Visiting a roastery is the best way to understand coffee. You can see the raw green beans, watch them transform in the roaster, and taste the finished product while it is still warm. The smell alone is worth the trip.
These 91 roasters combine a public space with some form of training or educational offering. That might be a formal tour programme, regular cupping sessions, brew workshops, or simply a cafe where staff are happy to explain what is happening behind the scenes.
If you are planning a roastery visit, call or email ahead. Some run scheduled tours on specific days. Others are happy to show you around whenever it is quiet. Weekend mornings tend to be the best time, when the roaster is running but the cafe is not yet packed.
200 Degrees started in 2012 in Nottingham, three blokes and an old roaster in a garage. They now operate from Heston Hou...
Alfie & Co Coffee Roasters is a family roastery in Killearn, Stirlingshire, founded in 2014 by Paul Equi and named after...
Phil and a small team run this independent, family-owned specialty roaster from a unit at Manor Farm in Peppard Common, ...
Artisan Roast has been roasting specialty coffee in Edinburgh since 2007, one of Scotland's longest standing independent...
Baristocracy was founded in North Shields, Tyne and Wear in 2017 by Alex Forsyth and Kate Hudson, a family business shap...
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 ...
Bella Barista has been trading since 1998 from its base in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, operating as both one of th...
Big Dog Coffee Company is a specialty coffee roastery based in the Caerphilly Borough of South Wales. The team roasts on...
Bohemia Roasts is a micro coffee roastery and shop in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, trading from 9 Cross Keys Mews (PE19 2AR...
Brazier Coffee Roasters was founded in 2015 by Tom and Claire Brazier, who developed the idea while in Australia and tra...
Campbell & Syme was founded in 2012 by Joe Syme after a trip to Portland, Oregon, where the city's coffee scene, and Stu...
Campervan Coffee Co was established in 2015 by a founder who, after travelling Europe and North Africa with his wife in ...
Caravan Coffee Roasters opened on Exmouth Market in early 2010, founded by Laura Harper-Hinton, Miles Kirby and Chris Am...
Carnival Coffee Roasters operates from a workshop in Penge, South East London, roasting speciality coffee and selling it...
Cartwheel Coffee Roasters is one of the longer-running independent roasteries in Nottingham, with a roastery and cafe in...
Carve Coffee Roasters is a Dorset roastery and cafe group based in Swanage, with the roastery on the Prospect Business P...
Cast Iron Coffee Roasters is a family-run speciality roastery and coffee shop based at Units 11 and 12 The Mill, Stane S...
Chapel Street Coffee Company is a family-run roastery in Llangollen, North Wales, working in the shadow of Castell Dinas...
Climpson & Sons has been part of the Broadway Market scene in Hackney since 2002, when founder Ian Burgess moved from a ...
Coaltown Coffee Roasters is a speciality roaster based in Ammanford, a former anthracite mining town in Carmarthenshire,...
Coffi Dre is a bilingual Welsh and English speciality coffee roaster based in Caernarfon, Gwynedd. Coffees are roasted l...
Copper Coffee Roasters is a speciality coffee roastery and cafe based at Bramley Hedge Farm in Cobham, Surrey. The roast...
Crema the Crop is an independent roastery and coffee shop based on the Axminster Carpets Estate, Woodmead Road, Axminste...
Crosby Coffee was founded in Liverpool in 2014 by Jack Foster, who started roasting at home and selling at local markets...
Curious Roo is a specialty coffee roaster and wholesale supplier based at 11 Power Road, Chiswick, west London. Founders...
Curve Coffee Roasters was founded in 2016 by Tereza and Jon, who relocated from London to the Margate coast with a secon...
Horsebox Coffee Co was founded in May 2015 by Emily, who returned to South Oxfordshire after twenty years in London spec...
Dear Green Coffee Roasters was founded in Glasgow in 2011 by one woman with a single roaster. The name comes from Dear G...
Drury Tea & Coffee was founded in London in 1936 by three Italian brothers, beginning as a tea blender before turning to...
EDGE Tea & Coffee is a third-generation, family-run roastery near Arundel in West Sussex, founded in 1981 by Frank Edgcu...
Exchange Coffee Co. is a Lancashire roaster and tea merchant with coffee houses and roasting shops across Blackburn, Cli...
Founded in 1819 in the Cumbrian market town of Kendal, Farrer's is one of the UK's longest-standing tea and coffee merch...
Fire & Flow is a Cotswolds speciality coffee roaster founded by childhood friends Callum and Phil with Phil's wife Char....
Firebird Coffee Company is a small batch speciality roastery based at 71 to 75 Shelton Street in central London, founded...
The Flat Cap Coffee Roasting Company was founded in 2018 by Mark and Alex, a husband and wife team based in rural Wiltsh...
Frazer's Coffee Roasters was founded in Sheffield in 2014, roasting from the Arundel Coach House on Arundel Street in th...
