10 neighbourhoods·45 cafés·last updated April 2026
Quarter Horse roasts on-site in the Jewellery Quarter, Ithaka sources every bean at origin, and Java Roastery runs barista training alongside production. The scene stretches south through Moseley, Kings Heath, and Stirchley.
The best of Birmingham4 picks
01
Digbeth
“Birmingham's most exacting cup, from a roaster who treats origin sourcing as the whole job.”
Dale sources every bean himself at origin and roasts on-site. The most serious cup in Birmingham, and it's on Gibb Street.
02
Jewellery Quarter
Birmingham's roastery that trains you to actually taste the coffee.
03
Moseley
The Moseley coffee house of a roast-to-order Birmingham roastery, with flat whites that live up to the name.
04
City Centre
A chain with a Nottingham roastery and a named blend most competitors ignore.
10 neighbourhoods
Faculty Coffee is the anchor: Square Mile beans, filter on the menu, bags to take home. O'ffee's Middle Eastern programme is the city centre's most interesting detour.
The roastery name is accurate, which on Colmore Row is rarer than it sounds.
A Birmingham brunch spot where the espresso tastes like fudge and the filter tastes like raspberry.
Traceable Colombian lots on bar and staff who name the producer before you've asked.
Roasts in Nottingham, trains baristas on Colmore Row, sells the beans that prove it.
Quarter Horse and Java Roastery both roast on-site here; add ONE1's precision filter work and the Jewellery Quarter has genuine specialty depth.
The roastery where the question is which bean, not which size.
The Jewellery Quarter specialty cafe where the sourcing is doing the converting.
The JQ brunch spot where the espresso earns the second visit.
The sourcing extends to the pastries and the tea, not just the espresso.
200 Degrees runs a proper Nottingham-roast shop here. Oak Ca Phe's Vietnamese programme is worth the trip: caphe sua da, salted iced coffee, pandan latte.
Dale at Ithaka Coffee sources every bean at origin and roasts on-site; the rest of Digbeth's small scene is solid without being serious.
Quarter Horse roasts on-site in the Jewellery Quarter, Ithaka sources every bean at origin, and Java Roastery runs barista training alongside production. The scene stretches south through Moseley, Kings Heath, and Stirchley.
Last updated April 2026
Digbeth
Dale sources every bean himself at origin and roasts on-site. The most serious cup in Birmingham, and it's on Gibb Street.
Jewellery Quarter
Quarter Horse roasts its own beans in the Jewellery Quarter and sells single origins with full tasting notes down to the process. Book onto the training lab and you'll tour the roastery, then dial in the espresso yourself.
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