Coffee, cardamom, and breakfast worth getting up for.
A small room on Bell Lane. Rotating single origins on espresso, Arabic qahwa made properly, and a breakfast menu that owes more to Beirut than to London.
All of it, on the page.
Every dish, every price, every allergen note — as text you can read on a phone with one hand, not a PDF you have to pinch at.
Read the full menuTwo people, one espresso machine, since 2021.
Rana grew up with a rakwa on the stove every morning in Tripoli. Sam spent eight years pulling shots in Melbourne. Qahwa & Co is what happens when those two habits share a counter.
We roast nothing ourselves. We buy from three roasters we actually know, rotate the espresso every few weeks, and tell you what is in the hopper if you ask.
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The cardamom latte is the only reason I get off at Liverpool Street instead of London Bridge. Been coming for two years.
Asked about the espresso and got a five-minute answer I did not entirely follow, but the coffee was genuinely excellent and that is the point.
Best shakshuka in E1 and I have made it my business to check. Get there before eleven at the weekend.