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September 2024 – A Summer Project

Over the summer we have been getting started on this year’s big project. Those of you who shop at Spa Terminus may have seen a very discrete sign in the new build of Dockley that says Monmouth Coffee – 2024. Now, whilst we are not entirely sure about the timings, we are sure that we will be moving our current Discovery shop to the Dockley units as soon as we can.

We have looked around for several years now for a location for another shop and have seen many fantastic sites during these years, but they have all been missing the something that we have managed to find right under our noses. We wanted to open a six-day-a-week shop somewhere around other specialist food stores, maybe close to a Saturday market, certainly close to a serious food shopping destination. Hilariously it took walking around the new site at Dockley with some prospective tenants to really open our eyes to the possibility not only on our doorstep, but also part of our Spa Terminus project alongside Neal’s Yard Dairy and Matching Green.

We have taken the lease on Units three and four Dockley Estate, ripped out the wall between them, and are now putting up walls for the loos and a staff room. We’ve pretty much finalised our plans for where the coffees, grinders, filter rack, espresso machine, and croissants will go. Over the next few weeks, we are concentrating on first fixings for plumbing, electrics, and planning for the ventilation units. Light shades have been ordered, chair samples are en route, and the floor finish has been chosen. As we will be closing the Discovery shop when we relocate to Dockley, we have been able to reuse many of our fixtures and fittings so there isn’t much in the way of new counter tops and equipment to organise.

The new site is big; it has a bigger floor space than our shop in Covent Garden (although that doesn’t take much) and bigger than our shop in Borough Market. It will have a large sharing table (like our one in Borough Market), and a low-level leaner section will run almost the entire length of the shop, so there will be plenty of inside seating and room to spread out. We also have plans for outside bench seating depending on council permissions.

Planning and building out our new site is really a group effort. We’re very much old-school when it comes to drawing up plans and much has been done with some graph paper and a 1:10 scale. Our maintenance team are organising all the building work and our carpenter (Tom) with whom have worked for decades, is doing all the cabinetry and oak work. He will be disassembling the counter units from Discovery and putting them back together in Dockley, if, in his words, he can remember how they were put together.

Let’s hope.

Monmouth x

August 2024 – A visit from Agricafe

On our counter, we are halfway through the current crop of the coffees from Bolivia. In Bolivia, the new crop has been harvested and processed. It is now being graded, tasted, and organised for export. The new crop will be on our counters in December. Earlier this year we were delighted to have Pedro Rodríguez […]

July 2024 – Ivy House

In June we had the delight of visiting Ivy House Farm in Beckington, Somerset. We have been using Ivy House milk in our shops for over twenty years now and it is always fun to visit the farm and the very friendly and curious cows. Geoff and Kim Bowles bought Ivy House in 1982. They […]

June 2024 – Decaffeinating Coffee

One of life’s great joys in the age of specialty coffee, is drinking specialty coffee. One of its great worries is what to do when caffeine’s kick is keeping one awake until the early hours, making a mockery of early-to-bed plans for worm catching. Inevitably, we reach for the decaf, hopeful that it tastes like […]

May 2024 – A visit from Suke Quto

Last month we had the delight of hosting Tesfaye Bekele and Genet Shibru from Suke Quto in Ethiopia, and Wim van Kooten from Trabocca in Amsterdam. This visit had been some time in the making, and we were really pleased it could happen. Tesfaye and Genet were with us for three days. We showed them […]

April 2024 – Spring!

Spring is always an exciting time, we have eaten our fill of Easter eggs, the new crop coffees from South America are arriving, and we are starting to taste and make selections from the Central American crop too. Our last shipment from the Brazilian crop has arrived, cleared customs, and been unloaded at the warehouse. […]

March 2024 – Easter Eggs

We are delighted to have Chocolarder chocolate eggs on our counter for Easter. The Cornish Honeycomb is a milk chocolate egg with honey from Cornish beekeeper Matt Pitt, and the Virunga is a dark chocolate egg with cacao from the Femmes Virunga Cooperative in Eastern Congo.  We have been fans of Chocolarder for a few years now and while we […]

February 2024 – A visit from Cultivar Coffees

Last month we had the delight of hosting Lisanne Oonk from Cultivar Coffees (the exporter we work with in Peru) at our roastery. We spent the day with Lisanne, chatting all things coffee, checking out our roasting site and spending time in our shops at Covent Garden and Borough Market. It was a super day […]

January 2024 – Happy New Year!

Did you dust off last year’s resolutions and decide to give them another whirl? Or are you a non-believer in the power of the new beginning and it is just life as usual? Whatever the case, Happy New Year and may 2024 be full of coffee you enjoy. At Monmouth we have recovered from the […]

The Annual

Our Annual project has been a few years in the making. Over the past few decades, we have produced copious paper newsletters that went from a one-sheet simple price list with tasting notes, to a full country list and origin profiles as we found ourselves with more to say. The one sheet expanded to some […]

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