Rosslyn Coffee, Queen Victoria Street
You stand, you drink, and you read the financial pages they pin to the walls every day.2
Why go
Oliver Feldman put the room's whole proposition in one line for The Infatuation: Rosslyn Coffee on the corner of Queen Victoria Street in the City isn't somewhere you're going to want to linger for long. It's the kind of place you're going to stand and drink while reading the financial pages that they pin to the walls every day.
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The coffee has the standing to back it. In June 2026 Rosslyn was named 12th in Europe's 100 Best Coffee Shops and the highest-ranked English shop on that list. That ranking is for the group, which Time Out counts at nine outlets in the City.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: an espresso, standing. This counter is built for it.2
- Order: off the off-menu list, which this site publishes separately from the house menu.3
- Avoid: arriving with a laptop and an afternoon to fill.2
What locals & experts say
- Oliver Feldman, The Infatuation, January 2020:
Yes, it might be cramped.
He means it as a description rather than a complaint.2 - Leonie Cooper, Time Out, June 2026: Rosslyn
was named 12th overall in Europe in the top 100, but was the highest ranking English
coffee shop.1 - Scope: that ranking belongs to the group, not to this counter.
Good to know
- Where: 78 Queen Victoria Street EC4N 4SJ, on the corner. Mansion House is two minutes.
- Hours: City hours. Come on a weekday morning, and note that Sunday is not a trading day.
- Sites: nine in the City, per Time Out, including Fenchurch Street, London Wall, the Royal Exchange and Cannon Street. This is the founding one.1
Verdict
should-visit — The counter Rosslyn started with, on the corner of Queen Victoria Street, and the group it grew into was named 12th in Europe's 100 Best Coffee Shops in June 2026, the highest-ranked English shop on that list. That ranking covers nine City outlets rather than this one door, which is worth being straight about. What is specific to this room is Oliver Feldman's description for The Infatuation, and it is the most useful sentence anybody has written about it: you are not going to linger, you stand and drink while reading the financial pages they pin to the walls every day. Cramped, quick, very good, and shut at the weekend in a district that empties. It stays a rung off the top because the only door-scoped account of it is six years old.