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Brand review · 3 min readLars & Margo coffee review
What Lars & Margo sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Lars & Margo asks 83p 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
A light roast with real acidity, best drunk black, and it is not cheap.
Cheaper than 23% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Bright and floral, noticeably acidic
- Strength
- Mild
- Best for
- Filter and pour-over
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 1/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 3/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 1/5
Cheapest cup£0.83across 10 products
Against the market+31%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£11.59a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifUrbanbaristas at 84p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Lars & Margo sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 10 of their coffees, in 1kg.
About 50% of the classified range is blended, so Lars & Margo is playing both games: something dependable to reorder, and something changing to be curious about. The buying reaches 7 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting spans 3 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 Lars & Margo sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Lars & Margo coffee costs
The range runs from 68p to £1.01 a cup across ten products. That is a 1.5× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Lars & Margo expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Eagle Monte Carmelo in the 1kg, and the dearest is Ethiopia in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Monte Carmelo | — | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Mexican Mountain Water Decaf | — | 1kg | £0.76 | £42.00 |
| together | — | 1kg | £0.76 | £42.00 |
| Guatemala | — | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
| Rotutu Cooperative | whole bean | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
| Rwanda Lighter Roast | — | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
| Rwanda Medium Roast | — | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
| Peru | — | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
| Alba | — | 1kg | £1.01 | £56.00 |
| Ethiopia | — | 1kg | £1.01 | £56.00 |
Bags themselves run £38.00 to £56.00. 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
Eagle Monte Carmelo is the cheapest thing Lars & Margo sells, at 68p 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?
- Lars & Margo£0.83 per cup£604
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Lars & Margo costs £145 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Lars & Margo tastes
We have not tasted Lars & Margo, 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 Lars & Margo 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 want a house blend to fall back on with named origins to wander into.
- 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 3 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. Lars & Margo 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.
Lars & Margo 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 Lars & Margo, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Lars & Margo
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.
Compare against the market
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PricesLars & Margo price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Lars & Margo pricesLive prices on all 10 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewUrbanbaristas reviewThe closest brand to Lars & Margo on price, at 84p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.