Personal introduction
Origin, role and personal perspective to be confirmed.
A family story, shared in Spitalfields.
Fazenda brings together Italian coffee heritage, honest home cooking and a belief that a café should feel like part of its neighbourhood.
Meet Antonio and Annarita.
Fazenda has been welcoming Londoners since 2010. Created by Antonio Battisti and Annarita Baioni, it brings together a family coffee tradition, food prepared with care and warm, personal hospitality.
Their Italian hometowns, individual roles, reasons for opening Fazenda and a quotation in their own words will be added once the details have been confirmed directly with them.
Personal introduction
Origin, role and personal perspective to be confirmed.
Future quotation
A first-person quotation will sit here after approval.
From Italy to London
A tradition carried forward.
A coffee tradition begins
The beginning of Fazenda’s family coffee-roasting tradition.
Fazenda welcomes London
Fazenda begins welcoming customers in London.
A home at Harrow Place
The date of the move to 9 Harrow Place will be added once confirmed.
Café, gallery, community
An Italian café, gallery and community space in Spitalfields.
The roots of Fazenda
Coffee, family and memory.
The family coffee-roasting tradition began in 1981. Its confirmed location, archive captions and fuller history will be added here without guessing at details that have not yet been supplied.
Hospitality, the Italian way
Simple things, done with feeling.
Care at the table.
Fazenda values straightforward food, quality, generosity and the pleasure of sharing time around a table.
A social space.
Coffee and food create room for conversation, familiarity and everyday connection.
Knowing the place.
The café’s identity is shaped by the people who return, work nearby, create and gather in Spitalfields.
Part of Spitalfields
A café shaped by its neighbourhood.
Residents, office workers, artists, musicians and long-standing regulars all form part of Fazenda’s wider community.