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Special Guests Coffee

Special Guests Coffee

Roaster · Since 2022

Two-time UK Barista Champion's Marylebone cafe, Sprudgie Awards 2024 finalist.

Paul Ross won the first of his two titles in 2019 with a natural Geisha from Panama's Auromar farm, while Wholesale Manager at Kiss the Hippo. Special Guests, founded in 2022, serves 12 single-origin filters and keeps a frozen archive of earlier lots.

The cafe is one room behind full-height glazing, with a timber bench on the pavement. Three single-dose grinders on the steel back counter each carry a handwritten card naming the farm, variety and process.​⁠​​​⁠⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​⁠​​⁠⁠​​​⁠​⁠​⁠​​​⁠​​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​​⁠​

7 origins+4
On the shelf11 coffees

Roasting

Roasts in-house · Sourced from Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Guatemala and Panama

Beans

In the News

World Coffee Portal · 17 Jun 2026

Turkey’s Cup of Joy to take on London’s specialty coffee heavyweights with Marylebone storeIstanbul's Cup of Joy opens its first overseas shop in Marylebone in July.

In Other Cities

London1 Special Guests Coffee shop on filter

Details

TypeIndependent
Founded2022
FounderPaul Ross
Websitespecialguestscoffee.com
Instagram@specialguestscoffee