Tomtom Coffee House

Allpress beans and a broad filter shelf

At the Belgravia counter this London specialist coffee shop pours Allpress and keeps its own focaccia and cakes moving through the day. The coffee programme is built around Allpress roast beans, with freshness near the centre of the way the house talks about coffee. Beans are usually kept within a fortnight of roasting, which gives the espresso bar a practical rhythm rather than a collector's one. Cappuccinos, flat whites and lattes form the daily spine, but the range runs wider than that: coffees from Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, India, Sumatra and Cuba have all been part of the list for individually ground filter drinks. That breadth is part of the Tomtom character, not a side note. The Cuban thread comes from the wider Tomtom story, where cigars and coffee once sat close together, but the Belgravia room reads first as a coffee house: espresso, filter, loose tea, matcha, chai, smoothies and milkshakes all held under one counter.

The corner counter and the all-day kitchen

The room works as a walk-in coffee house rather than a booked table operation, and that suits the corner position. It catches local residents, office regulars and people cutting across Belgravia, so the counter has to do several jobs at once: morning coffee, late breakfast, a proper lunch, an afternoon cake. The kitchen is not just a pastry tray beside the till. Cakes are baked on the premises through the day, with loaves, muffins, brownies and cookies in the rotation, and the focaccia is baked in-house each morning for toasties. It is a polished central London cafe, but the useful thing is the continuity: coffee, bread and cake do not feel like separate businesses sharing a room.

Order the Spanish rose latte, then a focaccia toastie

Start with the Spanish rose latte if the walk calls for something more specific than a flat white. It is one of the house-named drinks, and it tells you more about Tomtom than another plain espresso order would: floral, milky, and clearly in the line of flavoured lattes the cafe has made part of its identity. The peanut butter latte is the other house signature, better when you want something heavier and more dessert-like. For food, the focaccia toastie is the right first order because the bread is made here each morning, then pressed until crisp. The Tomtom Breakfast Roll is the bigger savoury move, with scrambled eggs, Cheddar, turkey bacon, smashed avocado and homemade sweet chilli. If the aim is only coffee and a bite, take the Spanish rose latte with a brownie or muffin from the day's bake.