Fair Shot Cafe in City of London, Westminster

Fair Shot Café’s mission is truly inspiring. By providing meaningful employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities, the café challenges stereotypes and fosters a community where diversity thrives. The staff are warm, attentive, and passionate about what they do, and you can sense the pride they take in their work. It’s heartening to see a business making such a tangible impact, blending advocacy with hospitality. The atmosphere at Fair Shot Café is nothing short of delightful. The interior is thoughtfully designed to be accessible and inviting, with a mix of modern and rustic charm that makes it the perfect spot to unwind. Whether you’re there for a quiet morning coffee or an afternoon chat with friends, the vibe is welcoming and relaxed. Fair Shot Café is more than just a café—it’s a testament to the power of inclusivity and community. Located in the bustling heart of London, it’s a place where great food and drinks meet a meaningful mission. Whether you’re drawn in by their delicious baked treats, their inclusive ethos, or the inviting atmosphere, Fair Shot Café is a must-visit destination that leaves you feeling inspired and uplifted.

Came across this cafe in London and love the concept. They're a non-profit cafe so you can enjoy great coffee here while supporting a good cause. I loved the selection of pastries they had. I was impressed with the number of vegan pastries they had including an almond croissant! I got an oatmilk latte, almond croissant and a raspberry tea cake which were delicious. Highly recommend coming here for the excellent pastry selection especially if you're vegan as you'll be amazed by the choices.

Order: 1- Americano 2- Cheese toastie with chili infused honey Seated outside as the indoors seating was full, good coffee and food. Good location being on Slingsby place.

Lovely service good coffee place was busy down a nicer quiet street

Me and my friend stumbled upon this cafe near Covent garden and was blown away by it interior so beautifully decorated and inviting. We sat at a well set out table by the window and I enjoyed a delicious chocolate brownie my friend had the pistachio crossiant ( I wish I'd ordered that we had 2 Americans they were spot on and the price marched the quality of service and rhetoric decor. Would highly recommend 👌

Beautiful crafter coffee and cakes Well worth a visit. The staff took such good care of us.

Update: This has become a favourite spot. Thank you! Divine food, fantastic value and top notch service. Fresh zingy salad and delicious sandwich 10/10. Great space which is well utilised.

The quality of food and coffee and atmosphere both excellent. Had a smoked salmon, radish, dill sauce, crème fraiche bab (absolutely delicious) and pumpkin cake. Had to wait a little while for the coffee but all tasted excellent.

Service was so slow and the place was not busy with customers. ABSOLUTELY the worst cortado I have had ever. The coffee had grinds in it was so bitter. This is my last visit. Sorry to be so harsh but you have to really try hard to mess up coffee

My favourite spot in London! The flat white is delicious, and bakery is always fresh and tasty! In addition to it is the mission of this place, buying a coffee you are helping people with learning disabilities to adapt in working environment. So, you enjoy both having a great coffee and feeling a great person))))

A café where you can stop for a while while shopping in Covent Garden, located in a quiet alley. Very friendly staff and delicious desserts and coffee.

Lovely atmosphere and personal service. The tea portion is really generous in a big glass pot which is unique in London. Only improvement I would say is lighting particularly for table 8 which has a spotlight on it. Great experience overall.

Good coffee and friendly stuff. Definitely recommend this place

Lovely cafe that serves very good coffee. Beetroot and ginger latte was new for me but surprisingly good, highly recommended!

Coffee was good. Space was large but peaceful. Toilets were excellent and clean.

A nice little spot tucked away in a quieter alley of Covent Garden. Coffee is good, and the staff is always friendly. A special thanks to Jodie, who spoiled our dog and went above and beyond to ensure our table was impeccably taken care of. Highly recommend!

Looking online for somewhere to meet in the area for coffee and cake, we chose Fair Shot partly because of it's ethical organisation, but on arrival we loved the atmosphere. The oat flat whites we had were great and the cakes delicious. Will return if in the area again.

Our first visit was really lovely and we decided to come back again - the staff were really friendly but we were met with a much larger crowd and coffee that did not meet our expectations.

