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James' Speciality Coffee

4.9 | 16 Reviews
Organic Coffee and Posh Booze

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About James' Speciality Coffee

We are a husband (James) and wife (Rhona) team who have been catering at events since 2006. We work from our beloved Landrover Defender. We serve organic coffee, hot choc and tea, as well as home-made traybakes, iced drinks too in the summer.

We can also double up as a mobile bar, serving Scottish produced spirits, fine wine and draught beer. We serve from our Landrover, either taking out all the coffee equipment or leaving an espresso machine in and adding booze to the menu, helpful for the cheeky espresso martini! If your event is indoors we simply take all our stock and equipment inside, we have a mobile bar specifically for that purpose.

We can provide wine pairing, glass hire, table service, cocktails, draught beer and any other form of alcohol you wish us to offer.

We love to talk food and drink, please give us a call or text, we'd love to chat to you about your event.

Our Story

We started out in the world of coffee way back in 2006. Since then we have had various coffee trucks including various VW vans and trailers, our current truck is a 2005 Landrover Defender.

We now serve fairtrade and organic coffee, all single origin. We believe you can taste the difference. Our main reason for choosing this type of coffee was fairtrade argument, having farmers in another part of the the world growing coffee beans and not being paid enough for them is not sustainable. We partner with Grumpy Mule who are part of the largest B Corp (and the first!) coffee roaster in the UK, you’ve probably seen their Cafe Direct brand in Oxfam and Health Food Shops.

Our Team

The team is all family and friends, James and Rhona who do the lions share of operating the business, our children, Ewan and Skye occasionally muck in and much to our surprise have proved themselves helpful on more than one occasion. Rhona’s sister Sandra also helps out at bigger events as does our niece Tavi.

Experience

We have catered at tiny events and huge events. From Brighton to Durness, though mainly in Scotland!

Our favourite jobs are the one where we meet the nicest people! People definitely make this job rewarding, meeting folk from all over the place who are working in industries and charities that are a different world to ours is very rewarding. Wether we are serving at the start line of an ultra marathon at 4am, or standing on trade stand representing someone else’s business, it’s always a delight to be interacting with other humans!

Typical Clients

We cater at outdoor events in the middle of nowhere, City centre events, family gatherings in the garden, corporate jobs at a trade show or office, craft catering on film/production sets.

Credentials

We have been part of many different bodies over the years, right now we see no value in membership to any of them. For us, the most valued thing is the 20 years of experience we have. I’m not sure we’ve made ALL the mistakes, but we’ve had our fair share, and after re-grouping and licking our wounds, we carry on with a lessoned learned.

Added to that we have a network of suppliers that we rely on and trust and together we have served in some of the most challenging environments Scotland has thrown at us.

Reviews

James' Speciality Coffee

4.9

16 Reviews
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Great service, professional and relaxed

Thanks James for the great bar, we felt well taken care of but you were also relaxed and friendly which helped us to relax. And the beer was great

Reviewed by: James B
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24th Apr 2026
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5 Star Review

Fantastic service

James and Rhona did a great job at our Company event - lots of great feedback about the delicious coffee (and all the other drinks) the addition of the cakes went down a treat too.

Reviewed by: Mairi M
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18th Sep 2024
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5 Star Review

Excellent service

Excellent service and exactly what was needed for our Gala Day

Reviewed by: Alison M
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19th Aug 2024
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5 Star Review

Fantastic coffee and cake!

Loved working with James - very professional, quick responses to questions and the coffee, pastries and cakes were absolutely perfect.

Reviewed by: Hazel T
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29th Jan 2024
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A nice treat for our staff, but a few issues.

I needed a company to provide a Barista coffee service and a fresh lunch for a Corporate meeting, with a tight deadline. I had good timely communication prior to the event with James, although one of my emails confirming my order request for additional items had been "missed" unfortunately. There was an issue with arrival time which meant the coffee counter wasn't set up on time as requested. I also understood there would be some signage for their company but was just a table with cloth. A fresh bagel lunch was delivered on time, and both the meeting participants and the rest of our office and warehouse staff were delighted with lunch having the coffee set up in our reception area as a treat so overall - a success!

Reviewed by: Anna G
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22nd Nov 2023
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