Kapow Coffee has been roasting in Leeds for thirteen years; 92 Degrees brings its Liverpool roastery across four sites here. Roaster-owned coffee is the norm in this centre, not the exception.
The best coffee you'll find
Worth going out of your way
Raw roasts their own beans and the staff know every lot on the shelf, so tell them what you like and let them pick. The flat white actually tastes of something.
Clay Pit Ln
92 Degrees runs its own roastery out of Liverpool and pours its house-roasted beans across four Leeds sites. This is a proper roaster-café doing things on its own terms.
200 Degrees roasts everything themselves in Nottingham and ships it straight to Bond Street, so what's in your cup is genuinely theirs. Single-origin espresso with tasting notes on the menu, none of the flavoured-latte filler.
Good if you're nearby
A coffee-and-cocktails bar that takes both halves seriously. Come for an espresso drink, stay for whatever's on the cocktail menu.
Consistently good espresso and a relaxed space right in central Leeds. Stage is the kind of independent that lets the coffee do the talking.
Wharf Approach
A Liverpool roaster with a proper canal-side outpost in Leeds. The flat whites are consistent and the latte art is the real deal.
A proper Milanese espresso bar that takes its Italian identity seriously. The dark-roast shots are executed with real precision, on kit that most cafes in the city would envy.
A canal-side independent using beans from Darkwoods, one of Yorkshire's most respected specialty roasters. Solid, consistent coffee in a relaxed setting that makes the surrounding chains look pretty embarrassing.