South Downs Roastery

if you're the kind of person who drives out of their way for good coffee, west worldham is the kind of detour that makes sense. blanket street isn't the sort of address you stumble across, you go there with a purpose, and south downs roastery is exactly that kind of destination: a working roastery attached to the source, not a cafe that happens to sell beans. the focus here is on the roasting side of things, which means you're closer to the production end of specialty coffee than you'd be almost anywhere else in hampshire. petersfield is nearby enough to anchor it geographically, but manor farm puts it in a different register entirely. worth timing your visit for a weekday morning when the operation is actually running.