"Ritual Coffee Roasters on the machine, St Georges Bakery pastries on the counter, and three floors of The Square to settle into. The coffee earns its place; the building does the rest."
The Square, 1 Talbot Ct, Stow-on-the-Wold, Cheltenham GL54 1BQ, UK
Takeaway only in tourist-heavy Stow, but the beans are freshly roasted and the owner knows where they came from. Come for a coffee; leave with a bag.
Most Cotswolds cafes are betting you won't notice the coffee. This one's betting you will.
Missing Bean roasts in Oxford; this is the Woodstock room where coffee people go to drink it. The cappuccino is the reason most of them come back.