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Brand review · 3 min readL'OR coffee review
What L'OR sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
L'OR sells 6 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 21p a cup, which is less than most of the pods coffee we track. Cheap coffee is easy to find and hard to trust, so the useful question is not whether it is cheap. It is what the range actually contains, and whether the bag doing the heavy lifting is the one you would want.
Short answer
Weekday capsules for people who want the cup, not the ritual, for remarkably little money.
Cheaper than 93% of the pods coffee we track
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- Best for
- Quick weekday cups
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 5/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.21across 6 products
Against the market−59%vs the pods median
Two cups a day£2.97a week, £4.28 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyour machine takes these capsules
Skip it ifyou are chasing a named farm or origin
L'OR 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 kind of roaster this is
L'OR sells pods and instant in the UK, and we track 6 of their coffees, in 125g, 40 pods and 100 pods.
L'OR 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 roasting sits on just 2 of our five levels, so this is a range with a house style rather than a spread to pick from. Nothing here comes in a kilo bag. That keeps the coffee fresher in your cupboard and costs you the bulk discount, which is the trade you are making whether or not anyone points it out. Decaf is 33% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought. Capsules here are compatible capsules, so check that against your machine before anything else on this page matters.
Formats and origins
What L'OR sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What L'OR coffee costs
The range runs from 8p to 26p a cup across six products. That is a 3.2× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is L'OR expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Intense Refill in the 125g, and the dearest is Espresso Ristretto Decaf in the 100 pods.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intense Refill | instant | 125g | £0.08 | £40.00 |
| Espresso Lungo Profondo | pods | 40 pods | £0.21 | — |
| Espresso Breakfast Variety Box | pods | 40 pods | £0.21 | — |
| Espresso Intense Variety Box | pods | 40 pods | £0.21 | — |
| Costa Smooth Decaf | pods | 100 pods | £0.25 | — |
| Espresso Ristretto Decaf | pods | 100 pods | £0.26 | — |
Bags themselves run £5.00 to £25.50. 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
If you buy one thing from L'OR, buy Espresso Lungo Profondo. At 21p a cup it comes in around 59% under the median for pods coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against L'OR's own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- L'OR£0.21 per cup£155
- Typical pods£0.52 per cup, our median£378
At 2 cups a day, L'OR costs £223 less a year than the typical pods coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How L'OR tastes
We have not tasted L'OR, 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 L'OR 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.
- Slow drinkers, and anyone who would rather buy little and often than watch a kilo go stale.
- People who already know they like a medium roast, because that is essentially all there is here.
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. L'OR clears it comfortably on at least one product, which more brands fail than pass. Worth knowing that the saving is concentrated in the larger bags rather than spread evenly, so buying the small size gives most of it back.
What else to consider
No brand is worth buying without knowing what sits next to it on price. These are the closest pods coffees we track to L'OR, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like L'OR
The closest pods 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.
Compare against the market
Keep reading
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