UK Speciality Coffee Directory
Speciality coffee, roasted across the UK
Discover the UK's finest speciality coffee roasters — from London roasteries to Cornish coastlines and Scottish shores. Explore verified producer profiles, seasonal beans and tasting notes, all sourced directly from each roastery.
What is speciality coffee?
Speciality coffee is coffee graded 80 points or above on a 100-point scale by certified Q Graders. It celebrates traceability, careful processing, ethical sourcing, and the craft of roasting to bring out each origin's unique flavour. In the UK, a growing community of independent roasteries is making exceptional speciality coffee easier to find than ever.
- Traceable to farm, cooperative, or washing station
- Roasted in small batches to highlight origin character
- Sourced seasonally, often through direct trade
Featured producers
Roasteries worth exploring
Square Mile Coffee Roasters
Square Mile Coffee Roasters roasts in Walthamstow, east London. Their About page describes a purpose of sourcing outstanding, seasonal coffee, roasting it to bring out its best, and delivering a coffee experience that delights, alongside wholesale supply to coffee shops, restaurants, offices and workspaces.
Origin Coffee
Origin Coffee roasts at its Cornwall HQ and runs coffee shops including sites in Porthleven, Bristol, London and Edinburgh. Their Story page describes a team of coffee professionals, a world-class coffee programme, seven coffee shops and an ever-evolving product range.
Climpson & Sons
Climpson & Sons began as a market stall on Broadway Market in East London and now roasts at its own East London roastery. Their site describes growing into one of the UK's leading independent specialty coffee businesses, with coffees served in hundreds of cafés, restaurants, bakeries, bars, hotels and offices.
Redemption Roasters
Redemption Roasters describes its mission as reducing reoffending through coffee, training prison leavers and people at risk of offending for secure, meaningful employment. It has roasted at HMYOI Aylesbury and HMP The Mount, and from December 2025 roasts its social impact coffee at a new Wembley roastery, with an HQ in King's Cross.
Buy it, then brew it
From choosing a bag to the cup in your hand
Good beans are only half the job. Pick a coffee whose flavours you actually enjoy, grind it fresh, and follow a method that suits it — these pages take you the whole way.
Best UK coffee beans
A verified shortlist of coffees currently sold by UK roasteries, with origin, process and tasting notes taken from their own shop pages.
See the shortlistBest decaf coffee beans UK
Sugar-cane, Swiss Water and natural-process decafs from UK roasteries, with method, origin and tasting notes from each roaster's own shop.
See decaf shortlistBest coffee beans for espresso
Blends and single origins UK roasters label for espresso, with origins and tasting notes taken straight from each roastery's shop.
See espresso shortlistBrewing guides
Step-by-step guides to filter machines, cafetières, siphons, grinders, pour-overs and drippers, illustrated with real photographs.
Read the guidesCoffee gear we recommend
The grinders, scales, kettles and brewers worth owning at home, from a first hand grinder to a long-term upgrade.
Browse the gear