Workshop Coffee Co.

 

Workshop Coffee Co. (previously St Ali) is a coffee bar, cafe, roastery and all round lovely place to sit, sip and relax. It is the sister cafe of a much-loved Melbourne coffee shop whose owners looked considerably farther a field when choosing the location of their second branch, finally deciding on trendy Farringdon, just a mere 10,000 miles away. Open seven days a week this place is so much more than a local coffee shop. The menu has the variety to please everyone from the caffeine connoisseur to the foodie families and should even satisfy the hunger of the hungover Sunday morning visitors. The mouth-watering menu has lots of hearty breakfast specials like the house braised beans and with salted ricotta, lemon and mint truffled mascarpone. Or the French toast with Bramley lemon curd mascarpone, caramelised cardamom apples and walnuts. Lunch is equally as alluring with Asian inspired tacos, juicy hamburgers and big and bold salads. The service is good, and seems really genuine. The decor is very Clerkenwell, exposed brick walls lots of lovely wood, its like a cosy urban warehouse filled with the smell of freshly roasting coffee beans.