We’ve had an incredibly exciting year at KIN+ILK, filled with events, origin trips, new products, and so much more. In this blog, we’re looking back at some of the year’s highlights. But first, we want to take a moment to thank you—our amazing customers. Whether you’re a regular or joined us just once, we really appreciate your support!

The festive season is here, and we’re thrilled to announce our chosen Christmas charity for this year: Llamau, a cornerstone of support for vulnerable individuals in Cardiff and beyond.

At KIN+ILK, we take pride in knowing exactly where our coffee comes from, ensuring each cup is of the highest quality and responsibly sourced and this is all done via our direct trade relationship with our incredible farmer, Fernando Lima. 

We have thrown a few different events since starting this venture, from anniversaries, baby showers, poetry readings and so much more. We started off by offering our space for private events which went really well and we are excited to announce KIN+ILK X The Old Bank is available to use for private hire everyday of the week. 

Our brand-new summer drink menu has officially landed at KIN+ILK! Our head of coffee and drinks team has curated a selection of refreshing summer beverages. But that's not all – we're introducing an extra special drink with an incredible cause.

Join Us for a Latte Art Competition this Good Friday! Prepare for an evening of excitement on March 29th at 7pm, as we host a latte art competition at KIN+ILK St Davids! We're excited to welcome specialty coffee organisations like Boss & Brew Academy and Rhostio, alongside our own team. 

As we celebrate St David's Day today, we're excited to continue our series by tapping into the amazing KIN+ILK team, finding out their top recommendations for things to do, drinks and places to eat. So, as always, grab your favourite KIN+ILK coffee and enjoy! 

Heading the team is Simmie Vedi, with a background in fine dining and pop-ups (check out her latest one here). We recently had a chat with Simmie to understand the ins and outs of The Maltings and its significance for KIN+ILK.

As the year draws to a close, we're taking a moment to reflect on 2023.. So, grab your go-to KIN+ILK coffee, sit back, any enjoy!

It's an incredibly exciting time in KIN+ILK as we’ve changed crops for our delicious house Finca El Corozo. Finca El Corozo is directly traded in partnership with Clifton Coffee Roasters. While the origin of our coffee remains the same we have moved from honey to a washed process. This means we are celebrating the flavour of El Salvador like never before.

We have previously written a blog about the top places to eat, drink and relax in Cardiff. Since then we have asked our staff their favourite places to go (obviously apart from KIN+ILK…) Here are our top picks!

With the sun shining consistently, we wanted to bring you an exciting summer drinks menu that is both innovative and refreshing. We entrusted the incredible talents of Tom, our head of coffee and our head baristas Nico and George to create something truly special—and they did not disappoint.

We've got some exciting news brewing at KIN+ILK, and we couldn't wait to spill the (coffee) beans. We're waving goodbye to those pesky paper loyalty cards! That's right, folks! We're embracing the power of technology and introducing you to our brand-new online loyalty system, Embargo!

This week in our How to Series we’re going to be giving you the rundown on how you can recreate our vegan mushroom and ricotta dish at home - simple, easy and delicious.

When you work with coffee you quickly get used to the coffee terms that most baristas use. We often hear quiet chatter about what a long black is and why it is not long. Well, in this blog we are going to discuss a whole range of coffee terms so you can be as clued up as KIN+ILK baristas!

When you work in a speciality coffee shop you quickly get used to delicious fresh coffee so in this blog we go into the methods and equipment used to re-create it at home!

Here at KIN+ILK we aren't afraid to share our recipes. Combining garlic yoghurt, perfectly poached eggs, burnt chilli butter and sourdough, our Turkish eggs is a firm customer favourite and one of our best sellers.

As explained in our previous blog (if you haven't read it then..what are you doing?) where possible we reduce our carbon impact through our sustainability policies. We believe that there is far too much greenwashing happening in the media right now, it’s exhausting!

At KIN+ILK we operate in a way that reduces our impact on the planet to be as minimal as practically possible. This is through both reducing our footprint and offsetting unavoidable costs such as shipping Corozo from El Salvador. Grab a cup of Corozo and enjoy!

Exciting new blog post about how to make a Iced V60 - Japanese Style. Written by our wonderful Head Barista, Nico.