good morning good to see you how are you
the city of london you and me are going
on a bit of an adventure today we're
going on a big coffee tour of london but
first things first we're gonna
take a look at your own coffee shop
so just tell us a little bit about
busy coffee shop here in the financial
district of the city of london
we can do up to 1300 coffees a day it's
like maybe 30 kilos including retail
as busy as we do guess when we know
everyone's names we know their orders
and if londoners or anybody around the
world have never been here before if
one coffee today what would you
recommend for them as funny as it sounds
like genuinely whatever coffee you want
like it's we're not precious about the
coffee that we serve at in terms of like
sugars in your latte take photos
okay james next up where are we we're in
the east end of london at ozone coffee
roasters i know the original site
so i'm super excited to take a look
hey emily how are you doing good thank
you how are you we're awesome
so take us back to the beginning you
know how did ozone come about in the
so ozone was founded in 1998 in a
teeny tiny coastal town in new zealand
it's quite an isolated area which makes
it really amazing and unique and the
sense of community is incredible
but it is a small little place in new
our owners identified that they wanted
to come to london and just expand and
kind of get everything that london has
to offer one of the one of the things
that you guys do so well is really
incorporating the theater
of coffee and the theatre of the kitchen
into your space that's obviously
intentional absolutely yeah the
experience i think for us
is ultimately build something amazing
and yeah from a front of house point of
view it's just really fun it's a really
inspiring working environment to be in
i think the staff will really thrive off
that and that you know that level of
i'm thinking for people at home if
they've never been on to this site what
would you encourage them to do yeah it's
definitely the antiquity and brunch
style here i would say come on a
saturday morning come in for a coffee
a really beautiful morning you can sit
out here have a coffee while you're
have awesome brunch have some bloody
marys have some pancakes for the table
and then from here it's awesome you can
wander up to broadway market it's just a
really cool place to be on the weekend
so in classic london style we've put our
shades on the sun's disappeared
where are we james we are on dalston
lane this is all press let's uh take a
my name is charlie i am the brand lead
for all press in the unlikely event
that somebody hasn't heard of all press
can you tell us a little bit about uh
what the brand stands for we started
back in 1989 as a coffee cart
um and i think what where the brand
now kind of comes from is is mike
his move from being a coffee cart to
kind of changed the the course of all
uh just preparing coffee to to selling
and that really made the focus even more
so for us flavors probably where it all
in the cafe but also like that's why we
built our own roaster because we
a roaster that that sort of met all of
married with people and and the sort of
in technology and coffee and
all of that at the core we rest um for
and different tastes and flavors and
basically try and get it to people as
um and consistently delicious for all of
our cafes we try and supply consistently
uh espresso whatever blend they choose
and then those are kind of interspersed
um single origins like this this is a
panini now um and this space in our
range is called our coffee galaxy so
it's kind of about the exploration of
um things outside of our espresso and
yeah another one off the list
yes crack on 100 let's go
we're here in battersea southwest river
at capihan this is a family owned and
operated business we've got david and
filipino heritage and that heritage
really shines through in everything they
from their coffee to their baked goods
we try and give a whole cafe experience
to what the philippines represents in
what i love in the cafe is when you can
really see the character of the owners
coming through in the finish this is
who you guys are when setting this up we
kind of feel of the philippines but not
lots of subtle details we like the use
of wood we find it very homely very calm
it's unbelievable beautiful you want to
give a flavor of the philippines so
you're having filipino coffee you're
having filipino flavoured bread yeah
it's done quite a contemporary in quite
an approachable way as well
we always see kapihan as we're welcoming
into our kind of home and we treat them
as a we treat them as family
so we are arriving into one of my
it is borough market we are here to have
some of this in there gentlemen bristos
let's go so gentlemen baristas started
of ada harry our two co-founders and
their idea was very simple
good coffee for everyone the coffee
house not only is a place to get
yeah also as a spot to have a break from
yeah and in this busy area it's really
important to have these kind of little
where you know you can go and hide yeah
so they know everyone around
and there's a little community of london
bridge area i'm just looking behind you
some sweet treats and baked goods here
and i think you were saying you make
these yourself no not myself
for our head chef peter yeah plus all
the home baking these are all his
this vegan coffee cake is made with our
coffee with the deer stalker
then there is the paper towel that i
want to point out because it's just
it's so good okay gentlemen barista's
hey how are you good how are you
we're thirsty can we come in more coffee
my name is frida and i work for origin
and you're at our shallow road cafe tell
us about the part of london
that we're in um we are currently in
shoreditch right now and it's very
the ethnic group and then also races
it's a place people will come here for
for night life and it's a really fun
place to be actually i'd love to know
what everything that encompasses
origin as a as a business um so origin
is a established 15 years coffee
we're a company that stores icicle
direct partnership with all of our
our wholesale cafes and also we have our
and we also sell coffees online tom set
up this business 15 years ago with
no criteria no benchmark and i found
be in this position because you have no
benchmark literally so you can do really
whatever you want and this is a really
place to be i would travel to panama to
get some really really crazy and funky
complex coffee but i also would go to
where the coffees are really solid
delicious sweet and chocolatey and nutty
and it's just down to earth and
being really diverse in a way to present
is one of the most exciting thing to be
because there are so many different
palettes so many different people are
coming from so many different countries
and just fun okay so we're arriving here
old street right now for look mum no
if you have a bike you probably know
this place you can literally bring your
bike here and get it serviced and fixed
but people also come here for the beer
they're now one of the mainstays in the
specialty coffee scene in london let's
we opened in 2010 which was at the real
beginning of their sort of bike boom
really then you had the olympics and
then of course we started winning all
