Leeds finally has a roastery serious enough to name its own lots.

The roast is theirs, and someone walked 25km to prove it.

Leeds' own roastery, with Kirkgate as the place to drink the batches.

A market kiosk running Darkwoods Coffee, and Leeds knows it.

The Nottingham roastery settles the question of whether this is a chain or a roaster.

A Leeds roastery with a café attached, not the other way around.

Roasts its own beans, and the baristas can tell you exactly why.

The Liverpool roastery that translated its standards to Leeds city centre.

Better barista work than Headingley has any right to expect.

Solid coffee in a Scandinavian room where the bagels usually take top billing.

Headingley's brunch anchor, where the flat white is worth ordering even without the food.

Run by a competition mixologist who decided espresso deserved the same precision.

Batch brew and proper flat whites, in the neighbourhood that needed them.

The coffee holds up in a room that's already full without it.

Someone back there cares about extraction, and the flat white is the proof.

The coffee holds its own against the programme, which isn't always true of arts centres.