Roaster
Covent Garden
Monmouth Coffee
Covent Garden
A coffee-focused stop on Monmouth Street, with beans to take home and a choice of coffees to sample.
WC2H 9EUGet to know it
THE INDEPENDENT DIRECTORY
London’s independent
coffee shop directory.
Independent coffee shops in London, from your next neighbourhood regular to a roastery worth the trip. 48 locations, with a source behind each one.
The coffee shops
48 places to discover
No cups found. Yet.
Try a different neighbourhood, a shorter postcode or fewer filters.
Coffee & food
Clerkenwell
Prufrock Coffee
Leather Lane
Coffee, food made from scratch and a coffee shop that has called Leather Lane home since 2011.
EC1N 7TEGet to know it
Coffee & food
De Beauvoir
Batch Baby
De Beauvoir
A neighbourhood coffee shop in the Rose Lipman Building, with a soft spot for its 1970s setting.
N1 5SFGet to know it
Coffee & food
Fulham
Carbon Kopi
Fulham
Plot Roasting coffee, homemade cookies and toasties at Carbon Kopi’s Hazlebury Road café, where laptops are welcome.
SW6 2NAGet to know it
Bakery
Islington
Pophams
Islington
A Prebend Street bakery for the days when a coffee break is really about the pastry, too.
N1 8PFGet to know it
Roaster
Peckham
Old Spike
Peckham Rye
A Peckham coffee stop from a London roaster whose employment programme supports people affected by homelessness.
SE15 4JRGet to know it
Coffee & food
Fitzrovia
Kaffeine
Great Titchfield Street
An independently owned espresso bar inspired by Australian and New Zealand coffee culture.
W1W 7QJGet to know it
Coffee & food
Fitzrovia
Kaffeine
Eastcastle Street
Kaffeine’s second Fitzrovia address, for an espresso-bar pause just north of Oxford Street.
W1T 3AYGet to know it
Roaster
Borough
Monmouth Coffee
Borough Market
Monmouth’s Park Street shop, with brewed coffee and bags of beans beside Borough Market.
SE1 9ABGet to know it
Roaster
Bermondsey
Monmouth Coffee
Bermondsey
The Dockley Road shop for Monmouth coffee, beans and brewing supplies in Bermondsey.
SE16 3AFGet to know it
Espresso bar
City of London
Rosslyn Coffee
Queen Victoria Street
A City coffee bar on Queen Victoria Street, with Saturday service as well as the weekday routine.
EC4N 4SJGet to know it
Espresso bar
City of London
Rosslyn Coffee
London Wall
A weekday coffee bar for the northern side of the Square Mile.
EC2Y 5JAGet to know it
Roaster
London Fields
Climpson & Sons
Broadway Market
The Broadway Market café from an east London coffee roaster, with coffee and equipment to take home.
E8 4PHGet to know it
Coffee bar
Spitalfields
Nagare Coffee
Spitalfields
A Brushfield Street coffee stop on the edge of Spitalfields Market.
E1 6AGGet to know it
Roaster
Homerton
Dark Arts Coffee
Homerton Roastery
A takeout espresso bar at the working home of Dark Arts’ roasting and production.
E9 6JHGet to know it
Roaster
Shoreditch
Dark Arts Coffee
The Great Frog
A Dark Arts coffee stand inside The Great Frog, serving espresso and filter in Shoreditch.
EC2A 3ETGet to know it
Roaster
Leyton
Perky Blenders
Project 660
Locally roasted coffee, Crumbs pastries and a shelf of local makers on Leyton High Road.
E10 6JPGet to know it
Bakery
London Fields
Pophams
London Fields
Coffee and bakery counter browsing on Richmond Road, close to London Fields.
E8 3NJGet to know it
Bakery
Victoria Park
Pophams
Victoria Park
A Lauriston Road bakery stop to work into a walk around Victoria Park.
E9 7HAGet to know it
Roaster
Elephant & Castle
Old Spike
Elephant & Castle
Old Spike espresso and bags of coffee on Southwark Bridge Road.
SE1 6FJGet to know it
Roaster
Southwark
Old Spike
Southwark
A Great Suffolk Street stop for Old Spike coffee, pastries and sandwiches.
SE1 0BSGet to know it
Roaster
East Finchley
Campbell & Syme
East Finchley
Two single-origin espressos and three filter choices at Campbell & Syme’s original East Finchley café, opened in October 2012.
N2 9JRGet to know it
Coffee & food
Crouch End
Coffee Circus
Crouch End
Musical-notation wallpaper, painted birds and local arts connections at this independent Crouch Hill café.
N8 9DXGet to know it
Coffee & food
Barons Court
Carbon Kopi
Barons Court
Carbon Kopi’s original 2019 corner café, serving Plot coffee and rotating guest roasters on Margravine Road.
W6 8LSGet to know it
Roaster
Battersea
Story Coffee
St John’s Hill
The original Story Coffee, with drinks, fresh bakes and beans on St John’s Hill.
