Art & Coffee coffee bagsBrand review · 3 min read

Art & Coffee coffee review

What Art & Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.

Updated 3 September 2026Written by the We Try Coffee team

Art & Coffee asks 67p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most whole bean coffee we list. Plenty of brands charge that and are worth it. The question is what you get for the difference, so here is the range, what it costs against everything else, and where we would put the money.

Short answer

Balanced everyday coffee that suits almost everyone, at the going rate.

Cheaper than 45% of the whole bean coffee we track

Tastes
Balanced, caramel and chocolate
Strength
Medium
Best for
Everyday coffee, black or white
Valuecup price vs the format median
2/5
Easy to likefrom the roast profile
5/5
Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
4/5
Cheapest cup£0.67across 8 products
Against the market+6%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£9.32a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced

Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks

Skip it ifSteampunk Coffee Roasters at 67p would do

What kind of roaster this is

Art & Coffee sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 8 of their coffees, in 1kg.

Art & Coffee is a blender: 100% of the range we can classify is blended rather than sold as a named origin. That is a choice, not a shortcut. A blend can be rebuilt season to season to taste the same, which is what you want if you buy the same coffee every month and would rather it did not move under you. The buying reaches 7 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting spans 4 of our five levels, so there is a genuine choice to make inside the range rather than one house style applied to everything. Every bag we list is a kilo or more, which is what pushes the per-cup figure down and also what makes this a bad fit if you drink slowly, since coffee is past its best four to six weeks after roasting.

Formats and origins

What Art & Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.

What Art & Coffee coffee costs

The range runs from 67p to 85p a cup across eight products. That is a 1.3× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Art & Coffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Liquid Gold in the 1kg, and the dearest is Floral Symphony in the 1kg.

Art & Coffee range, cheapest per cup first
ProductFormatSizePer cupPer kg
Liquid Goldwhole bean1kg£0.67£37.00
Ethiopiawhole bean1kg£0.70£39.00
Colombiawhole bean1kg£0.70£39.00
Indonesia Sumatra Specialitywhole bean1kg£0.72£40.00
Grid of Harmonywhole bean1kg£0.72£40.00
Composition of Soulwhole bean1kg£0.72£40.00
Viva la Vidawhole bean1kg£0.85£47.00
Floral Symphonywhole bean1kg£0.85£47.00

Bags themselves run £37.00 to £47.00. Ignore that column. A bigger bag costs more and almost always costs less per cup, which is the only number that follows you home.

The one to buy

Liquid Gold is the cheapest thing Art & Coffee sells, at 67p a cup. We cannot yet set that against a market average for whole bean coffee, so treat it as the floor of the range rather than a verdict on value.

What that costs over a year

How much coffee do you drink?
  • Art & Coffee£0.67 per cup£486
  • Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460

At 2 cups a day, Art & Coffee costs £26 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.

How Art & Coffee tastes

We have not tasted Art & Coffee, so we are not going to invent a tasting note. A flavour score we did not earn would be worth less than none, and this section would be the easiest place on the site to quietly make one up. What we can show you is measured: where every coffee in the range sits on our own five-point roast scale, and which origins go into it. Roast is the strongest single predictor of whether a cup arrives bright and fruity or dark and chocolatey, so it is the closest honest answer to what this brand is like to drink.

How Art & Coffee roasts

Every coffee standardised onto our own five-point scale rather than the roaster's. Read these as tendencies: origin, process and how you brew all move the cup.

Who it suits

  • People who found something they like and want it to taste the same next year, which is what a blend is for.
  • Households getting through real volume. The kilo bags are the whole value case, and they only work if you drink them fresh.
  • People who want to choose their own roast rather than take the roaster's word for it, since the range covers 4 of our five levels.

Is it good value?

Our test is simple, and it is the same one we apply to everything: cost per cup against the median for the same format. Art & Coffee lands around the middle. It is not the cheapest way to a cup of coffee, and the money above the median buys convenience and consistency rather than a smaller bill. Whether that is a fair trade is genuinely your call, not ours.

Art & Coffee products we track

Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.

Prices are the last we fetched and can move. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. It never changes the order, which is always cheapest per cup first.

What else to consider

No brand is worth buying without knowing what sits next to it on price. These are the closest whole bean coffees we track to Art & Coffee, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.

Coffees priced like Art & Coffee

The closest whole bean coffees on price per cup, from brands we also track. If one of these is cheaper for the same thing, that is worth knowing before you order.