day9.coffee day9

Liverpool · United Kingdom

Neighbourhood Coffee Roasters

Neighbourhood Coffee Roasters roasts in Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

Since 2014 · Chris Holloway, Ed Peck

Instagram

Overview

Chris Holloway and Ed Peck — both ex-Schluter green coffee importers (the African coffee specialists since absorbed into Olam) — founded Neighbourhood Coffee in 2014 as Liverpool's first specialty coffee roastery, working initially out of a railway arch north of the city centre on a 15kg Giesen and explicitly leaning into approachability over pretension. By 2020 the operation had outgrown the railway arch and moved to the Sandon Industrial Estate near Liverpool's docks; in 2022 a 60kg Giesen was added alongside the original 15kg, and the company has since trained over 1,500 baristas and racked up 30 Great Taste Awards.

Known for

  • Liverpool's first specialty coffee roastery (since 2014)
  • Founders Chris Holloway and Ed Peck — both ex-Schluter green coffee traders
  • 15kg Giesen (since 2014) plus 60kg Giesen added 2022
  • 30 Great Taste Awards and Feefo Trusted Service Platinum Award
  • Trained 1,500+ baristas since 2014
  • Framework Coffee cafe at Mann Island (Pier Head/Albert Dock area)

Why it matters

Neighbourhood is structurally unusual — a specialty roaster founded by two career green-coffee traders rather than baristas-turned-roasters — and it built Liverpool's third-wave scene from zero in a city whose coffee history was historically about importing rather than drinking specialty.

Production

head roaster
Luke Hall
roaster machine
15kg Giesen (since 2014) + 60kg Giesen (added 2022); Ikawa for sample roasting
filter equipment
Hario V60
roastery location
Unit 22 The Sandon Estate, Sandon Way, Liverpool L5 9YN (since 2020); previous railway arch north of Liverpool city centre 2014-2020

Café

Framework Coffee, Mann Island, Central Liverpool (between Pier Head & Albert Dock); roastery itself has training suite, no cafe footprint

Recognitions

  • 30 Great Taste Awards
  • Feefo Trusted Service Platinum Award
  • Runner-up 2016 Best Roaster/Retailer Award
  • Wholesale partners include Ditto Coffee (London/Liverpool/Manchester), Press Bros. Coffee, Lateral/Wylde Coffee, The Climbing Hangar, Caernarfon Castle cafe

Sources

Keep exploring

Previous (A-Z)
Nahat Coffee
Next (A-Z)
New Harvest Coffee Roasters