5 neighbourhoods·86 cafés·last updated May 2026
Lost Horizon and Radical Roasters both roast on-site in Stokes Croft, Origin Coffee's Victoria Street shop brings Cornish roasting to Old City, and Unica runs its own Southville roastery. Easton runs on ChaiGuy's Karak and Wogan-sourced beans at Baraka.
The best of Bristol4 picks
01
Southville
“Competition-circuit varietals on a Southville counter, roasted in-house.”
Sweven roast their own, sourcing competition-circuit lots and rare varietals that rarely make it into a cup you can walk in and order.
02
Old City
The Bristol roastery that publishes producer prices and stocks competition-grade lots.
03
Stokes Croft
Stokes Croft's on-site roastery with a brew bar where tasting notes run the order.
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Stokes Croft
The roastery where two-day-old coffee is already past the cut.
5 neighbourhoods
Four working roasteries roast on-site here: Wogan, Triple Co, Lost Horizon, and Twoday, each serving what they roast a few feet from the machine.
Stokes Croft's on-site roastery with a brew bar where tasting notes run the order.
The roastery in Stokes Croft, pouring its own single origins as pour-over.
Bristol's destination roastery, run by people who'll call you about the beans.
The Stokes Croft roastery that takes Vietnamese Robusta as seriously as its espresso.
Old City's harbourside streets hide two on-site roasters, Full Court Press and Spicer+Cole, plus Origin's Cornish beans on Victoria Street.
A Cornish roaster's Bristol outpost, built on single origins and baristas who know them.
The named-roaster stop in Old City, where the filter changes with the season.
The Old City room where the coffee list is chosen with more care than the brunch crowd notices.
A Colombian-founded Bristol counter sourcing direct from Finca las Cruces, Risaralda.
South of the harbour, Southville runs three working roasteries, Sweven, Boona Boona, and Unica, alongside the Tobacco Factory's sourdough queue.
An on-site Bedminster roastery the food reviews have been underselling.
Colonna Coffee across three brew formats, the single origin rotating through each.
Triple Co Roast on espresso, indie guests rotating through, in a room that hasn't fully noticed yet.
A Southville roastery with four named single origins that taste like where they grew.
The Barn and Workshop Coffee rotate through a Clifton neighbourhood that wouldn't otherwise see them.
Yallah beans and tasting notes in a room that came for the granola.
Hard Lines Coffee from Cardiff, running a sharper programme than the brunch crowd knows.
The One Coffee · 23 May
Bristol has a cluster of own-roastery cafes across Stokes Croft, Southville, and Clifton.
Richaro's Ramblings · 14 Aug
I am writing this from Ponta Delgada, where the coffee in front of me was roasted about four streets away. Normally that is the whole story.
Lost Horizon and Radical Roasters both roast on-site in Stokes Croft, Origin Coffee's Victoria Street shop brings Cornish roasting to Old City, and Unica runs its own Southville roastery. Easton runs on ChaiGuy's Karak and Wogan-sourced beans at Baraka.
Last updated May 2026
Old City
Full Court Press roasts its own and publishes what it pays producers. Two espressos and two filters rotate weekly, including competition-grade lots most roasters never source.
Stokes Croft
Twoday roast on-site and serve nothing older than two days. The single-origin filter list moves with the roastery output; ask whoever's behind the bar what came off the roaster this week.
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The One Coffee · 23 May
Bristol has a cluster of own-roastery cafes across Stokes Croft, Southville, and Clifton.
Richaro's Ramblings · 14 Aug
I am writing this from Ponta Delgada, where the coffee in front of me was roasted about four streets away. Normally that is the whole story.