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Brand review · 3 min readMission Coffee Works coffee review
What Mission Coffee Works sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Mission Coffee Works sells 13 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 65p a cup, which is less than most of the ground 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
Delicate and fruit-forward rather than strong, at less than most people pay.
Cheaper than 61% of the ground coffee we track
- Tastes
- Bright and floral, noticeably acidic
- Strength
- Mild
- Best for
- Filter and pour-over
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 3/5
Cheapest cup£0.65across 13 products
Against the market−8%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£9.07a week, £0.82 less than typical
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifOrigin Coffee Roasters at 66p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Mission Coffee Works sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 13 of their coffees, in 1kg, 600g and 200g.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 77% of the classified range is blended. The trade is a familiar one. You give up the story on the label and you get a cup that does not drift between orders. The buying reaches 5 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. Bags come in both small and kilo sizes, and the gap between them per kilo is usually the largest saving available anywhere on this page.
Formats and origins
What Mission Coffee Works sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Mission Coffee Works coffee costs
The range runs from 65p to £1.33 a cup across 13 products. That is a 2.1× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Mission Coffee Works expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Roaster's Choice Filter in the 1kg, and the dearest is Baima in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roaster's Choice Filter | ground | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Bells | — | 1kg | £0.74 | £41.00 |
| Roaster's Filter Selection | ground | 600g | £0.84 | £46.67 |
| Pivot Espresso | — | 1kg | £0.87 | £48.50 |
| Roaster's Espresso Selection | — | 600g | £0.89 | £49.17 |
| UpHill Espresso | — | 1kg | £0.89 | £49.50 |
| Sans Decaf Espresso | — | 1kg | £0.89 | £49.50 |
| Chelbesa Red Honey | ground | 1kg | £1.13 | £63.00 |
| Igutha | ground | 200g | £1.18 | £65.50 |
| Evin Moreno | ground | 1kg | £1.22 | £68.00 |
| Evin Moreno | ground | 1kg | £1.22 | £68.00 |
| Evin Moreno | ground | 1kg | £1.22 | £68.00 |
Bags themselves run £13.10 to £74.00. 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
If you buy one thing from Mission Coffee Works, buy Roaster's Choice Filter. At 65p a cup it comes in around 8% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Mission Coffee Works'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?
- Mission Coffee Works£0.65 per cup£473
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, Mission Coffee Works costs £43 less a year than the typical ground coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Mission Coffee Works tastes
We have not tasted Mission Coffee Works, 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 Mission Coffee Works 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.
- Anyone whose real comparison is supermarket own-brand, judged per cup rather than by the label.
- 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. Mission Coffee Works 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.
Mission Coffee Works 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 ground coffees we track to Mission Coffee Works, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Mission Coffee Works
The closest ground 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
PricesMission Coffee Works price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Mission Coffee Works pricesLive prices on all 13 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery ground coffeeAll 483 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewOrigin Coffee Roasters reviewThe closest brand to Mission Coffee Works on price, at 66p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.