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Metro Coffee is a charming coffee shop located in the bustling transport hub of Gants Hill Station, serving freshly brewed coffee and light bites that are perfect for a quick refuel or relaxed catch-up with friends. Despite its small size, this coffee shop exudes warmth and hospitality, making it a popular choice for commuters and locals alike. Whether customers are looking for a caffeine boost to start their day or a cozy spot to unwind, Metro Coffee is the perfect destination.

Recent social media posts

12/05/2026

After 8 years of learning we are finally working on our product brandings. Inspired by wonderful SEND volunteers and staff members, our journey has been full of love, kindness and compassion. So we would like to get your feedback to see naming each drink with a positive word will be a good idea? As we aim and try to spread some love, kindness and compassion that our SEND Volunteers and staff have in abundance to our society through our work 🙏🙏🙏

10/04/2026

We have launched our first ever Fundraising/Awareness Campaign "The ONE Campaign" where we are raising £1 from 30,000 community members within London Borough of Redbridge and wider. The amount raised will go towards supporting people with Learning Disability and various other Neurodivergent to help them build more skills and confidence through our Volunteer Training Programme. So far, we have supported and self funded 15 incredible neurodivergent talents. But to continue our programme and help us build a self sustainable social business model to create more jobs for people with Learning Disability and other additional needs, we would like to request if you could kindly donate £1 and tag this campaign to one friend of your choice to help us create more awareness and spread the word quicker within the community. Your small donation will go a long way and life changing. For more detail please visit our fundraising page.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/xnZ1zQgW?utm_campaign=thanksShare&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=shortlink

We hereby nominate our wonderful star and massive Mental Health Advocate.
Chizzy Akudolu

Thank you Chizzy for all your support so far ❤️🙏

20/03/2026

Happy EID AL- FITR to everyone who celebrates this wonderful festive day . No matter what religion we all follow showing respect to each other can lead to greater prosperity and peace ❤️🎇🎉

17/03/2026

Gabrielle learning how to prepare Sandwiches this morning. Always a pleasure & joy working with Gabrielle 🙂👍❤️

23/02/2026

Great to be part of Humanities Hack 2026 today as part of University of Westminster programme of engaging students with employers before they jump off to their respective career fields.

09/02/2026

"Our Journey To The Hidden Stars" is finally up. We would like to thank everyone who has supported directly and indirectly during this journey.

Special Thanks to for helping us narrate our story. We couldn't thank her enough for supporting us and for making us believe even more to continue in our journey. Sometimes you need someone to believe in your work just to give that extra push. Than you Chizzy.

We would also like to thank all our staff members who hasn't been mentioned in this short story: Joe, Hana, Farhana, Lucian, Sharon, Deborah, Maria, Sara, Zubair, Gurminder, Aileen, Enrika, Himani, Haroon, Harsh*tha, Yagna, Aileen, Laura, Chris, Irina, Daanyal, Emilia, Karleen, Inthesar and lastly our wonderful family members, friends, Parents, TFL, London Borough of Redbridge, University of Westminster, Uniting Friends, Sophia (Illuminous Snaps), Kash, and our wonderful customers who all have contributed massively in our Journey so far.

We hope to continue our work and try to make positive impact in our community to find more hidden stars 🙏❤️

07/02/2026

Our long awaited video "Our Journey To The Hidden Stars " which took us 8 years to make, will be released tomorrow 8th Feb Sunday at 8pm in our

YouTube Channel: Metro Coffee UK
YouTube Video Link: https://youtu.be/lcqf6bcTiK0.

We would like to express our sincere and massive thanks to for being an angel voice and helping us narrate our story.

05/01/2026

We have launched our new website as part of our campaign to connect with more community members and promote our social business. Website includes our community engagement page which reflects what we have done last year to engage with various stakeholders within the community, The One Campaign which will be launched very soon now and our story which inspired us to be where and why we are doing it...

We would also like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year and wish you all a progressive and successful new year. Thank you all for your kind support. We will try to go extra mileage this year and with all your blessings we hope to achieve our targets for this year 🙏

25/12/2025

We would like to wish everyone a Happy and wonderful Christmas. Hope, this wonderful festival will give us all the strength to cherish all the good and difficult moments throughout the year, give us strength to cherish and make some great memories and most importantly spend some precious time with our family, think about our loved ones and our wonderful community...

