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Crowning London’s best flat white is a difficult task indeed. There are not just so many coffee shops but so many different beans, roasts, tastes, preferences – it’s a lot to take into consideration and grapple with.
Your best bet for a flat white is almost certainly an independent coffee shop (find the capital’s 25 best here), but a refined little indie joint isn’t always to-hand. What about the big chains, your Prets, Gail’s Bakeries, Neros and so on that are available all over London? Which of those does the best flat white?
To sort out London’s high-street flat white coffees, we sent our in-house coffee head India Lawrence to taste them all, putting the results in a matrix ranging from strong to weak and bitter to sweet (and including the prices).
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India’s got Redemption as ‘strongest’, Blank Street as ‘weakest’, Ole & Steen as the ‘sweetest’ and Pret and Greggs tied for ‘bitterest’. Taste ‘em for yourself and let us know what you think (and peep the comments for shout-outs to the city’s best indie coffee shops).
London’s best independent coffee shops, as chosen by an expert.
Plus: Time Out’s 21 best cafés in London
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