The Roastery

From bean to cup, our state-of-the-art roastery is the heart of our business and the home of our coffee beans.

The new home of Costa Coffee

As Costa Coffee continued to expand across London, the UK and eventually the globe, we needed to find another new home to accommodate the increasing demand once again.

In early 2017, after two years of construction, we opened our doors to a brand-new state-of-the-art roastery in Basildon, Essex.

Our roastery is one of the biggest roasteries in Europe and allows us to produce 45,000 tonnes of coffee a year, quadrupling our coffee roasting capacity compared to our previous home in Lambeth.

Not just content with being the biggest, our roastery is also one of the most sustainable buildings in the world. We responsibly source all our raw coffee beans from 100% Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms, where they are then ready to be transported to Tilbury Docks, Essex, located just 14 miles away from the Costa Coffee Roastery!

Only 5% of the world’s coffee beans are good enough for our coffee, and every bean is skillfully slow-roasted in our roastery

Crafting excellence

Each of our baristas has been trained in the art of making great coffee through one of our own Costa Coffee training academies. We have an annual competition where our best baristas from around the world compete for the prestigious title of “Barista of the Year”.

Inspiring the world to love great coffee

We have always worked hard to bring new coffee experiences to our customers. From the opening of the brothers' first coffee boutique in the 1980s, innovation has flowed through every aspect and era of Costa Coffee.

We were the first coffee providers in London serving our coffee in porcelain cups; we were the first coffee shop chain to introduce the Flat White in the UK and, with our Express machines, we were the first to bring coffee shop quality coffee to convenience stores and roadsides across the UK.

Our signature blend has stood the test of time and we're proud to have been voted the UK’s favourite coffee shop* for the 11th consecutive year! It’s this same passion for crafting the finest quality coffee that we have brought to India.