Thank you all. Have a wonderful Xmas and a festive break 🎄🎄🎄🙏

19/12/2025

Thank you Cynthia & Mel for creating this lovely Christmas card box. We almost there now for the festive week we all been waiting for 🎉🥳🎊🎉

17/12/2025

Today we had a chat with Daniel who is homeless & sleeps rough in Gants Hill Station. Surprisingly it may be due to cold weather this morning three homeless people Tyler, Desmond and their friend came in to ask for a hot drink and gave it to them. But then we had a 4th one Daniel who came to ask for a Hot Chocolate. Once we made him a drink, we asked his story and what led him to become homeless.

He said, he was married but got divorced, has a 5 year old daughter. When he got divorced he couldn't handle it as he suffered from anxiety, personality disorder, ADHD and depression. It led him to drugs and eventually into living in the streets.

We know Tyler too as he said he also suffered from Autism and other Mental Health Conditions and surprisingly been to Nepal too few years back.

So if people who suffer from Mental Health conditions are not diagnosed in time and do not have a right support mechanism. It can lead them into drugs and become homeless. All we can do is do our bit to raise the awareness and hopefully try to get to the root cause of it before they even decide to live homeless lives 😞🙏

13/12/2025

It's time we start connecting with our community members and make our journey even more special. Last 8 years has been tough, really tough but hoping the sacrifices we have done over the years we can give something meaningful to our current and future generations 🙏

25/11/2025

Today we attended Redbridge Business Forum annual event conducted by London Borough of Redbridge. Great to see party leaders, councillors and important members of the council along with business organizations & entrepreneurs chip in their feedback and concerns. Discussed about the annual budget the council works on, their upcoming budget forecast & things we could improve on. Amazing to see how much of their budget is spent on Adult Social Care and dealing with homelessness within the borough. We hope we can contribute something to address some of those issues going forward. Thank you for inviting us 🙏

24/11/2025

Last few years has been a rollercoaster of a ride. When we first opened our first kiosk at Gants Hill Station, London in 2017 we never thought we will have the pleasure to work with people with learning difficulties, Autism, Down Syndrome and many more. It has taken us 7 plus years to grind down and learn first before we felt comfortable in sharing how we could help find solutions to this growing unprecedented social problem where people with additional needs find it ever so hard to find a job. After years of learning we feel we need to create such a business model from top to bottom which suits their soul and needs. SIMPLE - HUMBLE - LOVE. Finally after years of learning we will soon be launching ONE CAMPAIGN which itself is a very humbling campaign to help try to tackle this very issue. Coming Soon...

10/11/2025

We had much to celebrate yesterday. It was one of our super regular customer Roland's 73rd birthday, Metro Coffee's 8th year and met Mel after few weeks. Glad to celebrate precious moments with your work colleague and well wishers who feels like family after so many years together. Dahlia our little one managed to attend it too which made it even more precious & special for us ❤️🎉🎊🎉

05/11/2025

Celebrating Gabrielle's birthday last week. She was our very first SEND Employee and we wish her nothing but happiness and success. We are glad still after 7 years after we met we are still in touch and working together.

Address

Gants Hill Station, London, Zone 4
Ilford
IG2 6UD

To get to the coffee shop near Gants Hill Station in Ilford, you have a few options:

Public Transport:
- Take the Central Line (red line) to Gants Hill Station.
- Exit the station and turn left onto Eastern Avenue (A12).
- Walk down Eastern Avenue for around 2 minutes until you reach the coffee shop.

Driving/Parking:
- Enter "Gants Hill Station" into your GPS or navigation system.
- From Eastern Avenue (A12), turn onto Cranbrook Road.
- Take the first right onto Clarence Avenue and follow it until you reach the parking lot.
- Park in the lot and walk back to Clarence Avenue.
- Turn left and walk for less than 1 minute until you reach the coffee shop.

Opening Hours

Monday	5:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	5:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	5:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday	5:30am - 4:30pm
Friday	5:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday	6am - 11am

Website

http://www.metrocoffee.co.uk/

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What people say

Metro Coffee, located in Gants Hill Station, Ilford, is a small coffee shop with a big heart. They provide comfort and sustenance to commuters and locals alike. The team at Metro Coffee is dedicated to making a positive impact in their community, as evidenced by their recent social media posts. They have just celebrated their 5th anniversary and are now a social enterprise. Their journey story, "The Metro Coffee Story," is available for free download on their website. Additionally, they have recently received a delivery of top-grade specialty coffee from Brazil and Ethiopia that they will soon be serving to their customers. Metro Coffee also offers happy hour deals such as the recent offer of any size Chai Latte for £2.99. With their commitment to quality products and community involvement, Metro Coffee is definitely worth a visit for your next caffeine fix.

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