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26/10/2026
In Yemen’s Bait Alal village, 65-year-old coffee farmer Ali Subaih and his brother learned the trade beside their father.
The two brothers took over their father’s farm, and their sons now work alongside them. One family. One farm. Three generations. And no plans to stop growing coffee.
Named after the man who sees coffee as the wealth of all Yemenis, the Ali Sabah is one of our seven new coffee line ups. Processed Natural. Variety is Yemenia – the mother population found nowhere else on Earth. With notes of chamomile, blackberry, plum, wampee, caramel, chocolate, and almond cookie.
Available as pour-over in our cafes, or to buy online. Try a sip of deep-rooted coffee tradition today.
25/10/2026
Some pastries you eat. Some you stop and admire first.
Our new Coffee, Raspberry & Hibiscus Square brings together delicate layers of golden, buttery pastry, raspberry and hibiscus cream, and a sponge soaked in raspberry-infused La Pradera coffee from Colombia.
Pristine until the first bite. Then it’s all crunch.
Part of our new pastry lineup, freshly baked every morning and available at Qima Café Fitzrovia and Covent Garden.
23/10/2026
Hadhramaut, in southeastern Yemen, is the region we named this dish after.
Hadhrami traders carried their flavours from Yemen to Zanzibar, Singapore and India for centuries. Today, we bring them to London.
The chicken is brined in a spice blend from Hadhramaut, roasted, then served on crispy potatoes with shiitake velouté and our signature house gravy.
A weekend roast at Qima Café Covent Garden, best with a Qishr lemonade alongside.
Book it as a Qima Experience on OpenTable, link in bio. Join our loyalty programme after your meal and we’ll add a complimentary brunch item to your next visit.
22/10/2026
Six new pastries have landed at Qima Café, with something for your sweet tooth and a few savoury surprises too.
The Pecan Pie Danish; Coffee, Raspberry & Hibiscus Square; and Cinnamon & Pistachio Brioche Roll. Just a taste of what's new. There’s also a Cheddar & Marmite Butterfly, a Pesto, Sundried Tomato & Bocconcini Swirl, and plenty of reasons to order more than one.
One with your morning coffee? Absolutely. Two? We won't judge.
Find the new lineup at Fitzrovia and Covent Garden.
Which one are you trying first?
21/10/2026
Coffee culture did not begin in a café. It began on mountain farms in Yemen, centuries before espresso existed, then entering the world as a commodified product through Yemen's port of Mocha.
Yemen is also where Qima began, and where four of our latest release come from.
Majid Mather, Bani Ofair, Bait Rumaim Honey and Ali Subaih. Four new Yemeni coffees, now on the shelf at Qima Café.
Each one carries the decisions that shaped it: the farm, the family, the processing, the roast. We know those decisions because we have spent a decade working alongside the people who made them.
Available as roasted whole bean in store and online, and as pourover at the bar. All from our Revolutionary collection. Come and have a taste of the exceptional.
20/10/2026
Almost too pretty to cut into. Almost.
Our Yuzu & Basil Tart brings bright citrus, white chocolate and basil-soaked almond sponge together in a dessert that is as delicate as it is vibrant.
Find it now at Qima Café.
19/10/2026
We all know the sting of a missed opportunity. Here’s your chance to get it parfait.
Going once, going twice! Final 2 weeks before our Parfaits are taken off the menu for another year.
Choose between the Honeydew Melon & Matcha, and the Strawberry, Raspberry & Pistachio.
Reserve your spot! Bookings on weekends only. Link in bio.
18/10/2026
Cascara ('husk' in Spanish) is the name of the dried outer husks of coffee cherries. In Yemen, as the coffee beans travelled the world, the cascara stayed home.
Dried and brewed with ginger and spice, Yemeni farmers called this new infusion Qishr, and it is still poured across the country today.
At Qima, we blend this original Qishr with espresso and milk, over some ice, to create the creamy, fruity, coffee-licious Qishr Cloud.
One of our signature drinks, available now at Qima Café, Fitzrovia and Covent Garden. Come and give it a try.
