92 Degrees

Five friends from the software industry, John Keefe, Jack Brewitt, Andy Cooper, Heidi Duff, and Chris Barker, started 92 Degrees after John came back from a run of trips through San Francisco, Tokyo, Copenhagen, and London newly obsessed with what specialty coffee could be. None of them had run a cafe before; they bought their first roaster in September 2014 and taught themselves importing, cupping, and roasting from a small meeting room before opening their first shop in Liverpool in January 2015.

The name comes straight from the craft, 92 degrees Celsius being the optimum water temperature for pulling espresso, a reminder built into the brand from day one. The company has since grown to more than twenty locations across the North West and Scotland, with this John Dalton Street address serving as one of several current Manchester counters and a roastery still based on Liverpool's waterfront.