A free website, not an app, and not a cafe

Goose and Grind is a free guide to speciality coffee shops in London, and a dated look at what coffee beans cost. It is for tourists and for people who already live here. The idea is simple: help you find a useful cup near where you already are, tell you if it is closed on Sunday, and show a straight price for a bag of beans, with the date we checked it.

It is not a review magazine, not a booking app, and not a shop of our own. Merchandise, if it ever happens, will come later, after the guide is genuinely useful. We do not speak for the cafes or roasters we list, and we are not connected with any other business that uses the word Grind.

The goose on the logo is our mark. The writing on this site is a research guide. When someone from the project has actually visited a shop, that visit will be dated and clearly labelled. Until then, we will not pretend.

Shop pages are laid out like a printed London coffee guidebook: a bold name, the address, a coloured region tab, two photographs, a numbered pin, hours, prices, specs and a short editorial paragraph. The photographs that are not a real picture of that shop are original illustrative images, and are labelled as such.

Read how we work for the rules on photos, reviews and prices, or start with the shops and the beans.