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
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tucked into Peckham Palms Arcade, this female-owned independent sources from women growers and makes a mocha that converts the unconvinced.
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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…