COFFI

Nat and Mike, who cut their coffee teeth running a shop in Bucharest, opened COFFI in late 2021 on Pilgrim Street with only eight pounds left in the bank between them. The space occupies a restored Grade II listed coach house in the Georgian Quarter, exposed brickwork and a long communal table giving it an understated, quietly confident feel.

Rather than settling on one house roaster, beans rotate regularly through respected European names like Berlin's Five Elephant and London's Assembly, keeping something new on the menu at most visits. What started as a shoestring operation has grown into one of the UK's more widely recognized specialty addresses, an essential stop on any Liverpool coffee hop.