Uncommon Ground is an independent, family owned and operated, speciality coffee bar situated in Cardiff’s historical Royal Arcade.  We are two local brothers, Paul and Ian Hayman, who have devoted our passion for coffee into roasting and serving the finest, freshest, and expertly prepared coffee to the people of Cardiff since opening in March of 2015.  Our love of great coffee now manifests itself daily through the business we have created and enables us to provide Cardiff with an entirely unique experience for fellow coffee admirers.

Alongside our coffee bar in Cardiff, we have a separate roasting facility located just outside of the city centre.  This is where we roast and blend our “Original Uncommon Ground Espresso”, along with our selection of single origin specialty coffees – both for use in our own coffee bar, as well as supplying personal and wholesale retailers across the country.

Quite simply, we want to get you brewing and drinking better coffee.  In order for us to be successful at what we do here at Uncommon Ground, we harvest a tremendous amount of respect for the roasting process – it is the most crucial phase of coffee production that unveils the full flavour profiles of the 100% Arabica beans we proudly source and use.  It is within this intricate roasting process that each individual flavour and characteristic of the various coffee beans can either be displayed, greatly intensified, or just as easily diminished.

We want to showcase the individual qualities of the coffees we serve, meaning that we don’t want to taste the influence of the roasting process – it should merely be a process by which we unlock the coffee’s potential. To ensure we achieve the consistency that our customers expect, we employ a combination of roasting intelligence software, strict quality control and good old fashioned honesty to guarantee that every bag of coffee you receive exceeds the exceptional standards of both the customer and of ourselves as the proud producers of fine coffee.