Our story

SOHO Coffee Co. has come a long way 

We've always been passionate about serving the very best organic, Fairtrade coffee since day one. It's how so many of us start our day, so we want everyone to have the best kick-start to their morning. And great coffee naturally demands great food, ours is handmade in our own kitchens.

As an independent business, we’re pretty chuffed about how far we’ve come since our very first High Street store in Cheltenham in 1999. We’re now proudly serving our fabulous food and signature coffee to SOHO customers from London to Las Palmas, Manchester to Malaga and Dublin to Doha!

Still thoroughly in love with what we do 

Our development chefs, Duncan and Dom, have an obsessive love of constructing, deconstructing and reimagining recipes and flavours: sourcing those perfect ingredients that really make our food sing. Everyone at SOHO is a foodie and a lot of taste testing happens at SOHO HQ. (Hey, it’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.)

The very best people

You meet our shiny happy store teams every day, when you walk into a SOHO, but we’re also super-proud of our ‘behind the scenes’ teams that no one ever gets to see. 

It’s Mark, Will, Damien and their teams in our kitchens that are the ‘oven lovers’ and ‘salad supremos’, who make  our food by hand, every day.  And our head office team has it all: from the happiest, friendliest number crunchers you’ll ever meet to what we lovingly call the ‘colouring in team’ (aka marketing); and from our ‘flying’ barista trainers that share the skills of their craft wherever they’re needed, to Artur and his band of merry men and women that keep our supply chain supplying!

The people we work with share our passion.

We get a huge kick out of working with partners who share our ethics and commitment to quality: take our very original coffee roaster in The Forest of Dean; our Fairtrade, Fairwild heroes, Pukka; or the farmers that bring us the ‘happy eggs’ that go into our legendary breakfast sandwiches; the organic milk, that makes our latte lovely. 

Lightbulb moments

We want to do our bit. We continue to work on a range of initiatives to help improve on our environmental impact: from a reduction in our packaging to eliminating landfill at our HQ, and from LED lightbulbs to using crockery over disposables where we can. We’ve cut our fuel consumption and therefore our CO2 footprint and very importantly, we only have smiley, considerate van drivers out on the road.

Doing our bit

Our people are truly great sports when it comes to charity fundraising. We’ve seen more fancy dress than Elton John, and we get behind our committed crew members when they want to climb mountains, run marathons and cycle more miles than can possibly be good for them.  We’re grateful to you, our lovely customers, who also support our endeavours and we thank you for your continued generosity.