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Slow mornings, proper coffee & bakes fresh from 7.

A small coffee house and bakery in Brighton’s North Laine. Everything is baked downstairs before we open, and the coffee is roasted a few streets away.

14 Gardner St, Brighton Dogs very welcome
Inside a cosy café with a long wooden table, pendant lights and a counter of bakes
Flat white with latte art, seen from above

Out of the oven

Today’s bakes, live.

The board updates through the day, so you know if the cardamom buns are still there before you walk over. (They go fast.)

Tray of golden croissants on the café counter
146bakes made this morning, all by hand, starting at 5am

The bake board

Updated just now

Order ahead

Skip the queue. Grab & go.

Build your order, pick a time, and it’ll be waiting on the counter with your name on it.

01Your drink

02Size & milk

03Something to go with it?

04Pick-up time

Regulars

Your 9th coffee is on us.

No app to download. We stamp your card at the till, or you can collect stamps when you order ahead. Go on, give it a tap.

Wren & RyeCoffee card

Tap a circle to stamp it.

Barista pouring latte art into a white cup

Who we are

“We wanted the kind of place you’d walk ten minutes out of your way for. Good coffee, bakes that sell out, and nobody rushing you out the door.”
Ellie & TomOwners, since 2019
5amOvens on, every day
2 streetsFrom our roaster
0Plastic cups
Rows of freshly baked croissants
Every morning, 5am
Round café table with a coffee and an open book
The reading corner
Café tables outside on the street
Tables out front
Croissant on a dark plate with a jug of milk
Butter, lots of it

Visit

Come and say hello.

Two minutes from Brighton station, on the corner with the yellow door.

14 Gardner Street
North Laine, Brighton
BN1

Dogs welcomeFree wifiStep-free entranceLaptop-free tables at weekendsCard & cash

Opening hours

The Friday bake list

One short email a week: what’s new on the counter and the odd sourdough class.