Redemption Roasters Coal Drops Yard
The Ministry of Justice asked Ted and Max in October 2016 whether they could put a roastery inside a prison, and this arch sells what came out of it.1
Why go
The two founders met at St Andrews, one of them co-founded Black Sheep Coffee, and they were running a wholesale company called Catimor when the approach came.1 The company states its purpose in one line, to reduce reoffending through coffee
, and it now runs eleven London shops off the back of a training programme that starts inside.1 The first shop was on Lamb's Conduit Street; this one is a brick arch on Lower Stable Street in Coal Drops Yard.1 Nobody outside the business has published anything about the roast or this counter, so everything here is the company's own words.
Order this / avoid
- Order: an espresso, and a bag of the house roast if you want to take the programme home with you.1
What locals & experts say
- Nobody has reviewed the coffee. No newspaper, guide or coffee title writes about this counter, and the company's own line is the only claim on the page: its mission is
to reduce reoffending through coffee
.1
Good to know
- Which door this is. Unit 109, Lower Stable Street, in Coal Drops Yard. There are eleven Redemption shops in London.1
- Hours and prices are not published in anything reachable here.
Verdict
could-visit — Ted and Max were running a wholesale coffee company when the Ministry of Justice came to them in October 2016 and asked whether they could put a roastery inside a prison and train the residents to run it. That is the business, in the company's own words: 'to reduce reoffending through coffee', with eleven London shops now selling what the programme produces. This one sits under a Victorian brick arch on Lower Stable Street in Coal Drops Yard, which is the most walked-past coffee real estate in King's Cross. The reason it sits here and not higher is that every word above is the company's, since no newspaper or coffee title reachable in this pass has written about the roast or this branch, and I left the reoffending numbers out rather than repeat a figure nobody here has read at source.