8 cafés·last updated May 2026
Calm Coffee Roastery works with laurina and aramosa, two low-caffeine cultivars rare in London. Old Spike and Ukkei both roast their own a few streets away.
Ulterior Motives · 16 Jun
London in July runs two clocks. One is the second week at the tennis and the Proms finding their opening night; the other is quieter: six wooden skiffs rowing…
Ulterior Motives · 19 May
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Calm Coffee Roastery works with laurina and aramosa, two low-caffeine cultivars rare in London. Old Spike and Ukkei both roast their own a few streets away.
Last updated May 2026
One of very few London roasters working with laurina and aramosa, two low-caffeine cultivars sourced by named origin from Colombia and Brazil. The bags are the point.
Old Spike is a roastery that runs a cafe, not the other way around. The Brazilian house blend is the espresso to order, and the baristas here trained on it as part of a social enterprise mission that puts craft at the centre.
The Peckham outpost of Elsewhere Coffee, one of London's sharper specialty roasters. Filter is the focus, and it's landing.
A Peckham gallery with Redemption Roasters on the menu and cortados that justify the journey. The sourdough is baked in-house, which is the same point made differently.
Tucked into Peckham Palms Arcade, this female-owned independent sources from women growers and makes a mocha that converts the unconvinced.
Batch brew alongside the espresso programme, a flat white worth coming back for, and the kind of Saturday-morning crowd that builds over years, not months.
Food draws the crowd on Choumert Road. The filter coffee rewards whoever orders it, and at a place better known for brunch, that's not nothing.
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Ulterior Motives · 16 Jun
London in July runs two clocks. One is the second week at the tennis and the Proms finding their opening night; the other is quieter: six wooden skiffs rowing…
Ulterior Motives · 19 May
London's June is a calendar of things that don't happen otherwise: a hundred locked gardens opened for one weekend at the start of the month, the King's…