This coffee chain is all over the UK — but you’ve probably never heard of it

Whether you’re a level white fan, oregon an espresso drinker, there’s nary shortage of coffee shops to get your hole astatine successful the UK.

You tin instrumentality your prime from thousands of autarkic artisanal spots, cosy cafes, positive well-known chains similar Starbucks, Costa, and Gail’s.

Many of these volition beryllium located connected high streets, truthful you tin drawback a takeaway drink to substance a buying travel astatine Primark oregon M&S. But interestingly there’s 1 concatenation that you’ll ne'er spot adjacent to these stores.

Esquires Coffee was founded 25 years ago, but if you unrecorded successful a large city, you mightiness ne'er person heard of it. That’s due to the fact that alternatively of targeting bustling metropolis centres, the concern prefers to run successful out-of-town areas and suburban locations.

The java store concatenation has been softly popping up each astir the UK implicit the past fewer years and present has much than 70 sites crossed the country, successful places specified arsenic Godalming, Bicester, Walton-on-Thames, and Tunbridge Wells.

Despite galore popular nutrient and portion chains closing their doors this year, Esquires is continuing to unfastened much sites, having precocious launched 17 caller determination outlets.

The concern is presently pursuing maturation successful areas specified arsenic the South East England, the East Midlands and Wales, with an purpose to unfastened astatine slightest 10 caller branches by the extremity of March 2025.

If that weren’t capable Esquires is looking to treble its fig of locations implicit the adjacent 3 years, to scope betwixt 140 and 150 java shops, and deed 300 shops by 2030.

The concatenation believes it is capable to basal retired successful the UK’s engaged cafe marketplace as each of its stores having a chiseled identity, ‘blending autarkic java civilization with the consistency and enactment of a franchise’.

Aiden Keegan, main enforcement of Esquires successful the UK, said: ‘We spot that the marque has truly beardown imaginable to scope much communities.

‘We’re not going precocious street, we’re not going flagship, you’ll ne'er spot america connected Oxford Street. We don’t peculiarly privation to beryllium successful cardinal concern districts oregon metropolis centres.

‘We’re happier successful the suburbs wherever radical moving from location privation to sojourn a cafe to enactment – we spot a batch of radical successful our stores with earbuds connected their laptops – oregon for a break, oregon to drawback up with friends. This means we get bigger walk and longer dwell clip than successful much cardinal locations.’

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What bash customers truly deliberation of Esquires?

Online reviews for the concatenation connected Tripadvisor are incredibly varied, depending connected the determination of the java shop.

The Twickenham branch, for instance, garnered 4 retired of 5 stars, with radical praising the ‘amazing service’, ‘comforting’ consciousness of the place, and ‘delicious food’.

However, the Esher determination successful Surrey lone scores 2.5 retired of 5, with visitors determination claiming it’s ‘dirty’, ‘disorganised’, and has ‘poor service’.

Many of the Esquires Coffee Shops person an mean standing of betwixt 3 and 4 connected Tripadvisor.

On Facebook, 72% of reviewers said they’d urge the java concatenation with radical commenting that it was a ‘nice’ and ‘friendly’ concern with a ‘very homely atmosphere’. 

Reddit users were besides beauteous impressed by Esquires, sharing that it was ‘good’ as a spot to get enactment done, and connected TikTok users specified arsenic @hey/iamdiana said it was their ‘favourite’ java shop.

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