Coffee Port Specialty Roasters

Roasting the coffee themselves is the hard way to do this, and it is what the shop's own name promises. What customers keep ordering is the banana latte, real bits of fruit in it, so the roastery and the register are telling slightly different stories.

Single origin is brewed to order on a V60 or a Chemex, ground on a Mahlkönig, alongside espresso and the house blend. Retail bags print their roast date, which plenty of cafes skip, though the shelf can thin out to decaf and nothing else.

Half a dozen tables of two chairs each sit on dark grey wood-look plank floors under a suspended acoustic-tile ceiling, with a painted soffit picking out the service counter. Hanging faux greenery, a green hedge panel across the counter front and a small white ladder shelf are the decoration, put up with more care than the shell they hang on.