These 64 roasters have been recognised for excellence by Great Taste Awards, Cup of Excellence, UK Barista Championships, and other industry bodies. If you are overwhelmed by choice and want a safe bet, starting with award winners is a reasonable shortcut.
Great Taste Awards are the most common. They are judged blind by industry panels, which makes them harder to game than most food awards. A one star means "simply delicious." Two stars means "outstanding." Three stars means the judges could not stop talking about it.
Awards are not everything. Plenty of excellent roasters never enter competitions, and winning a Great Taste star in 2019 does not mean the 2026 batch is the same. But as a starting point for finding quality roasters, it is a useful filter.
47 Degrees Coffee Roasters is a one-man operation run by Aidy Wragg from Unit 24 on Bailey Brook Business Park in Langle...
Simone and Roberto met working in a London restaurant in 2006 and launched 80 Stone in Croydon in 2012. Simone finished ...
918 Coffee Co is the roastery brand at the heart of Just In Coffee Group, based at Semley Business Park near Shaftesbury...
Adams + Russell have roasted coffee from 8 Appin Road on Birkenhead's Argyle Industrial Estate since 1978, neighbours to...
Altitude Coffee London is a small-batch speciality roastery based in Unit 2, 190 Hornchurch Road, Hornchurch, run by fou...
Operating from The Forge on the West Ham Industrial Estate in Hampshire since 1982, ANVIL is one of the longer-standing ...
Apostle Coffee was founded in 2016 by Jon and Charlotte, who run an off grid roastery in the heart of the Shropshire Hil...
Eve MacFarlane founded Argyll Coffee Roasters in 2018, roasting on a Diedrich IR-12 from a unit on Kames Industrial Esta...
Artisan Roast has been roasting specialty coffee in Edinburgh since 2007, one of Scotland's longest standing independent...
Barista Cats is a family run roastery based in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, hand roasting small batches to order and s...
Bay Coffee Roasters is a Welsh speciality roastery based at Parc Tanygroes in Cardigan, near Tresaith beach on the west ...
Bean Brothers Coffee Company is a small batch specialty roaster set up in 2012 by two brothers from Huddersfield. The ro...
Bean Shot was founded in 2013 by Nick Law and roasts from a unit in Bruton, Somerset. The business operates a community ...
Bean Smitten is an independent speciality coffee roastery on the Kent and East Sussex border, set in a rural workshop ne...
Bird & Wild was founded in 2017 around a single certification that most roasters ignore: Bird Friendly, issued by the Sm...
Little Birdie Coffee is a small batch roaster based in Alyth, rural Perthshire, founded after the owner first encountere...
Blindman Coffee is the online roastery of Mike, a Brighton-based coffee operator who started the brand after being told ...
Blue Goose Coffee is a UK speciality roaster built around a simple promise: barista-quality coffee with as little enviro...
Blue Hour Coffee roasts from Winchester, at Hampshire Pantry, and is run by two founders with strong competition credent...
Brazier Coffee Roasters was founded in 2015 by Tom and Claire Brazier, who developed the idea while in Australia and tra...
Brewery Lane Coffee is a specialty coffee roaster based in Dundee, Scotland. Owner and head roaster Chris first discover...
Brewup Coffee is an independent coffee company based in Windsor, Berkshire, founded by Stefan Terblanche after he attend...
Bro Coffee was founded in 2016 by Brenda Johnston, a County Down pilates instructor, and her husband Michael, after Bren...
Broadway Coffee Roasters is a speciality coffee roaster based in Southsea, Portsmouth, founded in 2020 by Duane Matthew ...
Cafedirect is one of the most structurally distinctive businesses in UK coffee. Founded in 1991 by Oxfam, Traidcraft, Eq...
Cafeology is a Sheffield speciality coffee company founded in 2003 by Bryan Unkles and Andy McClatchey. The business is ...
Caffe Ginevra is the UK arm of a Sicilian coffee business founded by Massimino Ginevra in Caltanissetta in 1923. The UK ...
Cairngorm Coffee was founded by Robi Lambie in 2014 around a kitchen table in Newtonmore, and now roasts from a dedicate...
Caravan Coffee Roasters opened on Exmouth Market in early 2010, founded by Laura Harper-Hinton, Miles Kirby and Chris Am...
Caribe Coffee Co. is a family business based at Fairmoor in Morpeth, Northumberland, founded in 2018 by Wilmer Carcamo, ...
Casa Coffee Roasters, trading as Casa Espresso Ltd, is a family run speciality roaster in Shipley, West Yorkshire. Tony ...
Chimney Fire Coffee is based at Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey, the UK's first net-zero certified wine estate, w...
