6 neighbourhoods·26 cafés·last updated May 2026
Ritual roasts on-site and serves seasonal single-origins alongside the house flat white. King Shots Coffee works out of a park pavilion in Montpellier; The Scandinavian Coffee Pod runs three named origins across espresso and pour-over simultaneously.
Our top picks4 picks
01
Lansdown
“An own-roastery that invites guest roasters in rather than treating its own output as the ceiling.”
Ritual roasts in the building. The flat white runs on house beans, a guest programme brings in outside roasters alongside, and the food is good enough that the industrial estate address stops being a consideration.
02
Charlton Kings
Clifton Coffee on the grinder, Fazenda Pinhal on the menu.
03
Montpellier
The best coffee in Montpellier comes out of a park.
04
Town Centre
Three named origins, La Marzocco hardware, and a cortado that means something.
6 neighbourhoods
The Scandinavian Coffee Pod runs three named single origins across espresso and pour-over simultaneously. Parler on Clarence Street pairs that precision with 60s furniture and DEYA on tap.
Elsewhere Roastery coffee in a French-bistro room that earns the pairing.
Town Centre address, but the baristas weigh shots and the guest espresso has tasting notes.
The Eagle One and the Colombian aren't decorative: the owner knows what he's doing with both.
The coffee case here is one barista's pride in her pour.
King Shots Coffee runs out of a Montpellier park pavilion; a gift shop a few streets over has a coffee shed out back serving Rave Coffee from Cirencester.
Leo's behind the bar and the latte art is the evidence.
One espresso bar in Montpellier where the barista knows what extraction means.
Puts more into the coffee than the atmosphere-first reviews let on.
A machine worth photographing in Montpellier, with espresso that backs the hardware up.
Ritual Coffee Roasters roasts in the building, which is the main reason to visit. Slō Coffee's filter menu is the second.
Ritual roasts on-site and serves seasonal single-origins alongside the house flat white. King Shots Coffee works out of a park pavilion in Montpellier; The Scandinavian Coffee Pod runs three named origins across espresso and pour-over simultaneously.
Last updated May 2026
Lansdown
Ritual roasts in the building. The flat white runs on house beans, a guest programme brings in outside roasters alongside, and the food is good enough that the industrial estate address stops being a consideration.
Charlton Kings
One of the few Cheltenham cafes operating at specialty level, with Clifton Coffee on the grinder and a menu that tells you where the espresso grew.