Naughty Monkey Coffee

naughty monkey coffee roasts its own beans, and that single fact changes everything about what ends up in your cup. most places in essex at this scale are buying in from someone else's roastery and hoping you don't notice. this one doesn't. operating out of tartan close in colchester, it sits a short drive from the clacton-on-sea coast, which makes it a genuinely useful stop if you're heading out toward the water or coming back from it. the standing here isn't accidental, it reflects a business that took the harder path, controlling the roast rather than outsourcing the most important part of the process. if you want to know what a place is actually about, look at whether they roast. these people do.