5 neighbourhoods·85 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 Sweven buys competition-circuit lots for its Southville roastery. Easton runs on ChaiGuy's Karak and Wogan-sourced beans at Baraka.
The best of Bristol4 picks
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Southville
“Bristol's most connoisseur-grade roastery, buying competition-circuit lots most cafes never touch.”
Sweven roasts its own beans in Southville, buying rare, competition-grade lots that rarely turn up in a cup you can simply walk in and order.
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Old City
The Bristol roaster that publishes exactly what it pays its producers.
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Stokes Croft
Stokes Croft's on-site roastery with a brew bar where tasting notes run the order.
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Stokes Croft
A Stokes Croft roastery sourcing green beans through the same importers competition roasters use.
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.
A Bristol roastery built to sell beans, with a cafe bolted on.
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 Bristol counter for the Cornish roaster that names every origin on the menu.
A Bristol cafe that treats its seasonal filter as seriously as its espresso blend.
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.
No on-site roasters in Clifton, just good imports: Hard Lines from Cardiff, Yallah from Falmouth, and a rotating guest hopper at Spicer & Cole.
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.
Bristol's benchmark roaster Extract Coffee keeps this Clifton counter honest.
A Clifton gallery running Extract Coffee, with a guest single-origin slot from The Barn.
Bristol's most connoisseur-grade roastery, buying competition-circuit lots most cafes never touch.
An on-site Bedminster roastery the food reviews have been underselling.
Colonna Coffee across three brew formats, the single origin rotating through each.
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 Sweven buys competition-circuit lots for its 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 coffee in Old City and publishes exactly what it pays its producers, a transparency most roasters keep to themselves. The programme is run by a Q-Grader and SCA-certified roaster, which shows in the cup.
Stokes Croft
Twoday roasts on-site and won't sell a bag older than two days, so what's behind the counter changes with what just came off the roaster. Ask what's freshest before you order.
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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.