Climpson & Sons has been part of the Broadway Market scene in Hackney since 2002, when founder Ian Burgess moved from a ...
CLO Coffee was founded in 2008 by Nick and Linda Castle, who set out to swap career dissatisfaction for a social busines...
Coaltown Coffee Roasters is a speciality roaster based in Ammanford, a former anthracite mining town in Carmarthenshire,...
Coffee Bean Shop was founded in 2008 by Lizzie Powell and is based in Ashford, Kent. The business began as a personal re...
Coffee Knoydart roasts on the Knoydart peninsula, one of the most remote inhabited corners of mainland Britain, reachabl...
Coffeelink is an Ipswich family business founded by Azzouz and Rebecca on 25 August 2005, with the first cafe opening on...
Colonna Coffee is a Bath-based roastery founded by Maxwell and Lesley Colonna-Dashwood. The story began in Australia in ...
Cooper & Co is one of Jersey's oldest surviving locally owned businesses, founded in 1834 by Thomas Cooper, Richard Coop...
Corban Coffee is an award winning specialty coffee roastery based at Chart Farm in Sevenoaks, Kent, founded in 2017. Nes...
Craft House Coffee is an independent West Sussex roastery that sources 100 percent high-grade Arabica with an 80-plus SC...
Cricklewood Coffee Roasters is a small-batch specialty roaster and cafe in north-west London, founded in 2018 by James. ...
Crosby Coffee was founded in Liverpool in 2014 by Jack Foster, who started roasting at home and selling at local markets...
Cuckfield Coffee Co. was founded in 2021 by Paul and Nardine, a couple who left previous careers to set up an independen...
Danielle's Coffee was set up in May 2010 by Danielle, who built her career in coffee at Rick Stein's restaurants in Pads...
Dark Woods Coffee was founded in 2014 by three people with deep roots in the coffee industry. Damian, the senior roaster...
Dear Green Coffee Roasters was founded in Glasgow in 2011 by one woman with a single roaster. The name comes from Dear G...
Decadent Decaf Coffee Company has been a 100% decaf specialty roaster since 2014, focused exclusively on Swiss Water Pro...
Dusty Ape is a roastery and coffee bar at Marsh Farm Industrial Estate in Hilperton, Wiltshire. The site doubles as roas...
EDGE Tea & Coffee is a third-generation, family-run roastery near Arundel in West Sussex, founded in 1981 by Frank Edgcu...
Electric Coffee Co. is a London roastery with a cafe at 40 Haven Green in Ealing and additional sites at Goldhawk Road, ...
Ethical Addictions Coffee Roasters is a small family business roasting speciality coffee from a unit on Bamfurlong Indus...
Exchange Coffee Co. is a Lancashire roaster and tea merchant with coffee houses and roasting shops across Blackburn, Cli...
Extract Coffee Roasters is a Bristol speciality roastery founded in 2007, with its origins famously in a chicken shed be...
Ferrari's Coffee traces back to 1927, when Vittorio Ferrari settled in South Wales from Italy and built a following for ...
Ffa Da, Welsh for Good Beans, is a small batch speciality roastery on the Cambrian coast in Llandanwg, Harlech, Snowdoni...
Fire & Flow is a Cotswolds speciality coffee roaster founded by childhood friends Callum and Phil with Phil's wife Char....
Frazer's Coffee Roasters was founded in Sheffield in 2014, roasting from the Arundel Coach House on Arundel Street in th...
Freshpac is a family-run Suffolk coffee and catering supplier, founded in 1979 by husband and wife team Gerald and Queen...
Gordon Street Coffee is a Scottish specialty roaster founded in 2014, with cafes and roasteries in Glasgow and Edinburgh...
Grey Seal Coffee is a North Norfolk roaster founded in 2012, bringing third wave coffee to the region from a working far...
Grumpy Mule is an independent coffee roaster based in Meltham, Yorkshire, roasting since 2006 and now part of the Cafédi...
Hampton Roast Coffee is a small batch specialty roaster based at 19 Hampton Close, Larne, in County Antrim, Northern Ire...
Heart & Graft started in James Guard's Manchester garage in 2012 as The Coffee Circle, becoming Heart & Graft in 2015 wh...
Herbert and Ward is a long-established coffee and tea business based in Rochester, Kent, founded in 1929 by Messrs Herbe...
Hermanos Coffee Roasters was founded in 2018 by brothers Victor and Santiago Gamboa with Adnan Millwala, starting as a W...
Hormozi Coffee is a family-run roastery based at Unit 9, Precision 2 Business Park in Sittingbourne, Kent. The business ...
