London · United Kingdom
Notes Coffee Roasters
Notes Coffee Roasters is one of 14 London roasters tracked on day9, in East London.
Since 2008 · Robert Robinson, Fabio Ferreira
Overview
Notes was started in 2008 in Victoria, central London, when Robert Robinson — running a coffee cart at Strutton Ground — was joined by Brazilian-born Fabio Ferreira, whose father had grown up on a coffee farm. Ferreira leads sourcing and roasting; Robinson leads operations. The company pioneered the day-to-night specialty model in London, blurring boutique café into wine bar and bistro across roughly eleven central-London venues including The Gherkin, Trafalgar Square, Bank, Moorgate, King's Cross, Bond Street and Canary Wharf, before being acquired by hospitality group WSH in November 2022.
Known for
- Day-to-night model — third-wave coffee in the morning, wine and espresso martinis at night — pioneered shortly after the original Trafalgar Square site opened
- Direct-trade sourcing led by co-founder Fabio Ferreira since 2010
- Wholesale roastery in East London, scaling to 600 tonnes annual capacity in 2024 on a Brambati BR60 with a Pentavac packaging line
- Wholesale clients include Selfridges, Searcys, Colicci and CH&CO
- Acquired by UK hospitality group WSH in November 2022; both founders continue to lead the business
Why it matters
One of the more commercially successful London specialty operators — proved that the day-to-night hospitality model could scale a serious coffee programme to eleven prime central-London locations and a wholesale roastery without diluting the bean.
Production
- head roaster
- Fabio Ferreira
- roaster machine
- Brambati BR60
- roastery location
- East London
- annual volume tonnes
- 600
Café
This roaster operates a café.