GrindhouseRoastery & café · PenarthRoastery · Penarth

Café menu

The menu, and the board.

Short on purpose. The espresso recipe for the day is on the board behind the counter with the name of whoever dialled it in; the filter changes every week or two. Any milk, no surcharge; decaf the same price as everything else.

A café breakfast on a wooden table: sourdough toast with smashed avocado and poached eggs, a cardamom bun and a flat white

Espresso

  • Espresso£2.60

    Groundwork house blend, double

  • Flat white£3.40

    Any milk

  • Cortado£3
  • Latte£3.60

    Any milk

  • Cappuccino£3.50
  • Americano£3
  • Mocha£3.90

    With the good chocolate

  • Decafsame

    Sugar-cane process, same price

Filter

  • Pour-over£3.20

    This week's single origin, 250ml

  • Batch brew£2.80

    Same coffee, bigger pot, from 7:30

  • Cold brew£3.40

    Summer, over ice

  • Tea£2.80

    Loose leaf, a pot

From the oven

  • Cardamom bun£3.20
  • Cinnamon bun£3.20
  • Seasonal bun£3.40

    Rhubarb, plum, or ask

  • Banana bread£2.90

    Vegan

Brunch, until three

  • Toast and eggs£9.50

    Sourdough, two poached, butter

  • Avocado toast£8.50

    Chilli, lime, seeds; add an egg £1.50

  • Beans on toast£7

    Our beans, vegan

  • Soup and bread£6.50

    Winter

  • Granola£6

    Vale yoghurt, fruit, summer

  • Toast and jam£4

    Or marmalade

Takeaway in a cup you bring or in ours; 20p off for your own. Allergens on the sheet by the till: the buns contain wheat, dairy and egg; the beans and the banana bread are vegan; gluten-free bread is available for the toasts. Card and cash.

The board

Dose, yield, time, and who dialled it in.

Every morning the first barista on tastes the espresso, adjusts the grinder until it is right, and writes the recipe on the board: how many grams in, how many out, how many seconds, and their initials. If you want to know why your flat white tastes different on a Thursday, that is where the answer is. If it is not right, we pull it and start again, and the batch brew is free while we do.

Learn to do it at home
A barista pouring a rosetta of latte art into a wide oat-coloured ceramic cup

Come in, or have it delivered.

Open from half seven on weekdays, roasting in the window on Tuesdays, cupping on Saturdays at ten. Beans by the bag in the café or on a fortnightly subscription; wholesale from £24 a kilo with the price list online.

Buy the beansWholesale