Origin Coffee Roasters

North London


This little cafe just before the entrance to the British Library piazza scores highly on design but even more on its coffee. One of just three London outlets from specialist coffee roaster Origin, whose raison d'être is provenance and processing, it offers regularly changing feature coffees and a selection of espresso-based concoctions and filter options.


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