
Monmouth Coffee
Covent Garden
A coffee-focused stop on Monmouth Street, with beans to take home and a choice of coffees to sample.
WC2H 9EUGet to know it
LONDON, ONE CUP AT A TIME
Independent
coffee shops.
London.
The neighbourhood favourites, the little roasteries, the places with a story. Find your next independent coffee shop in London.
Find your next cup32 places. All their own thing.
Researched from official sources. Free to explore.
A LONDON ORIGINALMonmouth Coffee Covent Garden
Your next regular is out there.
THE COFFEE DIRECTORY
A few places to start.
Different neighbourhoods. Different personalities. A good reason to take a detour.
Coffee & food
Clerkenwell
Prufrock Coffee
Leather Lane
Coffee, food made from scratch and a coffee shop that has called Leather Lane home since 2011.
EC1N 7TEGet to know it
Coffee & food
De Beauvoir
Batch Baby
De Beauvoir
A neighbourhood coffee shop in the Rose Lipman Building, with a soft spot for its 1970s setting.
N1 5SFGet to know it
Coffee & food
Fulham
Carbon Kopi
Fulham
A light-filled neighbourhood corner for coffee, fresh bakes and toasties on Hazlebury Road.
SW6 2NAGet to know it
Bakery
Islington
Pophams
Islington
A Prebend Street bakery for the days when a coffee break is really about the pastry, too.
N1 8PFGet to know it
Roaster
Peckham
Old Spike
Peckham Rye
A Peckham coffee stop from a London roaster whose employment programme supports people affected by homelessness.
SE15 4JRGet to know it
TAKE THE SCENIC ROUTE
Find your corner of London.
Start close to home. Or make a morning of somewhere new.
01 / LONDON8 shops
East London
Market mornings & roastery counters02 / LONDON9 shopsCentral London
Espresso bars off the busy streets03 / LONDON3 shopsNorth London
Neighbourhood rituals, north of the rush04 / LONDON3 shopsWest London
Corner cafés & coffee to take home05 / LONDON7 shopsSouth East London
Market cups & coffee with a purpose06 / LONDON2 shopsSouth West London
A proper pause around the coffee table
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A LITTLE COFFEE CURIOSITY
Notes from the coffee table.
KNOW YOUR COFFEE
From the roaster, to your cup.
Where to try London’s independent coffee roasters.
Find your roaster
THE PERFECT PAIRING
Something flaky on the side.
A short guide to coffee and pastries around London.
Plan a pastry stopSLOW DOWN A LITTLE
A coffee, then a wander.
Three neighbourhood ideas for a coffee-led London morning.
Take a little detourA NOTE ON THIS GUIDE
Good places. No paid rankings.
We research each listing using official websites. These are places to discover, not reviews based on visits. We include single cafés and small independent groups, and tell you where every detail came from.
How we put the guide together