16/10/2026
A sneak peek at what’s coming to our counters soon.
At Qima, we take pride in overseeing all aspects of the coffee supply chain. Our baked goods are no different.
Earlier this week, our Covent Garden and Fitzrovia-based bakers & baristas trained with our central kitchen chefs to ensure that every bite you take is exactly as they intended.
Our team is prepped & ready to serve. Are you ready to indulge?
15/10/2026
One of each, on the table.
A Hadhramaut Roasted Half Chicken, brined in spices from eastern Yemen and finished with shiitake velouté and Qima house gravy.
A Slow-Braised Short Rib, cooked until it falls apart. Crispy potatoes, cauliflower purée, carrots glazed in Yemeni Sidr honey.
This is our Weekend Roast for two. The British ritual, served Qima style.
Book it as a Qima Experience via open table (link in bio). Join the loyalty programme at the end of your meal, and your next brunch item is on us.
That’s your weekend roast sorted.
14/10/2026
Can you handle our new coffee line up?
Four from Yemen, two from Colombia, and one from Uganda.
Yemen has always occupied a strange place in coffee: part origin story, part obsession, part myth.
It is also where Qima began.
For the past decade, we have worked across Yemen’s coffee lands, building relationships with farmers, investing in processing, supporting cultivation, and learning what it takes to carry these coffees from tree to cup with greater care.
This latest release brings four new Yemeni coffees to Qima Café: Majid Mather, Bani Ofair, Bait Rumaim Honey and Ali Subaih.
Four coffees shaped by mountain farms, rare genetics and generations of knowledge. Two are natural processed. One is Carbonic Honey. One is processed using Alchemy XV, our proprietary protocol built through more than 1,300 experiments. Together, they offer four very different ways into Yemen.
That is what Tree-to-Cup looks like for us. Not simply sourcing exceptional coffee, but knowing the farms, the people, the processing and the decisions that shaped it long before it reaches the bar.
Available now as pourover at Qima Café and as roasted whole bean in-store and online.
10/10/2026
The drink we’d put next to a weekend roast.
Bright, citrusy and gently sweet, the Qishr Lemonade cuts through the richness of the plate and keeps everything feeling light.
Especially good with the Hadhramaut Roasted Half Chicken and Slow-Braised Short Rib at Qima Café Covent Garden.
A very good reason to order both.
09/10/2026
Have you booked for this weekend yet?
Our Hadhramaut Roasted Half Chicken is brined in a spice blend from Yemen’s Hadhramaut region, roasted whole, then finished with shiitake velouté and Qima house gravy.
Available Saturdays and Sundays at Qima Café Covent Garden only.
Book it as a Qima Experience and we’ll add a complimentary brunch item to your next visit.
Book via the link in bio.
08/10/2026
Some desserts deserve a little ceremony. Tall, layered, delicate and almost too beautiful to start with.
Choose between Honeydew Melon & Matcha or Strawberry, Raspberry & Pistachio, with recipes made with Chef Asako.
Available exclusively as a bookable weekend experience at Qima Café Covent Garden. Book via Link in Bio.
Come hungry for something a little extraordinary.
07/10/2026
The Slow-Braised Short Rib is cooked until it falls apart, served with crispy potatoes, cauliflower purée, charred lemon, crispy chilli oil and carrots glazed in Yemeni Sidr honey.
Rich, slow-cooked and made for the weekend.
Available Saturdays and Sundays at Qima Café Covent Garden only.
Book it as a Qima Experience and we’ll add a complimentary brunch item to your next visit. One complimentary brunch item for every Weekend Roast booked.
Book via the link in bio.
06/10/2026
Six new coffees have landed at Qima Café. Four of them from Yemen.
Come taste them at the bar, take a bag home, or shop the full line-up online.
05/10/2026
Three ways to discover qishr.
Feeling fresh? Go for the Qishr Lemonade: qishr, lemon and a little sweetness, bright, juicy and ridiculously easy to drink.
