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Brand review · 2 min readCarte Noire coffee review
What Carte Noire sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
This is an assessment of Carte Noire as a brand rather than a live price list — for current prices on every product, the Carte Noire hub is the page you want. Here we look at how the range is shaped, where it sits on value, and what we would buy instead.
Live prices for every Carte Noire product are on the Carte Noire brand page. This review is the analysis that sits alongside it.
The range
Carte Noire sells pods in the UK. We currently track 3 products, in 60 pods. A brand that spans several formats is usually worth judging format by format — the same name can be excellent value in one and poor in another.
What Carte Noire coffee costs
We track 3 Carte Noire products, spanning £0.24 to £0.31 per cup — a 1.3× spread within one brand. The cheapest is Espresso Intense (60 pods); the most expensive is Espresso Lungo (60 pods).
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Espresso Intense | pods | 60 pods | £0.24 | — |
| Espresso Classique | pods | 60 pods | £0.24 | — |
| Espresso Lungo | pods | 60 pods | £0.31 | — |
Pack prices run from £14.37 to £18.49. As always, the pack price is the least useful number here — the per-cup column is the one that compares.
Best value in the range
Espresso Intense is the strongest value Carte Noire currently offers: at £0.24 per cup it sits about 32% below the median cup price for pods coffee across everything we track. That is a comparison against the whole market, not against Carte Noire's own list prices.
Who it suits
- Convenience-first drinkers who value consistency over control.
- Pod-machine owners — but check the compatible-capsule price for the same machine before committing.
- Anyone who wants a repeatable cup rather than a rotating single origin.
Value for money
On our own test — cost per cup against the median for the same format — Carte Noire has at least one genuinely strong product in the range. That is a better result than most brands manage, and it is concentrated in the larger pack sizes.
Carte Noire 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.
Alternatives worth comparing
Before buying, put Carte Noire next to the wider format list. The comparison hubs sort every brand we track onto the same per-cup basis, which is the only way to see whether a brand premium is buying you anything.
Compare against the market