Coffee Bay Roastery

london has more specialty roasters than most cities know what to do with, which makes it easier to overlook the ones operating quietly outside the central postcodes. coffee bay roastery sits in tolworth, out on red lion road in a business park that doesn't announce itself as a destination, and that's partly the point. this is roastery infrastructure, the kind of place where the coffee is the whole reason you're there, not a side note to a location. if you're making the trip out to surbiton, you're coming specifically for what's being roasted here, not for the postcode. the industrial setting on red lion road is honest about what this place actually does. a bag of freshly roasted beans to take home is the most straightforward reason to visit.