Current ranking based on review analysis and technical signals.
At a glance
| # | Place | Score | Reviews | Stands out for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drury Covent Garden | Cafe & Brunch | ⭐ 9.7 | 3 988 | Editors' pick |
| 2 | Prufrock Coffee | ⭐ 9.3 | 2 702 | — |
| 3 | Kaffeine | ⭐ 9.3 | 2 251 | — |
| 4 | WatchHouse Marylebone | ⭐ 9.3 | 1 877 | — |
| 5 | Qima Café and Pâtisserie – Fitzrovia | ⭐ 9.1 | 1 434 | — |
| 6 | Rosslyn Coffee Queen Victoria Street | ⭐ 9.7 | 1 275 | — |
| 7 | Hideaway Coffee House | ⭐ 9.5 | 1 269 | — |
| 8 | WatchHouse Hanover | ⭐ 9.1 | 1 236 | — |
| 9 | Blank Street Coffee | ⭐ 9.5 | 1 160 | — |
| 10 | WatchHouse Seven Dials | ⭐ 9.1 | 1 144 | — |
Highlights
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Editors' pick:
Drury Covent Garden | Cafe & Brunch
Full ranking
1. Drury Covent Garden | Cafe & Brunch · ⭐ 9.7
(3988 reviews)
+5 photos
188-189 Drury Ln, London WC2B 5QD, United Kingdom
A café in the middle of Covent Garden that deliberately has no Wi-Fi is either an oversight or a position. Drury 188-189 is firmly the secon…
2. Prufrock Coffee · ⭐ 9.3
(2702 reviews)
+5 photos
23-25 Leather Ln, London EC1N 7TE, United Kingdom
Ask a London barista where they learned the job and there is a fair chance the answer is a basement under a Clerkenwell market street. Prufr…
«Excellent cafe near Farringdon . Heard of this place from James Hoffmann channel as they s…»
3. Kaffeine · ⭐ 9.3
(2251 reviews)
+5 photos
66 Great Titchfield St., London W1W 7QJ, United Kingdom
When Kaffeine opened in Fitzrovia in 2009, London did not really have a speciality coffee scene to belong to — it had a handful of people tr…
4. WatchHouse Marylebone · ⭐ 9.3
(1877 reviews)
+5 photos
32-34 New Cavendish St, London W1G 8UE, United Kingdom
Every coffee chain eventually has to answer the same question: whose coffee is this, really. WatchHouse answers it with a railway arch in Be…
5. Qima Café and Pâtisserie – Fitzrovia · ⭐ 9.1
(1434 reviews)
+5 photos
21 Warren St, London W1T 5LT, United Kingdom
Almost every café buys its coffee. Qima grows it. The same company works with smallholder farmers in Yemen, guides the processing, roasts th…
6. Rosslyn Coffee Queen Victoria Street · ⭐ 9.7
(1275 reviews)
+5 photos
78 Queen Victoria St, London EC4N 4SJ, United Kingdom
Most coffee bars in the Square Mile live off footfall. Rosslyn did the opposite. It opened here in 2018 as a narrow wedge of a room with alm…
7. Hideaway Coffee House · ⭐ 9.5
(1269 reviews)
+5 photos
7 Farrier's Psge, London W1D 7DP, United Kingdom
Soho is one of the loudest square kilometres in Britain, and Hideaway Coffee House is thirty seconds away from all of it. The café sits in a…
8. WatchHouse Hanover · ⭐ 9.1
(1236 reviews)
+5 photos
2-3, Medici Court, London W1S 1BR, United Kingdom
Every group has one site where it stops playing safe. For WatchHouse that site is Hanover — the only House in the company where you can orde…
9. Blank Street Coffee · ⭐ 9.5
(1160 reviews)
+5 photos
110 New Oxford St, London WC1A 1HD, United Kingdom
Blank Street is not trying to be anyone's favourite independent, and pretending otherwise would miss what it does well. It began as a batter…
10. WatchHouse Seven Dials · ⭐ 9.1
(1144 reviews)
+5 photos
7 Upper St Martin's Ln, London WC2H 9DL, United Kingdom
Most specialty coffee in London stops at a pastry. WatchHouse Seven Dials does not: it is a brunch house on two floors, with a kitchen behin…
Questions & answers
Which place tops the ranking? Drury Covent Garden | Cafe & Brunch — score 9.7/10 (Editors' pick).
How many places are in the list and how were they chosen? The selection includes 10 places chosen by our editors based on rating and reviews.
What is the average rating in the top? 9.4/10 — average score of 10 places in the list.
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