OUR STORY
Harris + Hoole are a chain of speciality coffee shops founded in 2012. We are on a mission to make seasonally sourced, single origin, speciality coffee accessible to everyone. We do this by investing in the best coffees, expertly training our baristas and providing relaxing shops for our customers to come and visit.
Our names, "Harris + Hoole" date back to the very first days of London's coffee scene, as captured in the diary of Samual Pepys in 1664:
The excerpt:
"Feb 3rd, 1664. In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch home my wife, I stopped at the great Coffee-house there, where I never was before: Where Dryden the poet (I knew at Cambridge), and all the wits of the town, and Harris the player and Mr Hoole of our College. And had I had time then, or could at other times, it will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is very witty and pleasant discourse."
So there you go. We reckon it's pretty cool that 350 years on people are still being brought together by great coffee. It's a tradition we are proud to be part of, and if Mr. Pepys were around today we very much hope he'd pop in for a cup.