Cadre is a small roastery in Belfast, “a roastery, not a brand”. It opened in 2024 with a single drum roaster and a short list of growers in Huila and Oromia. Trips to Colombia and Kenya in 2025 turned into long-term relationships with five producing partners across three origins. It buys direct from producers it knows by name.
Roast days are Tuesday and Thursday. Coffee is roasted to order and ships within forty-eight hours. Subscriptions followed in 2026, on a custom system, and they can be paused, skipped, swapped or prepaid.
The range is sorted by style into four collections. Steadfast is the daily drinker, with chocolate, nuts and brown sugar, for drinking white or black. Stronghold is bright, fruity and floral, aimed at black coffee, from espresso and short black to filter. Profound covers experimental processing and anaerobic ferments, and Restful is the decaf. Among the lots are two Chiroso coffees from Heiner Lasso, one natural and one washed, a thermal-shock Sidra from Oporapa in Huila and a sugarcane decaf from Colombia.
Cadre buys from Sergio Darío Aranda Gómez of Finca Anaya, a 4.5-hectare farm in Acevedo, Huila, at 1,600 metres, which his family has looked after for three decades. Sergio evaluates every lot himself, refining fermentation, drying and grading, and the farm grows Bourbon Rosado, Pacamara, geisha, Castillo, Variedad Colombia and Bourbon Rojo.
Partner cafés
- Nine Hostages Coffee Derry
Coffee on the shelf
- Peach
- Orange blossom
- Chocolate orange
- Hazelnuts
- Passion fruit
- Mango
- Bergamot tea
- Plum
- Cognac
- Dark fruits
- Chocolate
- Hazelnut
- Citrus
- Red berries
- Nutty
- Chocolate
Photograph: Cadre