Speciality Coffee in Southwark, London
23 speciality cafés · 2 check-ins this month · 1 coffee drinkers
Southwark has quietly built a reputation as one of London's more rewarding neighbourhoods for specialty coffee, with a cluster of independent and craft-focused shops that each bring their own character to the area. Saint Nine Coffee on Southwark Street has developed a strong local following, while further along you'll find Origin Coffee bringing its Cornish-roasted beans to the borough's streets. Whether you're after a neighbourhood regular or somewhere new to discover, the cafés below offer a good reason to take your time in SE1.
Coffee shops in Southwark
These are the best speciality coffee shops in Southwark, based on community ratings, check-ins and available roast menus.
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Saint Nine Coffee
Specialty coffee shop on Southwark Street, SE1, with a strong local following and a 4.9-star rating.
Birds Hill Coffee Southwark
Specialty café on Southwark Street, SE1, earning strong local loyalty with a 4.8-star rating from 256 reviews.
Calico Coffee
Specialty café on Lower Marsh in Southwark, earning strong local loyalty with a 4.7 Google rating.
Origin Coffee (Scoresby Street)
Origin Coffee on Scoresby Street brings Cornish-roasted specialty coffee to Southwark's quieter SE1 streets.
Roasting Plant Coffee
Roasting Plant Coffee brings its jetting brew system to Borough High St, steps from Borough Market.
Caravan - Great Guildford Street
Chapter 72
Hej
Lantana - Southwark St
What coffee tastes like in Southwark
Southwark has quietly accumulated twenty-three speciality cafés, forming one of London's more considered coffee neighbourhoods. The cups here tend toward the indulgent and approachable, with caramel, chocolate, and peach appearing often enough to suggest a local preference for sweetness balanced with gentle complexity.
Flavour notes derived from roasts on active café menus and community check-ins.
What's on the menu
Based on roasts from roasters stocked across Southwark
What Southwark is drinking
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Join to contributeFrequent coffee flavours in Southwark
The flavour notes you're most likely to encounter across Southwark's speciality coffee shops. Each note links to roasts across London that share the same profile.
What coffee is being drunk in Southwark
Coffee roasts that GCL members have been checking in to most often across Southwark's cafés in the last 30 days.
Taste trends in Southwark
How Southwark's coffee culture is shifting over time.
Nearby neighbourhoods
Other parts of London within easy reach of Southwark.
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