Garage Coffee are speciality coffee roasters, founded in 2015, and based just up the road from Canterbuy Tails in Hoath, Kent. Independents supporting independents - we love it!

"We roast in small 12kg batches for optimum quality, and only roast specialty grade coffees which are always fully traceable and fairly traded. Since launching, we have been building relationships with farmers, and sourcing coffee from the same farms season after season, with plans to make trips to these farmers in the near future!" - Garage Coffee

And we partner in more than coffee! As you'll see around our cafe we use the empty coffee sacks Garage has from importing their coffee beans, and recycle them into homemade eco-friendly cat scratchers and furniture! We use them to wrap our homemade climbing apparatus and gorgeous wooden beams to create climbing spaces and enrichment for the cat crew. This helps us and garage keep everything green, circular, and as zero waste as possible.

We are so proud to stock and support B-corp certified, independently owned tea mixologists Bird & Blend - and thrilled to enjoy their library of fun flavours any time we like! We love to swap out new blends seasonally, and have a fair few menu staple favourites available year round too!

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On top of making our own furniture, or repurposing second-hand finds, we source some of our large cat play furniture from Natural Paradise.

Natural Paradise offers high-quality products, developed by experts, whose design and function are as close to nature as possible. The materials are subject to strict quality guidelines, the soft plush used is OEKO-TEX® certified and the Baltic birch plywood comes from sustainable forestry.

NATURAL PARADISE.
DESIGNED FOR NATURAL INSTINCTS.

Eco-friendly, 100% vegan hand soaps (and more!), on a mission to eliminate plastic waste - what's not to love? Their ingredients are nasty-free, and all packaging is returnable and reusable!

We already had our own reuable soap bottle - an ex-display given to us by a friend - so we didn't buy the Miniml pump dispenser and create more plastic waste, but rest assured we only use Miniml from their bulk 5L refill bottles for our loos.

Period products that are kind to you, & the planet.

We have proudly joined forces with DAME and have purchased a dispenser to provide our customers with FREE period products while visiting us, should you find yourself in need.

DAME offer disposable and reusable period underwear, tampons, pads, cups & other accessories. Their products (and packaging!) contain no single-use plastics, are fragrance free, leak-proof, phthalate free, vegan, use no pesticides & are made with organic cotton.

All our cafe furniture is second hand fur sustainability, and becasuew we love things with history (like our 600+ year old building!). Also, as our cat crew will destroy everything eventually, sourcing second hand means we arent creating additional waste by buying new that we eventually will have to throw away and replace. We give purpose to second hand items and a second lease of life, enriching their history and ours.

The only 'new' fixures of our cafe are our disabled loo suite and kitchens - for hygiene and reliability purposes. Kitchen cupboards & drawers, unit shelving, most large appliances, and worktops were sourced from IKEA because of how customisable they are - which is perfect for our building's 'interesting' layout with need to make the most of our smaller kitchen space, and for their sustainability efforts across the board.

Winner of 38 awards, PLAYin CHOC® fuses play and creativity with learning about the importance of saving the planet - AND then adds a little treat of delicious chocolate.
The packaging is biodegradable, recycled and recyclable – right down to the paper tape used on post boxes – and you can even home compost the plastic-free film. 

Their creamy, dreamy vegan chocolate recipe is delicious and keeps the highest standard of ethics they demand. Super simple, only using Single Origin Peruvian Cacao, Madagascan bourbon vanilla, creamed coconut and coconut sugar. It’s 100% organic and all cacao is fairly traded and grown on small, family-owned Peruvian farms, guaranteed slave, child and animal labour-free. 

Top of our list, however, is the fun stuff! Our ToyChoc Boxes® each contain a 3D puzzle toy – you might get a dinosaur, a rabbit, a woodland creature or an endangered animal – and a fun facts card about your creation. After you’ve popped your toy, you’ll have a cute stencil; perfect for making your wild creature pictures.