Fuel and Fable is a speciality coffee roastery and shop in Christchurch, Dorset, built around the founder's twin loves o...
Grain and Grind started roasting in 2018 after installing a roaster inside one of their existing Scottish coffee shops, ...
Hard Lines Coffee is a Cardiff-based speciality coffee roaster celebrating its tenth year in 2026. The roastery sits at ...
Hayling Island Coffee Society (HICS) is a small speciality roastery on Hayling Island in Hampshire, founded and run by A...
HEJ Coffee, pronounced 'hey' after the Swedish word for hello, was founded by Jeremy and Mathew after Jeremy's coffee to...
Herbert and Ward is a long-established coffee and tea business based in Rochester, Kent, founded in 1929 by Messrs Herbe...
Hot Numbers Coffee is a Cambridgeshire roastery and cafe business now marking 15 years of trading. The roastery sits at ...
Indigo Valley has been roasting since 2005, when it set out to bring together Fairtrade and speciality grade coffee at a...
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...
Jericho Coffee Traders started in Oxford in 2009 when founders James and Lizzie bought a turquoise Vespa tuk-tuk and dec...
Joe Black Coffee and Tea is a Liverpool roaster with roots going back to 1950, when the business traded as Bellews and C...
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...
Kontext Coffee Company is a specialty roastery on the Monmouthshire and Herefordshire border, founded by Katja Klein aft...
Limini Coffee is a specialty roastery based at Luddite Way Business Park in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, founded in 2008...
Lindfield Coffee Works was founded in 2015 in Lindfield, West Sussex and has grown into a multi-site operation with a fl...
Machina Coffee is an Edinburgh roaster founded by Steve Glencross, who moved from the music industry and spent around tw...
Maison Dieu Coffee Roasters is based in the Old Sonoco building on Montrose Street, Brechin, and has been operating Brec...
Method Roastery works from under the railway arches near Worcester Foregate Street station, where the roastery, café and...
Modern Standard Coffee is a Scottish speciality roaster founded by Lynsey Harley, with a roastery at 38 Cavendish Way, G...
Moonroast Coffee roasts at Chilton Manor Farm in the Candover Valley, Hampshire, supplying delis, farm shops and hospita...
New Ground Coffee is an Oxford-based B Corp roastery built around a social mission: helping people leaving prison find w...
North Star Coffee Roasters was founded in 2013 by Holly and Alex Kragiopoulos, after conversations with small-scale prod...
Old Spike Roastery was founded in Peckham in 2015 by two childhood friends, with a mission to roast specialty coffee whi...
Origin Coffee is a Cornwall-based specialty roaster with the roastery in Porthleven and coffee shops in Bristol, London ...
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,...
Quarter Horse Coffee is an independent roaster based in the West Midlands. The business was founded in 2012 in Oxford an...
Redemption Roasters is a London coffee company with a social mission at its core: training people leaving prison with ba...
Relish Coffee is a small roaster based in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear. The team roast their own beans on site and sell th...
Rise & Grind Roastery is a Scottish speciality roaster operating from 104 Abercorn Street, Glasgow G53 7EE, with coffee ...
Roost Coffee and Roastery operates from two sites in Malton, North Yorkshire. The espresso bar sits in Talbot Yard, a Gr...
Second City Coffee is a Manchester-rooted roastery and coffee house, with a tight-knit team operating from Quayside in W...
Small Batch Coffee Roasters is a Brighton and Hove specialty coffee business with a roastery in Portslade and a flagship...
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 ...
The Roastery at Tate is a specialty coffee operation based within the grounds of Tate Britain in London. Started in 2011...
The Coffee Counter is a Leicester roastery selling single origins and blends through its online shop, with a cafe also o...
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...
Missing Bean opened in Oxford in 2009 as the city centre's first independently owned coffee shop. Roasting began in 2014...
The Roasting Shed began with the founders roasting coffee in their garden shed, driven by a love of drinking and sharing...
Thomsons is Scotland's oldest coffee roaster, founded in Edinburgh in 1841 by David Thomson before relocating to Glasgow...
Three Hills Coffee roasts in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, where a dedicated roastery and SCA-accredited barista trai...
Tropic Coffee has been roasting in King's Lynn, Norfolk since 1983, founded by Martin Sanctuary and now joined by his so...
Two Chimps Coffee is a specialty roaster based in Oakham, Rutland, founded in 2016 by Andy and Laura. The business is bu...
Tynemouth Coffee Company was founded in 2009 by Paul Thompson on the North East coast of England, drawing on his 30-plus...
Viento Coffee Company is a micro-roastery based in Watford, Hertfordshire, with two cafes at 157 St Albans Road, Watford...
Workshop Coffee is a London specialty roaster running an integrated model across sourcing, roasting, cafe operations, wh...
Yellow Bourbon Coffee Roasters is a roastery and coffee shop on Angel Street in Northampton's Cultural Quarter. Owner St...