Neighbourhood Coffee Roasters

Overview

Chris Holloway and Ed Peck — both ex-Schluter green coffee importers (the African coffee specialists since absorbed into Olam) — founded Neighbourhood Coffee in 2014 as Liverpool's first specialty coffee roastery, working initially out of a railway arch north of the city centre on a 15kg Giesen and explicitly leaning into approachability over pretension. By 2020 the operation had outgrown the railway arch and moved to the Sandon Industrial Estate near Liverpool's docks; in 2022 a 60kg Giesen was added alongside the original 15kg, and the company has since trained over 1,500 baristas and racked up 30 Great Taste Awards.

Known for

• Liverpool's first specialty coffee roastery (since 2014)
• Founders Chris Holloway and Ed Peck — both ex-Schluter green coffee traders
• 15kg Giesen (since 2014) plus 60kg Giesen added 2022
• 30 Great Taste Awards and Feefo Trusted Service Platinum Award
• Trained 1,500+ baristas since 2014
• Framework Coffee cafe at Mann Island (Pier Head/Albert Dock area)

Why it matters

Neighbourhood is structurally unusual — a specialty roaster founded by two career green-coffee traders rather than baristas-turned-roasters — and it built Liverpool's third-wave scene from zero in a city whose coffee history was historically about importing rather than drinking specialty.

Production

destoning

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head roaster

Luke Hall

color sorting

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roaster machine

15kg Giesen (since 2014) + 60kg Giesen (added 2022); Ikawa for sample roasting

filter equipment

Hario V60

cupping frequency

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roastery location

Unit 22 The Sandon Estate, Sandon Way, Liverpool L5 9YN (since 2020); previous railway arch north of Liverpool city centre 2014-2020

espresso equipment

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annual volume tonnes

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Café

Framework Coffee, Mann Island, Central Liverpool (between Pier Head & Albert Dock); roastery itself has training suite, no cafe footprint

Recognitions

• 30 Great Taste Awards
• Feefo Trusted Service Platinum Award
• Runner-up 2016 Best Roaster/Retailer Award
• Wholesale partners include Ditto Coffee (London/Liverpool/Manchester), Press Bros. Coffee, Lateral/Wylde Coffee, The Climbing Hangar, Caernarfon Castle cafe

Sources

• https://www.neighbourhoodcoffee.co.uk/about-us/
• https://www.neighbourhoodcoffee.co.uk/
• https://www.brian-coffee-spot.com/originals/neighbourhood-coffee-original/
• https://www.brian-coffee-spot.com/2016/04/02/neighbourhood-coffee/
• https://dogandhat.co.uk/collections/neighbourhood
• https://www.dittocoffee.co.uk/journal/2020/10/26/interview-chris-holloway-co-founder-of-neighbourhood-coffee
• https://roasterlist.co.uk/roaster/neighbourhood-coffee/
• https://www.bluecoffeebox.com/blogs/learn-blue-coffee/neighbourhood-coffee-roasters
• https://uk.linkedin.com/company/neighbourhood-coffee-roasters
• https://balancecoffee.co.uk/blogs/blog/best-coffee-roasters-liverpool-uk