Sunlit café interior seen from the doorway: bare wooden tables and bentwood chairs, with hard window light thrown across the floorboards.

Filter coffee · Bermondsey · Fictional café

The bean is on the board. So is the closing time.

We print what we are pouring and when we stop pouring it, and then we keep to both. Nothing on this page is a countdown.

Today’s bean: Nyamasheke, Rwanda
Roasted: 09 Sep
Door locks: 16:00

This week’s bean Hours and address

Two things we print

The bean is named before you order it

One coffee is on the filter board at a time, and the region, the process and the roast date are printed at the top of this page and on the wall by the till. When the bag runs out the board changes. It does not change quietly.

The closing time is the closing time

The hours below are the hours. We do not stay open late for a good afternoon or shut early on a slow one, and the last pour goes in 10 minutes before the door is locked so it is finished properly rather than rushed.

A printed paper tag propped against a ceramic cup on a wooden counter. — The board, on paper, by the till

Stacked burlap coffee sacks with stencilled lettering in a daylit storeroom.

This week’s bean

Printed here, on the wall, and on the bag. Nothing in this ledger is a rating or a credential — the fields we cannot answer honestly for a fictional café read TBD.

Region: Nyamasheke, Rwanda
Varietal: Red Bourbon
Process: Washed
Altitude: 1,750–1,900 m
Roasted on: 09 Sep
Roast level: Medium — filter
In the cup: Redcurrant, black tea, brown sugar
Brewed today as: V60, 1:16, 3m 30s
Third-party score: TBD

Unroasted green coffee beans held in two cupped hands, lit by a window. — Green, before the roast

At the counter

Seven things, printed. The filter changes when the bag runs out; the rest of the board does not move.

Filter, today's bean: £3.60
Batch brew, refill: £1.50
Espresso: £2.80
Cortado: £3.20
Flat white: £3.60
Whole beans, 250 g: £11.50
Toast, cultured butter: £4.20

A gooseneck kettle pouring hot water into a paper filter cone, steam rising, lit from the side. — V60, 1:16, three and a half minutes

A row of clean ceramic cups upturned on a wooden shelf. — Everything is served in ceramic unless you ask otherwise

We close when the board says

Monday: 07:3016:00
Tuesday: 07:3016:00
WednesdayToday: 07:3016:00
Thursday: 07:3017:00
Friday: 07:3017:00
Saturday: 08:3017:00
Sunday: 08:3015:00

The last pour goes in 10 minutes before the door is locked. There is no countdown on this page and there is none on the wall either — the time is printed, and that is the whole promise.

A two-seat corner table beside a window, with a folded newspaper and a glass of water on it. — The corner table, morning

Floorboards and table legs seen at a low angle, with morning light striping the wood. — Floorboards, before the door opens

The room

Fourteen seats, two of them by the window, and a shelf of books nobody is precious about. There is no music before ten, the tables are not reserved, and nobody will move you on for reading.

Find us

Address: Kilnwright Lane
Bermondsey, London
Getting here: Nearest station: London Bridge, 9 minutes on foot
Open today until: 16:00
Telephone: TBD
Email: TBD

An open café door seen from the street, warm interior light against a plain facade. — The door, from the lane

The telephone and email slots above are empty on purpose. The Slow Pour is a fictional café built as a demonstration template, so there is no number to print and printing one anyway would be the single dishonest line on the page.