Barista & Co. Coffee

the new forest has a strange relationship with coffee. towns like lyndhurst pull in day-trippers who want a flat white before the ponies and the heather, and most places serving it lean toward safe and forgettable. ringwood does something different. on market place, barista & co roasts its own beans and treats that as the whole point, not a footnote on the menu. you notice it in how the espresso holds its body under milk, how a filter coffee doesn't need three sugars to taste like something. this is a working roastery that happens to have a counter, not a cafe that bought a bag of beans and called it specialty. stop in before ten on a saturday, order a flat white, and take it slow at one of the tables on market place.