10 neighbourhoods·9 cafés·last updated June 2026
Float lists Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Brazil single-origins by cultivar and process method; Meraki pours Devon Coffee Company beans and draws its own regulars. Harbour Cafe pulls walkers off the coast path on espresso alone.
Our top picks4 picks
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Woolacombe
“A Woolacombe counter where Devon Coffee Company beans get a fair hearing.”
Devon Coffee Company supplies the beans, and the coffee here pulls in its own regulars independent of the brunch offer. Worth the stop on South Street.
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Ilfracombe
The Ilfracombe surf shop that sources single origins better than it advertises.
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Ilfracombe
The Origin coffee counter in Ilfracombe, where the process board isn't decoration.
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Combe Martin
A Combe Martin counter where the flat white earns the Melbourne comparison.
5 villages
Float works at cultivar level, with Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Brazil single origins in rotation. A coastal town with one precise reason to seek it out for coffee.
The Origin coffee counter in Ilfracombe, where the process board isn't decoration.
The Ilfracombe coffee stop that chose its name knowing what fika means.
The Ilfracombe cream tea room that put filter coffee on the menu.
The Ilfracombe independent worth the stop for the Austrian menu, coffee included.
Devon Coffee Company supplies the beans at Meraki Coffee Co., which has built its own regulars in a surf village where most visitors are here for the beach.
One coffee truck, Harper's, doing flat whites consistent enough to pull people back the next morning. Croyde is a surf village first; the coffee earns its place.
Float lists Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Brazil single-origins by cultivar and process method; Meraki pours Devon Coffee Company beans and draws its own regulars. Harbour Cafe pulls walkers off the coast path on espresso alone.
Last updated June 2026
Woolacombe
Devon Coffee Company supplies the beans, and the coffee here pulls in its own regulars independent of the brunch offer. Worth the stop on South Street.
Ilfracombe
Single-origin coffees from Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Brazil with processing method and cultivar detail, in an Ilfracombe surf shop that makes no attempt to signal it.