I have spent enough mornings nursing a coffee and enough evenings chasing the last spritz to know when a new opening feels like proper momentum rather than another hopeful punt. Coppa Club is about to fling open the doors of its largest London venue on 23 July at 2 More London Place, right beside Tower Bridge, and the place already smells like smart business rather than virtue-signalling concept.
Spread across two floors with a wraparound riverside terrace, the new spot offers the full all-day bar, restaurant and workspace rigmarole that has become the brand's signature. You get panoramic views of the River Thames, Tower Bridge itself and the City skyline beyond. Positioned between the bridge and The Shard, it sits within easy reach of Borough Market, Southwark Cathedral and London Bridge station. In other words, footfall is not going to be a problem.
Down on the ground floor you will find a marble-topped bar, dark tiled columns, plenty of lounge seating, proper dining tables and flexible workspaces that actually look usable. Up on the mezzanine the views open out further, the space tightens into something suitable for private events or a quieter, more intimate meal. It is practical without feeling corporate, which is rarer than it should be.
The menu runs from breakfast served between 9am and 11.30am into all-day options from then on: lunch bowls, Sunday roasts, afternoon tea from 2pm until 5pm, decent puddings, a rotating season of spritzes, and a children's menu that suggests they actually want families through the door. Italian-inspired, unfussy, the sort of food that works whether you are closing a deal, minding the kids or pretending to answer emails.
This will be one of the flagship venues in the Coppa Club estate. We’re incredibly excited to bring Coppa Club to London Bridge and to continue investing in London as we grow the brand.
Those are the words of Mark Loughborough, CEO of Coppa Collective, and they carry the quiet satisfaction of a man who has done his homework. The Tower Bridge site on the opposite bank has been one of the brand's strongest performers, so planting a bigger sibling just across the water makes commercial sense. This new London Bridge opening becomes the fourth in the capital, joining the existing spots at Tower Bridge, Putney and Marylebone.
What strikes me, watching these places multiply, is how naturally it all flows from customer demand rather than some grand central plan. People want somewhere comfortable that serves decent food from breakfast through to last orders, with views that lift the spirits and workspaces that do not feel like a punishment. Entrepreneurs like those behind Coppa Club spot the gap, invest their own money, create jobs and enrich the city in the process. No minister signs it off. No taxpayer props it up. Just private initiative responding to appetite, both literal and economic.
