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| Guatemalan Filter at Coleman Coffee Roasters |
I don't write much about coffee. There are plenty of other bloggers in London who have that covered and there's more than one App for that. But I do know what I like and Coleman Coffee Roasters pulls all the right levers for me.
Saturdays would not be same without my morning Piccolo mid-shop at some of my favourite food businesses at Spa Terminus in Bermondsey, South London. Here is the home of Jack Coleman's Roastery and also where, for a few hours on a Saturday, a tiny corner of The Little Bread Pedlar bakery is given over to serving Coleman's South American sourced coffees. I wrote about Coleman Coffee Roasters over a year ago, so click on the link for some background.
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| Ceramics by Anna Frith Hodgson |
So why a return to Coleman Coffee? A few weeks ago there came some teasing photographs on their IG account - a 10 year old Synesso coffee machine, a covetable span of old Umbrian yellow and jade green terrazzo, a beautifully made walnut and terrazzo table and shelf, both topped with lovely earth-toned Anna Frith Hodgson ceramics.
Hundreds of hours of hard graft have gone into paring back the layers of previous uses - fashion shop after bookstore - to the shop's strong bones when it was a delicatessen 40 years ago. Found items are re-purposed and any additions, like coat hooks, have been carefully sourced. Coleman Coffee's shop is now open for business on Lower Marsh SE1 and it feels like it's always been this way.
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| Walnut and Terrazzo Shelf at Coleman Coffee Roasters |
Alongside great coffee there is a lovely Spanish Butter Cake and Greek Papadopoulos biscuits for dunking into a cup of Barry's tea. More substantially there are Staffordshire Oatcakes with fillings such as Smoked Bacon and Tomatoes fried in whey butter, Ham and Coolea, Lancashire Cheese and Hot Pepper Jelly, or you can have them simply spread with jam.
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| Staffordshire Oatcakes at Coleman Coffee Roasters |
It's a small place, seating around 18, but there is a great little courtyard space out back with two big sharing tables where you can sit under a jasmine bower and admire an impressive mulberry tree and a pomegranate tree snaking up the the wall to reach for the sky. Pretty damn perfect.
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| Into the courtyard garden at Coleman Coffee Roasters |
Coleman Coffee Roasters
Shop:
20 Lower Marsh
Waterloo
London SE1
