"Nude roasts in-house and sells retail from the counter. Three coffees on rotation, staff who know all of them, and a Hanbury Street address that's been earning its specialty reputation since 2010."
25 Hanbury St, London E1 6QR, UK
The room looks borrowed from a Shoreditch tattoo parlour. The espresso is as committed as the aesthetic, which is saying something.
Kiss the Hippo runs its own roastery and this Shoreditch branch is where you taste the full picture. Rotating single-origin lots on both espresso and filter, baristas who know what's in the hopper and why.
Flying Horse roasts their own beans in Hackney and pours them in Shoreditch, which is as close to the source as you'll get in this corner of the city. Come for the single origins.