House espresso
Hearthstone
- Origin
- Brazil & Colombia
- Process
- Natural · Washed
- Roast
- Milk chocolate
- Hazelnut
- Red apple
£11.50 / 250 g
Specialty coffee · Columbia Road, E2
Roasted on site, poured with care
We roast our beans twice a week in the back of the shop and bake cardamom buns every morning. Pull up a chair, bring the dog, take a bag home.
Open now · until 17:00
This week's roast
La Esperanza, Colombia
First crack 9:40Drop 11:20
Our roastery
Roasted here, twice a week
Every Tuesday and Friday morning our 5 kg drum roaster runs in the back room, so the beans in your cup are never more than a few days old. Buy a bag at the counter and we'll grind it for your brewer, free.
Single origin · Gesha
Jasmine Hill
- Origin
- Bench Maji, Ethiopia
- Process
- Washed
- Roast
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
- Peach
£14.00 / 250 g
Single origin
La Esperanza
- Origin
- Huila, Colombia
- Process
- Honey
- Roast
- Panela
- Plum
- Orange zest
£12.50 / 250 g
Workshops & events
Learn it at our bar
Small groups on our own espresso machine and brew bar, after closing time. All levels welcome, coffee and buns included.
Latte art basics
£45
Saturdays, 18:00
Steaming milk, pouring a heart, a tulip and a rosetta. Two hours on our machine, six people at most.
Book a placeBetter coffee at home
£35
Wednesdays, 18:30
V60, AeroPress and cafetière side by side: grind, ratios and water. You go home with a bag of beans.
Book a placePublic cupping
Free
First Sunday of the month, 16:30
Taste the week's roasts the way roasters do, slurping from a spoon. Free, just book a place.
Book a place
Our story
From a bike shop to a roastery
I'm Hannah. I spent ten years roasting for other people's cafés before opening Ember & Oak in 2019, in what used to be a bike repair shop on Columbia Road.
We buy green coffee from a handful of farms we know by name, roast it in small batches and serve it to a street full of regulars, flower sellers and their dogs.
2019
on Columbia Road
2
roast days a week
11
people on the team
Kind words
What our regulars say
“The flat white is properly good and the cardamom buns sell out by eleven on Saturdays for a reason. Lovely team who remember your order.”
“Did the latte art workshop with my partner. Two hours flew by and I can now pour something that looks like a tulip. Mostly.”
“Came for the flower market, stayed for the brunch. Shakshuka was spot on, and they ground a bag of beans for my moka pot to take home.”
Visit us
On the flower market street
118 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG
Sunday is flower market day: come before ten for a quiet table.
- Monday – Fridaytoday
- 7:30 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 8:30 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 9:00 – 16:00
- Dogs welcome, water bowl by the door
- Step-free entrance and toilet
- Laptops welcome on weekdays
- Hoxton station, 8 minutes' walk
Bookings
Save a table or a place
Walk-ins are always welcome, but at weekend brunch it's worth booking. We hold tables for 15 minutes. For groups of nine or more, just give us a ring.
We'll confirm by email, usually within the hour while we're open.