H.R. Higgins is one of the oldest independent coffee roasters in Britain, founded by Harold Rees Higgins on 1 April 1942...
Hundred House Coffee roasts speciality coffee from the Welsh Borders, founded by head roaster Matthew Wade, a Q Arabica ...
Indigo Valley has been roasting since 2005, when it set out to bring together Fairtrade and speciality grade coffee at a...
Iron & Fire was founded in 2012 by Kevin, known as Coffee Kev, who returned from a decade in Melbourne and applied his s...
Island Roasted is the roasting arm of the I.O.W Espresso Co., based in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The business grew o...
Jasper's Coffee is a specialty roaster based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, transforming sustainably sourced beans into ...
Jericho Coffee Traders started in Oxford in 2009 when founders James and Lizzie bought a turquoise Vespa tuk-tuk and dec...
Johnsons Coffee is a long-established family business based at 137 Hillsborough Old Road in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. T...
Jute Coffee is a small roastery in Thrapston, Northamptonshire, working with 100% arabica from small cooperatives and ha...
Kaffeehaus Coffee Roasters is a family founded roastery in Sacriston, County Durham, run by Austrian father and daughter...
Kiss the Hippo is a London specialty roaster that opened its roastery in 2018 and has built a strong sustainability posi...
Koffy is a specialty coffee roastery based at Flurry Bridge Business Park near Jonesborough on the Northern Ireland side...
Lincoln and York is a large-scale B2B coffee roaster and private label specialist founded in 1994 by James Sweeting and ...
The Lincoln Tea and Coffee Company operates from Exchange Close in Lincoln as a wholesale supplier to the hospitality tr...
Lone Wolf Mountain Coffee is a Nottingham-based hand roaster founded in 2021, focused on freshly roasted, 100% Arabica b...
Long & Short Coffee is a Walthamstow roaster trading under the strapline Always Single Origin. The team is led by founde...
Lost Barn Coffee Roasters is based at Old Hall Farm in Grafton, Tilston, in rural Cheshire, where founders Blair, Jo, Ma...
Lost Sheep Coffee was founded in 2012 by Stuart and Sarah, who picked up a love of specialty coffee in Melbourne and bro...
Lucid Coffee Roasters is based at Unit 5, Kennedy Way, Belfast, and was founded in 2021 by Stephen Houston, a coffee pro...
Luckie Beans is a family-run specialty coffee roastery founded in 2015 by Jamie and Esther McLuckie. Based in Galashiels...
Maison Dieu Coffee Roasters is based in the Old Sonoco building on Montrose Street, Brechin, and has been operating Brec...
Masteroast Coffee Company Ltd is one of the UK's largest private label coffee roasters, founded in 1981 by Les and Eve M...
Matthew Algie has roasted coffee in Glasgow since 1864 and grown into one of the UK and Ireland's largest commercial roa...
Monsoon Estates is a family-run coffee roastery at Alscot Park near Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. The business gr...
Mont58 Coffee is a certified B Corporation based in South-East London, founded by husband-and-wife team Shai and Maya. T...
Moonroast Coffee roasts at Chilton Manor Farm in the Candover Valley, Hampshire, supplying delis, farm shops and hospita...
Neighbourhood Coffee roasts out of a unit on the Sandon Estate in Liverpool, positioning itself as a specialty roaster t...
Northern Cobbler was founded in 2010 by Feroza and Steffan, two friends and former footwear-industry colleagues whose in...
Northern Tea Merchants is a Chesterfield tea and coffee specialist with three generations of the Pogson family at its co...
Nude Coffee Roasters has operated from Hanbury Street, in the Spitalfields stretch of east London, since 2008. The flags...
Old Spike Roastery was founded in Peckham in 2015 by two childhood friends, with a mission to roast specialty coffee whi...
Owens Coffee roasts at The Roastery in Endsleigh, Ivybridge, Devon. Every coffee is certified organic and Fairtrade, and...
Paddy & Scott's is a Suffolk coffee roaster founded in 2007, when Paddy and Scott started out on a two kilo roaster nick...
Pebble & Pine is a family-run coffee roaster based at the Park Centre in Horsforth, Leeds, founded in October 2016 by Da...
Penningtons is a family run tea and coffee roaster based at Unit 12 Kendal Business Park, on the southern edge of the La...
Pharmacie Coffee Roasters was founded in 2015 by Rick, who had previously run coffee shops in Brighton, Hove and Kemp To...
Piccolos Coffee is a small-batch independent roaster based in Worksop, North Nottinghamshire. The business has an unusua...
PLOT Roasting is a London specialty coffee roaster, founded in 2019 and built around a stated mission to source and roas...
