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Roasted Rituals
Bristol’s trio of speciality coffee shops has just become a quadrumvirate with the arrival on Blackboy Hill of Roasted Rituals.
Except that unlike Didn’t You Do Well, Full Court Press and Small Street Espresso, these new kids on the block don’t stay still.
Instead, Roasted Rituals operate from a converted Citroen van, serving espresso and filter coffee from their own micro-roastery in Hengrove owned by New Zealand couple Patrick and Tahi Grant-Sturgis.
I chose to try the single origin La Piramide from Colombia in a flat white, with tasting notes of plum jam, soft spice and sugarcane – leaving the sugar available from a wicker basket well alone.
It was the best coffee en pleine air I have had in Bristol since the days of Extract’s original cart on College Green.
Roasted Rituals have followed Extract’s journey but the other way around, with Extract leaving their cart to open a roastery in St Werburgh’s, and Roasted Rituals using their van to highlight the coffee from their own roastery, roasted by hand in small batches of just a few kilos at a time.
If you don’t fancy schlepping it all the way up Whiteladies Road, La Piramide is currently the guest espresso in Spicer & Cole, while single origin Karagi from Kenya can this week be found on the syphon at Full Court Press.
Roasted Rituals are currently parked outside St John’s Court from Wednesday to Friday, but hope to be operating five days a week at the earliest opportunity and also start serving a bit of food.
If the sun starts shining again, there is cold brew in Australian-style stubby bottles available from the 1963 van (almost identical to Chomp but with a bit more space inside) as well as bags of coffee to take home.
Three has become four with Roasted Rituals rolling into town- and Bristol’s speciality coffee scene has just got even better.
Roasted Rituals, St John’s Court, Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 2QY
0117 244 0098
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