Sixty shops, a warm cup, and a honest map.
Independent speciality coffee across Central, North, East, South and West London — addresses, hours, and a research note for each. Not a tasting score. We have not visited yet.
Illustrative image — not a photograph of a particular shop.
This is a research guide. Addresses, hours, prices and specs are taken from official sites and other named, dated sources, checked on 12 November 2026. Where we could not verify a fact, the field is marked “to check” or left out. We have not visited these shops, and we do not describe the taste of a cup. The Top 10 is a set of well-known starting points, not a ranking from our own tasting. Some photographs are openly licensed pictures of that shop, credited under the image; others, including this hero, are original illustrative images, and are labelled as such. Live Google reviews and photographs are ready in the code but stay off until a Maps API key is set. How we work.
Find a cup near where you already are.
A stylised map of London, split into five regions. Counts are for shops in this edition, not every cafe in the city. Pins and numbers live on each region page and on each shop spread.
Colours are our own region code: Central magenta-rose, North blue, East green, South amber, West violet. The magenta numbered markers on shop pages are map pins, not ratings.
Top 10
Ten well-known starting points, not a tasting ranking — we have not visited yet. They are spread across the city, and each has a full shop page with hours and sources.
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Monmouth Coffee, The Borough
2 Park Street, SE1 9AB · South
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Prufrock Coffee, Leather Lane
23–25 Leather Lane, EC1N 7TE · Central
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Algerian Coffee Stores, Soho
52 Old Compton Street, W1D 4PB · Central
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Kaffeine, Fitzrovia
66 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7QJ · Central
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Caravan, King's Cross
1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA · North
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Climpson & Sons, Broadway Market
67 Broadway Market, E8 4PH · East
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Ozone Coffee, Shoreditch
11 Leonard Street, EC2A 4AQ · East
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Workshop Cafe & Academy, Belgravia
22 Eccleston Street, SW1W 9LT · West
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The Fields Beneath
52A Prince of Wales Road, NW5 3LN · North
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15grams, Greenwich
28 Greenwich Church Street, SE10 9BJ · South
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What a bag actually costs.
A dated table of list prices from ten roasters, with bag size and a calculated price per 250g. No tasting scores, and no advice to buy.
Illustrative image — not a photograph of this shop.
A note when something changes
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