Jericho Coffee Traders began in 2009, when James and Lizzie saw a Vespa tuk-tuk for sale at the roadside and thought: “That needs a coffee machine on the back of it!” The 49cc trike served coffee at Oxford’s farmers’ markets, and the bright turquoise tuk-tuk still works local events alongside a pedal-powered coffee bike. James, originally from New Zealand, met Lizzie at the Royal College of Music in 2004.

The flagship café is a small room in a historic building in the city centre, with views of University Church and Brasenose College, serving drinks and cakes and selling beans. All the coffee is roasted at Osney Mead, in the Oxford Eco Centre, where a larger café serves cakes and toasties indoors and outside, sells beans and brewing equipment, and has a children’s play area. The coffee school runs there too: a three-hour Coffee Enthusiast Experience for eight people and a two-hour Barista Training for four. In London, its coffee is served at the Royal Albert Hall café on show days. Jericho Coffee Traders is an official partner of the Hall, where James and Lizzie used to go on “coffee dates”.

Its charity coffees give a share of sales to causes including the Oxford mental-health charity Restore, Edge Housing, Oxfordshire Youth, Project Waterfall and British-Ukrainian Aid. The organic Tolima Grande from Colombia was chosen by Raymond Blanc for Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons. In 2026 the student newspaper The Oxford Blue ranked 31 independent coffee shops in the city centre and put Jericho Coffee Traders first.

The current retail range is listed below with the roaster’s own tasting notes.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Jericho Coffee Traders