Best Coffee and Coffee Pods

Whether you’re a coffee connoisseur or simply seeking a superior brew to start your day, the right coffee makes all the difference. Explore our curated selection of the finest beans, grounds, and pods that bring barista-quality coffee into your home. From bold roasts to eco-friendly pods, this guide ensures you’ll find the perfect blend to elevate your daily ritual – without leaving the comfort of your kitchen.

Dark Woods Coffee – Good Morning Sunshine Ground Coffee

Wake up to a clean-tasting Central American medium roast crafted from Arabica beans. Full-bodied, it contains notes of cherry, apricot, cocoa, toffee and French toast. Dark Woods is based in the moors of the West Yorkshire Pennines, out of a riverside Victorian textile mill.

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Grind Coffee – Black Blend Ground Coffee

Presented in an uber-trendy sugar almond pink reusable tin, this is one to show off on the shelf. Designed for espresso and black coffee drinkers, it’s floral and light but packs a caffeine punch. The brand launched via a Crowdfunding campaign five years ago. Soon after, it opened a roastery and barista training lab from a warehouse in London’s hip Shoreditch district.

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Fortnum & Mason – Queen’s Blend Coffee

Feel like royalty as you sip on a cup of Queen’s Blend from Fortnum and Mason. It was originally created for the early 20th century for Queen Alexandra, the wife of Edward VII and derives from the beans of small-batch farmers in East Africa and South America. Intense, dark roasted and spicy, it comes in a pretty, feminine, floral caddy that makes for a charming gift.

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Rare Gill – 10 Coffee Pods

Shop sustainably with Roar Gill’s 100% compostable carbon-neutral capsules. The brand has a policy of additional tree planting to offset emissions, with beans coming from the oldest coffee plantations in the Brazilian Cerrado region. Compatible with original style Nespresso machines, the product was Awarded Best Indy Buy 2020 for Eco Pods by the Independent Newspaper and featured in the Observer’s 50 Things We Love in Food & Drink in 2020.

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