"The founders came out of Allpress Redchurch Street, and the coffee programme shows it: a monthly filter rotation, retail beans at the counter, and Allpress on espresso. Shoreditch's reliable neighbourhood option for anyone who cares about the cup."
20-22 Toynbee St, London E1 7NE, 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.