SW11 1SZGet to know it
Roaster
Wandsworth
Story Coffee
Wandsworth
A brunch-focused coffee stop in the Ram Quarter, with indoor and outdoor seating.
SW18 1ULGet to know it
Roaster
City of London
Story Coffee
Devonshire Square
Story’s City address, with indoor and outdoor seating and beans for home.
EC2M 4YHGet to know it
Roaster
Ealing
Electric Coffee Co.
Ealing
An Ealing coffee address with a wide range of beans for brewing at home.
W5 2NXGet to know it
Neighbourhood café
Brockley
Browns of Brockley
Brockley
A Coulgate Street coffee stop with a short, morning-focused opening window.
SE4 2RWGet to know it
Espresso bar
Soho
Flat White
Soho
A walk-in coffee shop on Berwick Street for a pause in the middle of Soho.
W1F 0PTGet to know it
Roaster
Holborn
Catalyst Coffee
Gray’s Inn Road
A Holborn café and coffee roaster with a speciality blend-led approach.
WC1X 8LTGet to know it
Roaster
Peckham
Ukkei Brew Bar
Peckham
A speciality brew bar tucked into Rye Lane Market, serving Peckham from Thursday to Sunday.
SE15 5BYGet to know it
Family-run
Battersea
Kapihan
547 Battersea Park Road
A Battersea café from the Motley family’s Filipino coffee and baking business, with an earlier weekday close than its sister shop.
SW11 3BLGet to know it
Coffee & food
Battersea
Kapihan
Big Kubo — 138 Battersea Park Road
Kapihan’s Big Kubo café, where separate weekday and weekend lunch menus make the street number part of the plan.
SW11 4LYGet to know it
Coffee & groceries
Brixton
F. Mondays
Brixton Hill
The original F. Mondays, combining coffee and groceries in a converted Brixton Hill shop that opened in 2014.
SW2 1AHGet to know it
Beans to take home
Brixton
F. Mondays
Coldharbour Lane
F. Mondays’ central Brixton café, with coffee, retail beans and brewing equipment beside the Town Hall junction.
SW9 8FNGet to know it
Neighbourhood café
Brixton
Stir Coffee
Brixton Hill
A daytime Brixton Hill coffee stop with a 2016 founding story and a published 3pm close throughout the week.
SW2 1AAGet to know it
Coffee & food
Streatham
Brooks & Gao
The High Parade
Coffee, a kitchen and deli shopping on Streatham High Road, with separate hours for food and the shop.
SW16 1EXGet to know it
Roaster
Shoreditch
Ozone Coffee
Leonard Street
The café where Ozone first arrived in London, just off Old Street roundabout, with filter, espresso and a breakfast and lunch kitchen every day.
EC2A 4AQGet to know it
Roaster
London Fields
Ozone Coffee
Emma Street
A quieter Ozone eatery on Emma Street, a short walk from London Fields, for filter coffee and a long weekend brunch.
E2 9APGet to know it
Espresso bar
City of London
Ozone Coffee
Ludgate Hill
A weekday Ozone espresso bar a few steps from St Paul’s Cathedral, with toasties, pastries and banana bread.
EC4M 7AWGet to know it
Espresso bar
City of London
Ozone Coffee
Creechurch Lane
Ozone’s weekday espresso bar between Aldgate and Liverpool Street, for coffee, toasties and pastries.
EC3A 5AYGet to know it
Roaster
Shoreditch
Origin Coffee
Charlotte Road
Origin’s Shoreditch brew bar, pouring the Cornish roaster’s full range of monthly feature coffees beneath an illustrated mural.
EC2A 3PEGet to know it
Roaster
Southwark
Origin Coffee
Scoresby Street
Origin’s railway-arch café in Southwark, with pastries, cakes and espresso soft serve to sit in or take away.
SE1 0XNGet to know it
Roaster
King’s Cross
Origin Coffee
The British Library
Origin’s coffee bar inside the British Library on Euston Road, for a cup before a reading room, an exhibition or a train.
NW1 2DBGet to know it
Roaster
Belgravia
Workshop Coffee
Eccleston Street
Workshop’s Belgravia café and training academy, with filter brewed to order by day and aperitivo in the evening.
SW1W 9LTGet to know it
Neighbourhood café
Brick Lane
Kahaila
Brick Lane
A Brick Lane café since 2012, run as a community space with links to a church and several charity projects.
E1 6SBGet to know it
Coffee & food
Stoke Newington
Esters
Kynaston Road
A small Stoke Newington café cooking breakfast, lunch and a Saturday brunch from scratch, with most bakes made in its own kitchen.
N16 0EBGet to know it
Listed for discovery, not ranked. Research checked 25 October 2026. Opening hours and menus can change: follow each shop’s official link before travelling. How we choose →
FROM THE MAKER OF THIS GUIDE
Love your coffee.
Know your caffeine.
Meet BeanFade, our caffeine tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch. Log your cups, follow your estimated caffeine level and plan your last coffee around bedtime.
Explore BeanFade No account needed. Caffeine estimates, made personal.
A little more in tunewith your daily brew.