"A hotel café on Warwick Street where the house blend is built from three named origins and described in flavour terms. Order the flat white."
11 Warwick St, London W1B 5NA, UK
Peter opened this in 2009, when there were very few places in London taking coffee seriously. He's still there, and so is the standard.
Kiss the Hippo roasts in Richmond and runs this Soho counter on the same terms: rotating single origins, seasonal espresso blends, and a manual brew menu from V60 to Chemex. This isn't a branded spin-off; it's the roaster, in Soho.
A Carnaby bookstore pulling shots from Open Fields Coffee. Order the flat white.