Pumphreys Coffee traces its origins to 1750, when Leigh Smith opened a coffee business in the Flesh Market in Newcastle,...
Pure Roast Coffee is a third-generation family business based in Northern Ireland, founded in 2006 by Martin Symington a...
Rave Coffee roasts in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, with an HQ cafe attached to the roastery on Phoenix Way. The busines...
Reads Coffee has been roasting in North Dorset since 1999, working from Limekiln Farm near Sherborne. The business was f...
Rise & Grind Roastery is a Scottish speciality roaster operating from 104 Abercorn Street, Glasgow G53 7EE, with coffee ...
Ristretto Coffee is a Northern Ireland specialty roaster founded in 2006 and based in Banbridge, County Down. The team r...
Rounton Coffee roasts from a converted granary in East Rounton, North Yorkshire, where a small team grew the business ou...
Routes Coffee is an Oxford roaster, based in an industrial unit at Fenchurch Court, and the UK's first and only Certifie...
Saints of Mokha is a family-run roastery in Leicester, established in 2016 and named after Ali Ben Omar, the Sufi Saint ...
Salford Roasters was founded by Nik Storey in September 2016, with a stated mission to make speciality coffee accessible...
Sea Island Coffee was founded in 2007, in the wake of the Third Wave coffee movement, and grew out of a sister business ...
Seamoor Coffee is a Peak District roastery based at Riders Point on Bridge Street in Bradwell, sourcing from independent...
Shop House Coffee Roastery was founded in 2021 from a family home in North Lincolnshire, after extended time at home dur...
Silver Oak Coffee is a Cambridgeshire roastery that began with founder Bruce roasting in his garage in 2013, before trad...
NOTE: Slumberjack Coffee is not primarily a consumer coffee roaster. It is a private label manufacturer and contract roa...
Small Batch Coffee Roasters is a Brighton and Hove specialty coffee business with a roastery in Portslade and a flagship...
Smith Street Coffee roasts in Sheffield from Unit 1 at Hope Works on Sussex Road, where it also runs a cafe open to visi...
Source Climate Change Coffee is a Yorkshire-based roaster founded by Cristina Talens, who built a career in ethical trad...
Square Mile Coffee Roasters was founded in 2008 in East London by James Hoffmann and Anette Moldvaer, both former World ...
Stokes Tea and Coffee has been roasting in Lincoln since 1902, now in its fourth generation under managing director Nick...
Stow Town Coffee has been roasting in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, since 2010. The site describes the business as ...
Swan Song Coffee is a solo-operated speciality micro-roastery in Salford, Manchester, founded in 2018 by Josh Wilson and...
Symposium Coffee is a small Norwich roastery run by Steven and his wife Catriona from Unit 21C on the Hellesdon Park Ind...
Terrone is a speciality coffee roastery based in Tottenham, North London, founded in 2011 with a specific argument to ma...
The Coffee Factory is a family run roastery on the Devon and Dorset border, founded by Danny and Justine after they retu...
The Isle of Wight Espresso Company is the wholesale and equipment arm of Island Roasted, a roastery and cafe operation b...
The Milk Shed is a specialty coffee roastery and cafe bar in Brighton, working from a building that was originally a dai...
The Roastery at Bella Barista is the in-house roasting arm of Bella Barista, a Wellingborough-based espresso machine ret...
Thomsons is Scotland's oldest coffee roaster, founded in Edinburgh in 1841 by David Thomson before relocating to Glasgow...
Two Chimps Coffee is a specialty roaster based in Oakham, Rutland, founded in 2016 by Andy and Laura. The business is bu...
Union was founded in 2001 in east London by Steven Macatonia and Jeremy Torz, two scientists who encountered the America...
Volcano Coffee Works was founded in West Dulwich by New Zealand-born chef Kurt Stewart, who started by serving espresso ...
Voyager Coffee is a specialty roastery on the edge of Dartmoor, working from an industrial unit on Mardle Way Business P...
Well Roasted Coffee is an independent micro roastery based at Eckland Lodge Business Park near Market Harborough, on the...
White Rose Coffee Roasters operates from Halifax in West Yorkshire and carries the Made in Yorkshire mark. Head roaster ...
Workhouse Coffee Company is a Reading-based speciality roaster led by head roaster Greg Costello, who sources and roasts...
Wrexham Bean Co. was founded on Christmas Day 2021 by James and Rich, who saw that Wrexham had no specialty roastery of ...
Yallah Coffee is a single origin specialty roaster based in Cornwall with a stated mission to put honesty and social res...
York Coffee Emporium has roasted in York since 2010, with a small dedicated team handling roasting, blending and packing...