{"id":288073,"date":"2025-07-24T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288073\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:04:12","slug":"one-of-liverpools-favourite-indie-coffee-shops-opens-in-the-baltic-with-its-own-roastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288073\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Liverpool&#8217;s favourite indie coffee shops opens in the Baltic with its own roastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owners of one of Liverpool\u2019s longest-standing independent coffee shops have opened a new one in the Baltic Triangle with its own roastery.<\/p>\n<p>Rococo Coffee House upstairs on Lord Street, Liverpool has been a favourite for coffees, breakfasts and lunches since it launched in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s built a loyal local following and has become a popular stop with tourists arriving in the city centre who spot its little doorway signage.<\/p>\n<p>Now Gareth Dyer and Paul Vernon, the business partners behind Rococo and its sibling Caf\u00e9 Lucaya on Water Street, have created a third coffee shop \u2013 Stanhope Coffee.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/In-house-roaster-at-Stanhope-Coffee-1.jpg\" alt=\"Stanhope Coffee in the Baltic Liverpool\" class=\"wp-image-223354\"  \/>Credit: Stanhope Coffee <\/p>\n<p>Located on Stanhope Street, near Cains Brewery Village and Jacaranda Baltic, it has an in-house roastery and a menu of bestsellers chosen from the other two sites.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also got a few new additions not available in Rococo or Caf\u00e9 Lucaya, including a build-your-own breakfast toastie which has proved an instant hit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-owner Gareth, who\u2019s originally from St Helens, says Stanhope Coffee comes with exactly the same ethos that\u2019s made their other venues such a success. <\/strong>\u201cOur initial slogan for Rococo was \u2018saving Liverpool from corporate coffee\u2019,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were one of only a few independent coffee shops in Liverpool city centre at the time and all the big corporate chains were coming in. That\u2019s what our aim was \u2013 doing coffee better, in a better environment, with better service and better quality food.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rococo-coffee-house-1.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee in the Baltic\" class=\"wp-image-223356\" style=\"width:777px;height:auto\"\/>Credit: Rococo coffee house<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to create something unique where people feel at home and the staff we have are like a little family. It\u2019s what we\u2019ve based our business on ever since and thankfully it\u2019s worked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we first launched our plan was just to survive and be able to pay the bills, but over time we expanded. We only had one room at first and now we\u2019ve got four, so we had the space to be able to grow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce that happened, if we could find another opportunity and another good location for our ideas, then we looked to roll out what we already have. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve done with Caf\u00e9 Lukaya and now Stanhope Coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gareth says he and Paul originally bought the old warehouse building in the Baltic as a roastery, supplying coffee to their own shops and to customers via online subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was just over three years ago, then because we had the space we decided to get planning permission to turn it into a coffee shop as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe USP of Stanhope is people can come in and see their coffee being roasted, so you can\u2019t get any fresher than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Inside-Stanhope-Coffee-1.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Stanhope Coffee Liverpool\" class=\"wp-image-223355\"  \/>Credit: Stanhope Coffee<\/p>\n<p>Dog friendly Stanhope Coffee seats around 30 with a few extra tables outside and is open from 8am to 4pm every day.<\/p>\n<p>The good news for fans of Rococo and Lukaya is there are plenty of familiar items on the menu including its much-loved cheese on toast and Baileys lattes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBreakfast is more or less identical to the other two, and the main menu is slightly smaller but still got a good variety,\u201d adds Gareth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at what was most popular \u2013 we\u2019re lucky enough to have two stores with different clienteles but also trends and staples \u2013 so the menu is really all the hits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out and get all the info on Rococo Coffee\u2019s instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rocococoffee_official\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><br \/>\nKeep up to date with all the news around Liverpool on our <a href=\"http:\/\/theguideliverpool.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Find out what\u2019s good up North on our new platform, The Northern Guide.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the best hotels, beauty spots, days out, food and more up North \u2013 visit<a href=\"https:\/\/thenorthernguide.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0thenorthernguide.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow The Northern Guide on Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thenorthernguideuk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owners of one of Liverpool\u2019s longest-standing independent coffee shops have opened a new one in the Baltic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,786,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-food-and-drink","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114908591891149709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}