4 neighbourhoods·28 cafés·last updated April 2026
Rhostio roasts in Roath, Uncommon Ground runs roastery-cafés in the Royal Arcade and on Cathedral Road, and Quantum has been in Cardiff Bay since 2015. Hard Lines, KIN+ILK, and Coffi Lab all roast their own.
4 neighbourhoods
Uncommon Ground roasts inside the Victorian Royal Arcade; 200 Degrees runs a live barista school two streets away on Queen Street.
The Cardiff roastery working from a market counter, as intended.
Cardiff's own roastery in the Royal Arcade, served by staff who understand what they're pouring.
The own roastery and live barista school aren't window dressing on Queen Street.
The city-centre stop where filter gets the same attention as espresso.
Wellfield Road runs through the middle of it: Rhostio roasts here, Mec runs a rotating guest programme, Sparrow holds the cortado standard.
The V60 counter that converts people, inside a Roath homeware store.
The cortado convinced a coffee nerd, and the V60 explains why.
Roath's working roastery, where regulars name the bean lot before the drink.
Beans from Ricardo's field in El Salvador, served out of a Turkish-inspired corner on Wellfield Road.
Uncommon Ground, Coffi Lab, Hard Lines, and KIN+ILK all roast their own beans here, making Pontcanna home to four of Cardiff's working roasteries.
Cardiff's working roastery, where the no-syrups rule is the opening statement.
Adam roasts here in Cardiff, names the blends, and writes the tasting notes.
A working roastery inside a neighbourhood cafe, tracing every cup back to Fernando Lima.
Clifton Coffee in a Pontcanna kitchen that could get away with less.
Rhostio roasts in Roath, Uncommon Ground runs roastery-cafés in the Royal Arcade and on Cathedral Road, and Quantum has been in Cardiff Bay since 2015. Hard Lines, KIN+ILK, and Coffi Lab all roast their own.
Last updated April 2026
Roath
The baristas treat coffee knowledge as a service, not a status signal. Other specialty cafes in Cardiff direct their curious regulars here.
Roath
V60 on the bar, cortados that Roath's coffee crowd keeps coming back to. Specialty coffee done with purpose.