Ulterior Motives
29 AprJune 2026 in Somerset (… and the ulterior coffee motive)
June in Somerset arcs from the last weekend of Bath International Music Festival to dawn on Glastonbury Tor summer solstice gathering on the 21st.
Loud Mouth roasts on the edge of town and pours across two sites; Five Yard serves from a classic car restoration shop; Castelli runs Clifton Coffee Roasters beans from a working bike workshop on Bath Street.
Last updated April 2026
Properly excellent.
Loud Mouth roasts its own coffee in a commerce park unit on the edge of Frome. Go for the rotating single origins; take a bag home.
Round Hill Roastery runs the beans here, and the setting is a working classic car restoration yard on Frome's edge. Both are the point.
Loud Mouth roast on-site at Black Swan Arts, sell direct, and have named their coffees Jaw Dropper, Proper Gobby and Dizzy Lips with full conviction. The espresso is the point; the bag of beans is the souvenir.
The everyday answer.
Round Hill Roasters on the filter, and the cup holds up: fruit character, clarity, a finish that stays. The most coffee-literate stop in Frome.
Food-first all-dayer where the coffee is good enough that people leave with a bag of beans. The brunch takes itself seriously, which is rarer in Frome than it should be.
Clifton Coffee Roasters beans from the back of Pronto Bikes, a working bicycle workshop on Bath Street. The homemade food has its own following.