Grabbing that first morning cup of coffee is something of a ritual among Britons.
Coffee is increasingly challenging tea’s longstanding dominance, with new research showing 63 per cent of Brits regularly drink coffee, compared to only 59 per cent who drink tea.
Now, the UK’s coffee capital has been revealed, in Capital on Tap’s 2026 UK Coffee Report.
The report analysed coffee shop distribution across the UK’s 30 largest cities to uncover the cities with the highest concentration of independent coffee shops.
The survey of 1,000 UK consumers found that 41 per cent of Brits prefer independent coffee shops, compared with 23 per cent who
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