Yellow Ladder Coffee

Few London cafés open their doors at 5:30am, and fewer still do it seven days a week — Yellow Ladder runs from dawn until 9pm, a genuine boon for early risers and shift workers around Whitechapel and Spitalfields. The beans are the other draw: single origins from Colombia, Ethiopia, El Salvador and Brazil sit alongside light and dark blends and a house decaf, sold whole or ground for espresso and filter so you can take the flavour home. A 4.6 rating from 228 reviews, plus a wheelchair-accessible entrance, toilet and car park, rounds things off nicely.