Rosslyn Coffee was established in 2018 by Mat Russell and James Hennebry, from Australia and Ireland, as a collection of high-volume specialty coffee shops in the City of London. It combines the standards and attention to detail of the Australian café with the warmth of the Irish pub, summed up as “we are nice to people and we make great coffee”, and its service is meant to be “prompt, never rushed”. The name comes from Rosslyn Street in West Melbourne, where Hennebry first learned to make coffee. There are now ten Rosslyn coffee shops across the Square Mile, among them the original near the Financial Times headquarters and shops at Tower 42, the Royal Exchange, Leadenhall Market, Ludgate Circus and the Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street stations.

Rosslyn does not roast. Origin Coffee Roasters in Cornwall supplies the coffee, delivered in tins, which keeps more than 32,000 coffee bags a year out of landfill; The Estate Dairy in Somerset delivers milk in reusable 20-litre buckets, Mörk makes the hot chocolate, Canton Tea the tea and Melisa Dora the handmade ceramics. Rosslyn selects seasonal coffees from around the world to suit particular drinks and sells four under its own label for home brewing: a blend roasted for milk, a single origin roasted for black, a single origin roasted for filter, and a Financial Times special edition called the Daily Scoop. The Ludgate Circus coffee shop also keeps an off-menu list of frozen rare coffees from roasters such as Monogram, Leaves and Prodigal, served by the cup and ordered at the bar.

The company is a Living Wage employer; the 2022 Living Wage was launched at Rosslyn London Wall by the Mayor of London. It was named Europe’s Best Independent Café in 2022, won a Living Wage Champion Award in 2023, and in 2026 placed twelfth in Europe’s 100 Best Coffee Shops and first in England.

Locations

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  1. Rosslyn Queen Victoria Street78 Queen Victoria Street, City of London EC4N 4SJCity of LondonOpen in Google Maps
  2. Rosslyn London Wall118 London Wall, London EC2Y 5JACity of LondonOpen in Google Maps
  3. Rosslyn Tower 4225 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1HQCity of LondonOpen in Google Maps
  4. Rosslyn Royal Exchange21 Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LPCity of LondonOpen in Google Maps
  5. Rosslyn Leadenhall Market15-18 Lime Street, London EC3M 7ANCity of LondonOpen in Google Maps
  6. Rosslyn Cannon Street116 Cannon Street, London EC4N 6ASCity of LondonOpen in Google Maps
  7. Rosslyn Fenchurch St Station60 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 4ADCity of LondonOpen in Google Maps
  8. Rosslyn Ludgate Circus2-9 Ludgate Circus, London EC4A 2AFCity of LondonOpen in Google Maps
  9. Rosslyn CheapsideUnit 1A, 49 Cheapside, London EC2V 6ATCity of LondonOpen in Google Maps
  10. Rosslyn Liverpool St Station74-75 Old Broad Street, London EC2M 1QTCity of London

Coffee on the shelf

  • Origin Coffee supplies all the coffee, delivered in tins from Cornwall

Photograph: Lauren Kallen for Rosslyn Coffee