What a lovely place! Competant & kind staff, great food and a cozy ambieance...definate worth a visit or two 😉

Oh what a little gem of a place! By chance we found this cafe and were drawn in by the atmosphere. Staff is super friendly and the products were served to perfection. Love the concept and the people! 5/5 would visit again!

I sent you guys art lattes please have art lattes I sent you on the email insagram etc

Staff and premises are perfectly friendly but everything about the coffee is a real disappointment…

Nice vibe here! And great drink and food options

Very nice cafe. Super nice staff who put in a lot of effort.

Have been 3 times in the last month, such a great social enterprise, offering 15 young adults each year an internship, so you do need to be patient but when the food arrives its absolutely delicious (my sister said the best cheese toastie she had ever eaten 🧀🍞) and I am going with some friends again tomorrow - highly reccommend...

I stopped by this place for a coffee and would definitely go back next time I'm in the area. The coffee was really great quality, the staff were friendly and the place had a nice atmosphere.

Cozy with amazing friendly people working there.

Food was ok. Staff member was rude and abrupt towards us, as she thought we had brought in drinks from a different cafe. We actually just had empty takeaway cups on our table because there was no bin outside! Plus we had purchased food from here. Wouldn’t go back.

Great coffee and atmosphere. Friendly staff and great service. Kep it up.

The croissant was stale, the coffee too bitter

Great cafe with excellent coffee. Wonderful and much needed initiative. Looking forward to returning!

Great cafe with very fine coffee! Staff is super nice.

Coffee is really good but service is terrible (lazy and forgetful) and they don't offer WiFi.

Friendly. Clean. Fast and delicious

I would come here every day on my lunch break if they had Wi-Fi. Service is great Food is good Coffee's great but can we have an extra large option for cups?

Lovely place in London, cozy atmosphere, super friendly staff, no waiting lines. I really love the concept of helping people with learning disabilities. I would love to see a bit more variety on the sandwiches though :)

A cafeteria where its strong point is inclusion, the coffee and pastries were also very good.

This cafe was awesome. The interior was very inviting and warm. I didn’t know the matcha came with cinnamon and when I asked about it, they refunded me for my drink and gave me a new one for free. The worker was so kind and made sure I had a good experience in this cafe. By far one of the best customer service experiences I’ve had!

one of my favourite spots in London, coffee is so good and staff are fab !!!

We had here the first breakfast of our journey and we ended up in coming all the morning of our stay in London. The food is delicious, both sweet and savoury offers, there are plenty of beverages to choose and several tables to enjoy the breakfast inside. The staff is so nice, it was a cuddle to come back and be recognized and welcomed. So happy to don't feel strangers. Highly recommended.

One of my favourite coffee shops in London! Very cute, delicious oat flat whites and helps with a wonderful cause

Nice coffee and very friendly service. Get your coffee here and support this initiative to help people who work here with a learning disability!

Really good coffee, helpful staff and even better cause.

Hello, how can I contact you? Do you have an email? Or a phone number. Thank you.

Amazing food, matcha, and vibes. The staff was wonderful!! What an amazing mission I wish I lived in London so I could come every day.

Easily my favourite cafe in London! The food (salted caramel brownie) and coffee (iced vanilla latte) was incredible, and such a welcoming and accessible environment. I wear a mask because of my disability, and the barista saw and put a mask on to interact with me, which was the sweetest thing and made the experience a lot safer for me! Love this place so much!

Great Café with an admirable concept and very relaxing atmosphere. I recommend the Salted Caramel Brownie!

An amazing spot with a great cause!

Such a friendly team! enjoyed the coffee and the croissant 🥐 🤗🥰

Just ducked in for a coffee but ended up deciding to have it in because it’s so nice. Read about the mission while having my (very nice) cappuccino and chatted a bit to the staff. I think I have a new fav place for when I’m in the area!

