The 15 Essential Coffee Shops in London

"Normally the trajectory for a serious London neighbourhood shop goes like this. It opens, buys nice coffee from a nice roaster, brews nice coffee from a roaster nicely, and nice people come and think “wow, this coffee is nice.” Then the cafe thinks “ooh, what if we made nice coffee from nice coffee we roasted nicely ourselves instead.” It trys to start roasting and then the nice coffee it roasts is roasted not very nicely and it is sad. 15 Grams in Greenwich honed its roasting first, in partnership with a Marylebone newsagent and a couple of cafes, then opened the cafe to brew the coffee. Now it’s one of the best cafes in south east London, and indeed the whole city, whether for espresso or filter" - James Hansen