The latest addition to this burgeoning coffee-as-lifestyle-brand packs some serious gear for the espresso heads — a Slayer machine for fine-tuning shots and something called an Ubermilk that steams of its own accord — into a space that, definitely pre-pandemic and increasingly as the world emerges, would otherwise be given over to high-volume homogeneity.

A social enterprise training people who face barriers to employment in speciality coffee, this space at UCL’s architecture building is Well Grounded’s first permanent cafe operation. With five filter coffee methods on offer, quality beans from Caravan, and batch brew starting at £1.30 a cup, it’s a cafe that focusses on excellence while firmly in tune with the ethos that brought it to life.

A new barista-owned coffee shop for Haggerston, Batch Baby is run by Tom Sixsmith and Saskia Blum. With vintage furniture and run out of the 1970s Rose Lipman Building, it’s a refreshing diversion, if not total departure from the Airspace vibe of many London shops; a menu that balances multi-roaster filter coffee with builder’s tea does it all with aplomb.

One of London’s best cafes adds its third, as Rosslyn opens its biggest space yet at the bottom of Tower 42. All of the properties that make it such a hit — mindfully prepared milk drinks and americanos; impeccably warm service; frozen fancy coffee for nerds and the curious — are present and correct.