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Brand review · 3 min readUrbanbaristas coffee review
What Urbanbaristas sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Urbanbaristas asks 84p 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
Delicate and fruit-forward rather than strong, and it is not cheap.
Cheaper than 21% 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
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 3/5
Cheapest cup£0.84across 4 products
Against the market+33%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£11.76a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou want the same cup every time
Skip it ifLars & Margo at 83p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Urbanbaristas sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 4 of their coffees, in 450g.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 100% 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 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.
Formats and origins
What Urbanbaristas sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Urbanbaristas coffee costs
The range runs from 84p to 96p a cup across four products. That is a 1.1× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Urbanbaristas expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Shelly Beach in the 450g, and the dearest is Coogee Beach in the 450g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelly Beach | whole bean | 450g | £0.84 | £46.67 |
| Palm Beach | whole bean | 450g | £0.84 | £46.67 |
| Bondi Beach | whole bean | 450g | £0.84 | £46.67 |
| Coogee Beach | whole bean | 450g | £0.96 | £53.33 |
Bags themselves run £21.00 to £24.00. 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
Shelly Beach is the cheapest thing Urbanbaristas sells, at 84p 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?
- Urbanbaristas£0.84 per cup£613
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Urbanbaristas costs £153 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Urbanbaristas tastes
We have not tasted Urbanbaristas, 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 Urbanbaristas 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 light 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. Urbanbaristas 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.
Urbanbaristas 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 Urbanbaristas, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Urbanbaristas
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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PricesUrbanbaristas price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Urbanbaristas pricesLive prices on all 4 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewLars & Margo reviewThe closest brand to Urbanbaristas on price, at 83p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.