Brighton Coffee Festival
Brighton Coffee Festival Returns to All Saints This August
Brighton Coffee Festival began in 2019, born out of a city with one of the UK's strongest independent coffee scenes and no single event dedicated to bringing that community together. It was built to be exactly that and it's sold out every year since - growing tenfold from where it started.
The idea came from Oli, Tom and Dan, who each knew Brighton's coffee scene from a different angle. Oli and Tom had been branching into specialty coffee through Blend Coffee Co, while Dan was behind the Independent Brighton & Hove Coffee Guide, documenting the cafés and roasters that make the city such a destination for coffee lovers. Together, they saw space for an event that celebrated the people behind the cups as much as the coffee itself.
"This city has a coffee community that supports one another - and Brighton Coffee Festival is the weekend that allows that community to come together and celebrate everything that's great about the local scene."
That sense of community still sits at the heart of the festival. While specialty coffee continues to grow - from experienced baristas to people experimenting with their first home setup - the festival has grown alongside it, creating a space where everyone can learn something new.
Hundreds of free samples from local, national and international roasters are included with your ticket, alongside bookable workshops, talks and panel discussions covering everything from brewing techniques and coffee origins to building a career in the industry. On the main stage, the Latte Art Championships and the UK & Ireland Filter Championships bring a healthy dose of competition to the weekend.
All Saints: A Church Turned Coffee Festival
This year the festival returns to All Saints in Hove - a striking Victorian church that becomes an entirely different space for one weekend each summer.
"Although it's a fully working church, we take the full weekend and transform it into a spectacle of specialty coffee across the main space and ancillary spaces."
Full of history and character, it's an unusual venue that somehow feels completely natural once the espresso machines start running.
The Brew Bar
For our readers, the Brew Bar is one to watch.
While exhibitors travel from across the UK and beyond, the Brew Bar puts Brighton's own cafés centre stage - showcasing some of the independent businesses that make the city's coffee scene so well loved.
"Coffee shops are where people normally begin their journey into specialty, and to be able to showcase some of the best and brightest from Brighton on the Brew Bar is a really great way to highlight the baristas and businesses that keep this city ticking seven days a week."
This year's Brew Bar features:
Komodo
A cosy espresso and filter bar with a quality-first approach to coffee
Built around rotating specialty roasters, with homemade bakes.
Serving single origin coffee roasted in Sussex with a rotating guest program brew bar.
Ikigai: a Japanese-inspired shop known for its single origin pour-overs, matcha lattes and in-house bakery.
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Whether you've spent years chasing the perfect espresso or simply love discovering a good independent café, Brighton Coffee Festival is one of those weekends that shows you exactly what this city's coffee scene is made of.
Brighton Coffee Festival takes place on 8–9 August 2026 at All Saints, Hove, across two sessions each day. Tickets are live.
Beyond Brighton
Brighton Coffee Festival is one of four run by Husky Events, alongside Belfast, Dublin and Manchester. The company has operated regional coffee festivals and competitions since 2018.
Same organisers, same operational backbone - different city each time. If Brighton's your first, it's not a bad excuse for a second trip.
