Crosby Coffee is an independent speciality coffee roaster from Liverpool. It was founded in 2014 by Jack Foster, who named it after Crosby, the village he grew up in, and he runs it with his business partner Mark. Today they roast in Liverpool's Ten Streets district, run four cafés, and supply coffee to hundreds of businesses across the UK.
How it started
Jack's old job took him to London for weeks at a time, and he spent his spare hours in the city's roasteries and speciality coffee shops. Places like that didn't exist in the North West back then, and he decided the coffee scene at home needed a lift.
He started by roasting at home, first in a popcorn machine and then on small home roasters, and got hooked on the science of roasting and brewing. The coffee that sparked it all was a Kenyan filter from the Regeju region. Jack spent around 18 months researching before he set the business up properly, working full time and visiting other roasters whenever he could.
From a popcorn machine to a Loring
Crosby Coffee started on a 1kg Toper roaster and moved up to a 10kg Toper after just a month. That roaster has a special story: it's named Jan, after Jack's auntie, who died of cancer before he started the company. His uncle lent him the money to buy it, so naming it after her felt right. A 30kg Toper followed in 2018 to keep up with wholesale orders.
In 2025 the team installed a Loring S35 roaster, which replaced the Toper production set-up. Jan is no longer in use, but she's kept on display in the roastery, and you can see her through the window from the roastery café.
The Ten Streets roastery
Crosby Coffee's roastery is in Liverpool's Ten Streets district, the old warehouse area north of the city centre, with a café alongside it so you can see where your coffee is roasted. From here the team roasts for its cafés, its online shop and the hundreds of cafés, restaurants and businesses it supplies.
How they choose and roast their coffee
Jack, Mark and the team focus on three things: sourcing great coffee, carefully developing their roast profiles, and making speciality coffee approachable. They go through samples from each new crop to keep their current coffees consistent and choose the next ones to buy, then test roast profiles until each coffee tastes its best.
Jack's favourite origin is Kenya, for its bright flavours and full body. It takes him back to the Regeju coffee that started it all.
Four cafés, and a fifth on the way
Crosby Coffee has cafés at Lark Lane, Hightown and Waterloo, as well as at the Ten Streets roastery, and its next café is on the way at Eastbank in Southport.
A new look
In March 2026 Crosby Coffee launched new branding and recyclable coffee packaging, with a clean new CROSBY wordmark.
Jack's advice for new roasters
"Research!" Take your time, visit other coffee shops and roasters, and work out what you like and don't like about their businesses. Never rush into anything.
Visit or buy their coffee
You can buy Crosby Coffee online from the Crosby Coffee website, which also lists their cafés and barista courses, or follow them on Facebook.
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