Serving the same top-quality coffee and beans and food as their original café on Monmouth Street, the Borough Market location is handy if you happen to be in the area. However, the mad market crowd here means the place is not as nice as the charming closeness of the original location.

I imbibe so much coffee that I think myself something of a connoisseur - I doubt this is quite true, but I have perfected the art of stove top Italian coffee at home and have stopped pretending Starbucks serves anything remotely resembling the drink. All that aside, I drink lots of it - so when I taste a good cup it comes as such a delightful surprise and Monmouth Coffee is one such beautiful shock.

Fittingly situated in London’s Food World Extravaganza region aka Borough Market, I defy Monmouth virgins and veterans alike to walk past without sampling a cup. The hot dark stuff is aromatic and strong without bitterness - I opted for my favourite, a flat white and promptly was transported to caffeine heaven.

The setting is divine, also. A world away from Starbucks (as so many qypers before me have acknowledged) you can almost taste the history of this place and perched up on a stool surveying the bread and jam station you feel you never wish to order a paper-tasting Grande extra hot shot anything, from anyone in a uniform, ever again.

Monmouth’s coffee is among the best (and certainly the most celebrated) in London. However, I ain’t waitin’ for it at their Borough Market location on a Saturday. Those long queues are a real turn off for me but a true testament to how wonderful their coffee is. I prefer their Monmouth Street location. Of course the queues are pretty dreadful there as well. But, it is good, good coffee. And I love their filter method!

This was some of the best coffee I have found in London

The most significant and pleasant aspect of Monmouth is that they locally roast their coffee beans, something almost no one does. They have relationships with all the coffee brokers so that they can buy green beans in very small batches and roast them fresh.

The only downside about Monmouth is when for some reason you have to buy beans elsewhere--it is a rude awakening.

I will go across London to Seven Dials just to pick up a bag of their coffee beans. Once I am there I don't want to leave cuz the vibe is so good and the smell is intoxicating.

It's small, a very small space, with a few wooden alcoves at the back, where you can squeeze in with the other customers.
However, the real reason that I like Monmouth Coffee Company is that it's a one-off independent cafe in a city that has been carpet-bombed with Starbucks outlets.

Monmouth coffee shop is a wonder of a place, you'll never get a better coffee experience than this. open fronted and merging with the culinary joys of burrough market, sit at their large rustic table, centred with a basket full of crusty french bread and large pots of fresh homemade jams and feel as if you are at home in the kitchen. embrace the general chitter chatter and calls of the market which create a bustling and warm atmosphere in which to sip the ultimate cup of coffee. part of the excitement is that you can select your coffee bean from a choice of countries ranging from central and south america through to asia and africa, all coffee crops fairly traded from organic and sustainable farms that the monmouth co regularly visits: the embodiement of an ethical cup. even the milk deserves special attention; rich and creamy in taste and consistency, sourced from an organic farm in devon. the friendly and knowledgeable staff will assit you if you have a particular coffee taste in mind, personally i went for a brazilian- smooth and fruity- accompanied by a deliciously rich monmouth organic chocolate truffle. they also sell a number of pastries from the french patisserie 'paul'. i go back time after time. there is a second monmouth coffee shop on monmouth street, near covent garden. you can also have beans ground to take home.

There is another Monmouth Coffee Company in the Market itself, which is more like a market stall, great for a quick takeaway. This main one on the corner is open, bustling and makes you realise just how generic the likes of Starbucks and Costa have become; there really is no comparisn.

They is also do bread and jam on the long central wooden table (help yourself and pay a flat fee), and cakes and biscuits laid out on a counter. In the summer the jam and cakes attracted quite a few wasps which the staff didn't seem to care about which put me off having anything to eat here, but then that's not why you come here anyway.

One other thing to bear in mind, the double espresso really is the strongest coffee I have ever had, in fact I think that applies to all their coffee. You have been warned!