KAHWATI ROASTERS

if you're the kind of person who plans a coffee stop before anything else on the agenda, wembley commercial centre is not the obvious place you'd expect to find it. but kahwati roasters is here, in unit 2/1 of building a, doing specialty coffee properly in a part of london that doesn't trade on café culture the way shoreditch or peckham do. the roasting side of things means you're getting beans that were chosen and processed with some intention, not just sourced from a middleman and forgotten about. that specificity tends to show in the cup. whether you're cutting through ha9 on a weekday or making a deliberate trip out, the cortado on a quiet morning is a reasonable place to start.