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09/11/2026

Here is a bundle of various lovely things from the cafe that were going to be separate posts but I ran out of time to do before our next event this FRIDAY (proper bumper post about our first Everyday Poetry event soon apparently if you believe the voice in my head?)
And in the meantime in the words of Jerry Springer “Take care of yourselves and each other” or else

Shelves are LADEN with very good things.
Super excited to have BLIND TIGER COFFEE™️ in finally, some of you may remember our event with Charlie Daze ? He is a human absolutely doused in wonder and whimsical joy. Glad we could bring some of his coffees over for you (and us) to drink real soon on the menu and at home

Module Roast Paul, the man who was behind the consistently incredible Lowdown in Edinburgh. Now doing amazing work roasting things like these coffees 👀currently at the cafe

Joining the current menu line up of Friedhats Coffee RIPSNORTER Campbell & Syme Coffee Carter Coffee Skylark Coffee Dark Pony Coffee

Incoming Sweven Coffee 💘

Prompts from Everyday Poetry, session 1- “Love” was the topic in all its forms, reckon there will be a sequel to this one because it was so fascinating and unsurprisingly full of love - also if you haven’t already, follow Aashifa the beautiful project of who may have made your coffee at Paradox over the past few months? But has been working on this project for a couple of years now, and will be launching a podcast imminently 👀 Get in touch with her if you want to talk about love

Limited Edition labels for Soft Petals featuring this fluffy guy

Pomeranians are love Fable Coffee Stories

Aashifa worksheet helping us find where we feel love

Everyday poetry isn’t about making great art per-say- but… ’s art was just published in Coffee People Zine for the second time

We went to see a guy about a coffee machine 👀
But we’re not telling you about that yet

Minari. getting competition ready 👀

Never get sick again* erm.

No promises or science based results etc but it tastes real fkn good regardless.

Hot apple juice , chilli, apple c***r vinegar, ginger, cinnamon and warming thoughts and prayers

Ok bye!

06/10/2026

Release number four is here. We’ve been drinking it for a few weeks Paradox Design workshop and can confirm wholeheartedly that “Soft Petals” is very delicious indeed.

Thought we would launch a little side project with this release as the artwork was inspired by “everyday poetry” - you know those moments of beauty or serendipity etc that make the everyday into something special. If you practice observing it turns out you notice a whole lot more magic without even really trying…

I thought I would share the other photos taken on the same little wander as the label - and when putting this post together yesterday (too late to actually post) I realised it was exactly a year ago today that I took them (if you don’t think that’s spooky then I reckon you need this practice of finding poetry in your days EVEN more ehh?)

If you’re into substack you should probs join us over there too 👀 find us under - Random Paradoxical Landscapes over there

Barbican Estate, October 6th 2025.

06/08/2026

Kat & Zain on shift tomorrow (definitely not coz we were short staffed…) just like the olden days.
Expect special coffees and probably some cake 🎂
Until 4

29/07/2026

It’s our BIRTHDAY week 🎂 There’s Gesha on house espresso, billions of tasty things on the shelves and on the menu - we have not (in true Paradox fashion) organised very much of a celebration- regardless of aspirations to the contrary. But. Kat & Zain will both be in August 7th and there will definitely be a little something going on then 👀

Coming In Fresh This Week 👀

Birthday Week Gesha 🎂 El Oasis, Colombia, Washed Gesha from Special Guests

Notes of Apricot, Lemon and Coffee Blossom

Also In This Week 👀

Seven Years WTF ?!?!?!?

22/07/2026

We’re *STILL* hiring. Freelance/Regular Weekends/Occasional Weekdays/Consistent Shifts For The Right People
Despite what my manager at wholefoods market told me back in 2010 - people are actually pretty hard to replace -
Especially when they’re as wonderful as the two people we’re attempting to…. Scroll for some details 👀 And then get in touch via email with a CV attached . [email protected]

We appreciate whimsy. Whimsy has the power to change the world guys

Our main focus is super high quality coffee made super consistently, with a generous dose of curiosity and attention to detail, hopefully in a joyous manner for all - and then after that it’s puppies of all ages of course

We like coffee. It’s kind of important to us- up until about a year and a bit ago it was literally ALL we did at the cafe. So it matters to us that it’s really really good. Even when there’s a coffee we don’t like- we want to know that it’s because it’s not for us, not that it hasn’t been made well.

We also sell a curated selection of books

We work with lots of different roasters, and recently started going steady with Special Guests to select exclusive house coffees

We brew a lot of filter, so experience and interest in filter, flavour and various methods is important to us

We can be a little busier at times, so an ability to enjoy smashing through queues and keeping each other and customers entertained is appreciated

We often get involved in events or throw our own, and we’re always open to ideas too

A love for the industry and all its wonderful people, knowledge of roasters, favourite cafes etc is 💕

Batch batch batch (we sell a lot of it)

22/06/2026

Lately (actually today mostly…almost entirely in fact)
Stickers! New cups! New Coffee! Also it’s hot innit???

03/02/2026

Full moon ritual - *Charge your crystals (*restock the coffee shelves) Manifestation (of plentiful coffee deliveries) Gratitude (mainly for .coffee & refilling our empty shelves) *Cleanse the sacred space (*exit the cafe and go home)
P.s Double Women’s Crown from both of these guys coz it’s always a favourite

23/01/2026

Marrakech by way of four really distinct cafes that we loved. There were a couple of others we had wanted to visit but honestly it felt nice on this trip to be amongst a small enough coffee scene to return to places we enjoyed more than once. To be clear this isn’t a list, and there is no order (aren’t those lists kind of silly?)
They do all have a few things in common obvs, super nice drinks, friendly people behind the bars, and they all just happened to be chill as hell (a welcome juxtaposition to the beautiful chaos and occasional torrential rain outside. .kawa

Address

13-23 Westgate Street
London
E83RL

Opening Hours

Wednesday	10am - 3pm
Thursday	10am - 3pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	9:30am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Website

http://www.welcometotheparadox.com/

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