This is a cafe working in a, worthy cause... but don't be lulled in to thinking you'll have make do and mend here, it's an excellent cafe and definitely worth a visit. Please go if you're in the Covent Garden area

Had a great experience in the cafe today. Met some lovely staff and had beautiful coffee with croissants. A hidden gem with an ever better message behind it. Such a great idea 😊

I have not yet had the opportunity to visit the cafe in person. However, I am an autistic young adult who was interested in Fair Shot's traineeship/apprenticeship program for learning disabled and/or autistic young adults, as I would love to work in the hospitality industry (especially as I'm studying for a BSc in Nutrition & Health). I enquired in mid July, and the website says that you'd get back in touch when applications open with an invite to an open evening. I am aware of the possibility I simply enquired too late, but it seems you didn't even have the courtesy to reply to either the email I sent over a month ago (18th of July; I went through my entire spam too and nothing was there) or a follow up Instagram direcy message sent over a week ago (16th of August), even if it was to let me know that unfortunately I had had enquired too late and I should try again next year. In all honesty, it's really disappointing. Especially that, given your ethos, an EHCP is a requirement of the program. I understand if you're running a apprenticeship program specifically for autistic and learning disabled young people you need proof of disability. I just think requiring an EHCP is the wrong way to go about it when many autistic people, myself included, do not meet the criteria to have an EHCP. My local council will only issues EHCP's for people with exceptional special educational needs. My needs aren't super exceptional compared to profoundly autistic people who need more care and support than I do, but it doesn't mean I'm not autistic, and I should still be able to enquire about this program because I would find a mainstream learning environment difficult.

An amazing cafe, flet so welcoming. It's really nice that they help people with learning difficulties get into paid employment. This I really appreciate having a family member who has autism. The food choice seemed limited bit I had the most delicious beetroot focachia which was surprisingly filling. There's a great choice of hot drinks. Definitely recommend the fresh mint tea!

Great little coffee place. Good coffee but more importantly a place that does great things for the community. Give it a go!

Lovely place! Lovely service! Very nice spot! Perfect coffee! Delicious sandwiches!

Super nice and very good coffee

What a beautiful place! Best coffee in London 👍🏼The world needs more spaces like this. ♥️

Great coffee and really nice salad, good prices and awesome mission!

Delicious pastries and cake and lovely atmosphere. Staff were very friendly too! We love the mission of the cafe as well. Maybe not the best place to work as the staff advised me to connect to the wifi at a nearby shop but I was unable to do so.

Extremely poor service at this cafe. Avoid

Had a bowl (salad) plus cappuccino & iced coffee. Everything was very tasty and great price. Great concept & nice staff!

Relaxed atmosphere, delicious food and drinks!

Amazing coffee. Service was great. They live up to their name of fair shot in both coffee quality and offering those with learning needs a place to work if they wish. Atmosphere is nice and relaxed with a good snack selection.

Absolutely loved visiting @fairshotcafe today the whole ethos of the place is amazing, the team were brilliant and fun. Giving everyone “a fair shot” is the ethos and it is wonderful.

Excellent latte and very large croissants !

Very good atmosphere, excellent service and most importantly: great coffee!

The fact that this place exists makes feel better about the world. Great food (toasted chorizo and roast potato focaccia) but with the benefit of trying to do something good for people who need it.

It's a great coffee shop. The staff take good care of people with disabilities. The food is also very good. I recommend everyone to come to Covent Garden shopping when you are tired.

NO WI-FI! Don’t come here hoping to work because they don’t have WiFi anymore - also sorry but food is pricey even for London and not so good. And I just spent 10£ thinking I could work here but gonna have to go elsewhere

Very cute space and of course, the intent/mission of this space is simply wonderful. I came in for just a quick coffee and pastry, but ended up lingering a bit longer to pass time because it was just that pleasant! Prices was very affordable.

Delicious salads, they also had lots of choices of cakes and pastries.

So nice place: people, atmosphere, food, Precious place in London

It was amazing coffee full of energy super friendly

A very disappointing experience. Unfortunately when we arrived the whole restaurant was very dirty and there was no clean place to sit. Unfortunately they had also run out of ice and therefore we couldn’t get a cold drink. There was a very small choice of pastries.