Want something softer? The Qishr Cloud brings espresso, milk and cascara cream together over ice. Creamy, fruity, coffee-forward and just indulgent enough.
And if you’re after something warmer, the Qishr Latte layers espresso and qishr with cardamom and ginger for something aromatic, spiced and deeply comforting.
Which one are you ordering?
03/10/2026
The olive oil on our manakish comes from a single village in the hills northwest of Ramallah.
It arrives [email protected] , a collective that works directly with Palestinian farmers, bringing single-estate oils to the table and telling the story of the people who make them. Ours is the Dier Abu Mash'al Rumi Cold Pressed, grown and picked by hand by Nader and Zakher Zahran, two brothers who tend their family's groves through the year and press within hours of harvest. One season, one place, one family. Fresh and green, with a soft bitterness and a clean, peppery finish.
There is a familiar logic to it. Direct relationships, one origin, the value kept close to the people who did the work. The same principles that shape everything we pour, here poured over the bread instead.
Freshly baked manakish, finished the way it's meant to be. Covent Garden, weekends only, 10 to 5.
02/10/2026
The Sunday roast is a ritual most of Britain knows by heart. A bird in the oven, the table set, the afternoon built around it.
Roasting spiced meat, though, is not only a British idea. In Hadhramaut, the ancient region of eastern Yemen shaped by centuries of spice trade across the Indian Ocean, slow-cooked and heavily spiced meat has anchored the table for just as long. Two traditions, far apart on the map, built around the same instinct. Gather people. Cook something properly. Take your time.
The Qima Hadhramaut Roasted Half Chicken sits where those two traditions meet. Brined in a spice blend from the Hadhramaut region, roasted, and finished with a shiitake velouté and Qima house gravy. Familiar enough to feel like Sunday. Different enough to be worth the trip.
At Covent Garden, weekends only. This is what weekends are for. And for a limited time, book either as a Qima Experience and your next brunch is on us.
01/10/2026
A new roasted and pour-over line-up is on its way to Qima Café, led by fresh Yemeni crop with Colombia and Uganda alongside them.
The cafés come next. For now, the new range is available online.
Order now. Link in bio.
Address
21 Warren Street, Fitzrovia
London
W1T 5LT
To get to Warren Street by public transport, you can take the Underground on the Victoria line or the Northern line and alight at Warren Street station. From there, walk east for a few minutes until you reach the coffee shop.
If you prefer to drive, there are a number of car parks in the area including NCP Car Park London Regents Park and Q-Park Brunswick Square. Once parked, walk west towards Warren Street until you find the coffee shop. Note that parking in this area can be expensive and limited during peak hours.
Opening Hours
| Monday |
8am - 7pm |
| Tuesday |
8am - 7pm |
| Wednesday |
8am - 7pm |
| Thursday |
8am - 7pm |
| Friday |
8am - 7pm |
| Saturday |
9am - 7pm |
| Sunday |
9am - 5pm |
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What people say
Qima Cafe, located on Warren Street in London, is a coffee shop that offers life-changing coffee. Their curated pour-over selection is a must-try, and their lovely barista team can guide you through the different offerings to suggest a brew that you'll really love.
But it's not just about the coffee at Qima Cafe. They also offer delicious treats like the Colombian Tropical Jute Bag - a light almond sponge layered with a juicy mango, pineapple, and passion-fruit compote infused with a subtle hint of kaffir lime, all encased in a luscious yoghurt and Madagascan vanilla mousse.
Qima Coffee's ethos lies in generating sustainable livelihoods through coffee sourcing operations. With almost half a million small holder coffee farmers in Colombia alone, Qima Cafe is the perfect place to experience the vibrant flavors of an incredible origin while building a deeper understanding of the coffee sector.
Their range of roasted coffees are meticulously sourced from tree to your cup, ensuring that every sip is of the highest quality. So why not pamper yourself with a perfect pour-over pick-me-up or indulge in one of their delicious treats at Qima Cafe? It's not just about enjoying great coffee; it's about supporting an equitable industry and making a positive impact on the world.