we were at the right right time really
fantastic and so you can actually get
your bike service here as well is that
right and yeah we have a workshop where
we'll fix everything from
a puncture on somebody's buggy to uh
tuning up someone's di2 we never
set about making a brand you know we
bikes sell great coffee and watch the
it once we realized that look mum the
hands kind of resonated and not just
locally but it means something to
everybody really people were
emailing us from america saying can i
buy a t-shirt and thinking this is
is a coffee you'd love to recommend or i
mean i would just say come and
come and hang out for a bit really you
know we've got 10 years of
organic fingerprints on the wall as it
were so it's quite a visually
you know interesting place to be and
real mixture of people so just come and
soak a bit up really i think and if you
even better we are on old street
roundabout and behind me is the home of
they do coffee at a.m drinks in the pm
check it out let's go we started as just
during the day and have since added a
cocktail element a food element we've
got a recording studio upstairs
over the years we've had a wide range of
famous people in here we get them all to
and music is a big part of what we do we
like to say that it's the beating heart
of the business at sort of
five o'clock we change the lighting we
put the candles out we change the music
and what's next for grime the main thing
for us is really trying to
weather the new normal we're trying to
understand what things are going to be
see what happens as the weather changes
get the stores back open while making
sure that we're keeping the staff
and the guests as safe as possible um
and then see where we end up
on the other side of the new year
here at proofrock coffee a tour of the
london coffee scene is not complete
without these guys they set the
really across the uk the teas are also
awesome so check them out
uh lovely to be here oh lovely to meet
and i'm the general manager here dude
tell us a little bit about the history
our proofrock so perfect was originally
three guys and what really like
connected all of them was the love for
in a men's clothing shop is like a
so they've been on shortage high street
months and then they found this place
and they've moved here in early 2011
so in couple of months we are exactly
like 10 years square mile is your
house standard the cornerstone of the
a what's a red brick or what do you have
on the bottom so we do have as a house
at the red brick but then we do change
all the time so we've got at the moment
some coffees from nomad coffee we've got
manhattan coffee roasters do you want to
maybe talk us through a bit of what
yeah so we've got the snapchat coffee
a cooled coffee so you get all of the
properties of hot iced filter
but really fresh and delicious then
affogato so that's our homemade ice
so we've got stone rolled tea so it's a
that's roasted and ground in london
that's actually oat milk with it
so it should have like a nice roastiness
people don't take tea that seriously i
think so we would like to
highlight the great teas and treat it
yeah so this actually is the first
we opened this in 2014 and it was
the concept behind it was to just bring
a neighborhood feeling with
really good coffee and really good food
in the angel area tell us a little bit
about the coffees that we have here in
sure yeah so at the moment we are having
some long blacks and flat white we are
colombia we always look for coffees that
they were grown in a sustainable way so
essentially we try to always have fresh
according to the seasons from different
and offered freshly fresh crops
here we are now in the middle of soho in
the west end we've got all the theaters
of shaftsby avenue behind us
here on old compton street we're at
bayer terminus that's right so bar
germany is based on a station in rome
and uh it's an absolute icon of soho so
show us around and take us inside
tell us about the bar why is it you know
what makes it so special i would say
like very very early morning nice and
italian coffee bar then everyone has a
at the evening after five or six
start to kind of ramp up exactly also
we uh before before lockdown we also we
single espresso at the bottom which was
just one pound you can come
and basically the the things is that we
our espresso the single especially
for one pound so usually wow
that's very cool usually usually also
italians like i don't want to spend like
two or three pounds for the coffee i
think it's probably time for us to try
you're gonna take us into the night i
think it's uh it's going well
we've moved to west london now we are in
chelsea on the kings road this is bardo
they've got six sites across
london this is their latest one these
guys do all day dining better than
pretty much anyone i've seen so go check
i'm toby kidman and we're here at vardo
restaurant on the kings road when they
caravan caravan fitzrovia on great
an opportunity to stop what we were
doing and really get back into the kind
and then cadogan approached us and kind
of said you know hey we're interested in
having you guys come down and be a real
landmark for us and help us kind of grow
we'll bring the bring the caravan vibe
uh and help kind of try and bring back a
i was just saying to james on the way in
i mean i feel like this is one of the
exciting venues to open up in the last
couple of years what we've got going on
it's a filter which usually gives us the
opportunity to get a couple of singles
on throughout the week work hard to
green beans directly and bring them over
different filter options it gives the
roasters the opportunity just to kind of
put up what they think is fantastic and
having the nevada and the caravan
restaurants give us the opportunity to
what a treat primrose hill in the
it doesn't get better than this
we've come up to primrose hill which is
one of my favorite spots in london we've
got the most incredible views behind us
you're about to make us a pour over so
house filter coffee from from roslyn
so it's a washed colombian from the
wheeler region it's great as a black
which is what we're going to have
it's also great with milk the first part
of the pour is going to be the bloom
slow circular motion up to 100 mils
this is to allow the coffee to release
all the gases what i tend to do is i
chase any dark patches on the
surface of the brew you're aiming for
three and a half to four minutes
thank you sir yeah rosalind's finest
we've had an absolutely incredible time
12 beautiful stops along the way
one of your highlights been great to see
some of the legends of the uk coffee
be ozone at emma street or caravan at
vardo or proofrock with a refresh
not resting on the laurels but doing
something new and really adding and
contributing something new to the scene
here how about you did you have a
and why was it roslyn for me honestly
i one of the highlights was meeting the
family behind capahan right
yeah and you'd agree with me so
beautiful so humble and doing such great
work and you've got a new site opening
soon is that right yes we have a second
side opening up hopefully before the end
fantastic that's great news although
it's been a real honor thanks for
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