Nice place. Good coffee in a relaxed atmosphere. Great concept

Passed by this little gem when I randomly strolled around. I was so excited to find great hot chocolate and chocolate pastry here! Even more excited about their initiative! Their staff were all lovely! Love! This! Place!

Amazing service, cute pink shop, great intentions behind it. Also awesome lattes. 10/10

The courgette sandwich tastes amazing and has a generous amount, the focaccia was so crunchy and warm. The coffee was good enough. A homeless person came in and started to talk to me, but the staff dealt with the situation quite quickly.

Lovely Cafe! The Pistachio Croissant was incredibly delicious

Friendly and timely service, lovely atmosphere and desserts!

Delicious coffee and very friendly atmosphere, also very good with special requests and has decent rest rooms👌

Lovely coffee and pastry spot. The staff is sweet and charming, the croissants we had were delicious. Definitely the warmest recommendation to visit!

A great cause, they should be very proud of all the good they are doing with thier training program helping people with disabilities get into the workplace. What a great way to teach hospitality in readiness for future jobs in the working world! The staff trainees all lovely, well managed, friendly and the food and beverages excellent too.

I loved visiting this cafe and the vanilla latte was wonderful. I stayed longer than planned because it felt so welcoming.

Lovely place; there was a practise fire alarm, and they gave us free muffins in gratitude! I would deffinatly come back again! 😊😊

5 star+ in my opinion! Warm staff, delicious food & coffee and a smartly finished space. Super, super stuff 👏🏼

Great not for profit cafe with a wonderful ethos/ programme. Food was delicious and service fab! Good value so add a donation to your bill for this worthy cause!

Found this place by mistake but so glad I did. Lovely space, very nice decor. Coffee served super fast and with a friendly smile. Nice coffee too. Tick!

I ordered an iced chia latte with oat milk for £4.50, but it was mostly ice. Although it tasted good, I'm disappointed with the small amount of liquid for the price. I finished it in one sip!!!! Therefore, I'm leaving them a very low review.

Stumbled upon Fair Shot Café with my family and decided to give it a try as coffee looked good in a nice relaxed setting. Service was excellent with coffee arriving quickly. On reading a leaflet whilst enjoying my coffee I then started to understand the ethos behind the café - 95% of people with a disability are unemployed and that they are set to change that giving them the training and experience for a career in hospitality. All I can say is that it was the best coffee and service I’ve had in a cafe for a long time which speaks volumes…

Nice place and simple menu Quality coffee Good location Something to try that is not the usual high st coffee shop Banana bread is really good here

Very nice place, and very fair concept. We enjoyed drinking our coffee and taking breakfast

I recently visited this cafe, hoping to support its good mission, but unfortunately my experience left much to be desired. Despite the high prices, the quality of the food fell short! I paid £8 for a salted beef bagel, only to find it severely lacking in beef!!! Also, please be aware that the cafe enforces a strict no-laptop and WiFi policy on weekends, which can be inconvenient for those who works in different patterns. Thus, the disconnection between the cafe’s name and its actual practices is totally disappointing. Never again!

amazing initiative, great coffee and lovely atmosphere 🩷

Lovely place with really good coffee and better people. It’s a very spacious place which is rare for a coffee shop around Covent Garden. Fair shot’s initiative is really commendable

A positive little gem of a place - highly recommended. Service excellent, staff warm and friendly and fabulous choice of food and drinks.

"Fair Cafe is an absolute delight! Their coffee, especially the decaf latte and flat white, is simply outstanding. Each sip is a burst of rich flavor and smooth texture, making it a must-visit spot for coffee enthusiasts. The attention to detail in crafting these beverages truly shines through, ensuring a consistently excellent experience with every visit. Beyond the fantastic coffee, the ambiance of Fair Cafe is cozy and inviting, providing the perfect setting to enjoy a cup of joe. The friendly staff further elevate the experience, making you feel right at home from the moment you walk in. Whether you're in need of a caffeine fix or simply looking for a welcoming cafe to relax in, Fair Cafe has you covered. Five stars without a doubt for their exceptional coffee and wonderful atmosphere!"

Coffee was great. So does the bakery 😋

Been here several times now and love it.