CAFÉ ROSA

london has no shortage of specialty coffee, but the density tends to cluster inward, towards shoreditch and soho and the usual suspects. café rosa sits further out, on alexandra drive in surbiton, which puts it in a quieter residential stretch of kingston upon thames where a good local coffee shop means something different than it does in zone one. you're not passing through on your way to a meeting. you're here because you live nearby, or you've made the trip, and either way the place has built enough of a local reputation to justify both. well regarded in the area, consistently. that kind of standing takes time to accumulate and it tends to hold for good reasons. a morning flat white on alexandra drive is a decent reason to come south.