Flat white

A flat white, espresso from the house roast with steamed milk. The everyday cup.

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Kiss the Hippo Coffee

Specialty coffee · Bloomsbury

3 Bayley Street, London WC1B 3HA

The Bloomsbury café of Kiss the Hippo, a London coffee house that roasts its own single-origin coffee. A flat white or a filter, from its own roast.

We'd add

Filter

The house's own coffee brewed as filter. Ask what's on, and have it when there's time to sit.

Coffee at 3 more kitchens

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Flat white: which one?

Kiss the Hippo Coffee and one other kitchen in London all lead with it. What sets each apart, and who it suits:

Kiss the Hippo Coffee
This kitchen
Bloomsbury
Roasted downstairs in the basement, with a filter that rotates weekly.
Pick it if you want cake with the cup, or a filter as well.
Prufrock Coffee
Clerkenwell · Menu checked Sep 2026
A flat white with the breakfast bun, in Clerkenwell.
Pick it if you want breakfast with the coffee in Clerkenwell.

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