Itโ€™s been a while since Londonโ€™s Hasbean Coffee has had a brick and mortar location of their very own; primarily a roaster/wholesaler, Hasbean havenโ€™t had a cafe space in some 14 years now. But that changed recentlyโ€”at least temporarilyโ€”with the opening of (H)AND, a manual coffee and tea brewing pop-up inside UNIQLOโ€™s flagship London store.

The Hasbean pop-up in not the first coffee shop to take over a sliver of real estate inside a storefront for Japanese lifestyle brand–last year The Barn set up shop inside UNIQLOโ€™s flagship store in Berlinโ€”but (H)AND might be the most ambitious. According to a press release, they will have โ€œ60+ unique lots of specialty coffee sourced by Hasbean available at any given timeโ€ covering โ€œa wide range of origins, varieties, and processes.โ€

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โ€œHighlight[ing] the power and beauty of collaboration (‘AND’) and manual creation (‘HAND’) through coffee and tea service,โ€ all coffees will be made with handmade brewers created by Kalita in a collaboration with local manufacturers from the Tsubame region of Japan. The appropriately named โ€œTsubame & Kalitaโ€ Collection from the โ€œ& Kalitaโ€ Initiative will also be available for purchase at the pop-up.

(H)AND will also have a variety of โ€œlimited edition small-batch teasโ€ sourced by Londonโ€™s Lalani & Co, which will all be made on the Aurora brewer, designed by Jameel Lalani and ceramicist Linda Bloomfield. Hot water for all products in the pop-up comes via the Marco Mixย UC3 multi-temperature boiler.

The Hasbean UNIQLO pop-up is anticipated to stay open for around three months, though the exact end date hasnโ€™t been set. Coffee offerings will change daily (because there are over 60 after all), but information on the current menu can be found on (H)ANDโ€™s Instagram. For more information on the pop-up, visit their website here.

Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network.

*top image via Hasbean

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