Urban Coffee Company

What Urban Coffee Company does

Urban Coffee Company, trading as Urban Emporiums, is a single-location cafe, bar, and kitchen operating in Birmingham's historic Jewellery Quarter from The Big Peg building on Warstone Lane. Founded in 2009, the business specialises in all-day brunch and comfort food, with a menu spanning eggs, sourdough, sausages, toasts, muffins, pancakes, soups, omelettes, hash, cakes, coffee, wines, and beers. Opening hours are weekdays 8:30am-4:30pm, Saturdays 9am-5pm, and Sundays 9am-3pm, with the kitchen closing 30 minutes before the venue. The establishment is positioned as inclusive and dog-friendly, explicitly welcoming families, children, and pets, and serves local residents, families, and visitors to the district.

The business generates revenue almost entirely through on-premise dine-in service at its single Birmingham cafe, supplemented by a modest online gift voucher e-commerce channel operated through its own website. There is no disclosed technology stack, no proprietary digital platform, no mobile app, and no third-party delivery integration; marketing is conducted exclusively through organic presence on X (Twitter) and Instagram under the @urbanemporiums handle. Headcount is reported in the 11-50 range, consistent with a small independent restaurant operation. No parent company, venture capital backing, or institutional ownership signals appear in available sources, and the firm is privately held with no funding rounds disclosed.

The company's stated customer segment is general consumers and families in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter catchment, with use cases spanning all-day brunch, casual dining, social gatherings, and coffee breaks. Pricing, average ticket size, and revenue figures are not publicly disclosed. A second store is referenced on the gift voucher page as 'in the works' and 'launching soon', indicating a stated intent to expand the physical footprint, though no specific location, opening date, or capital commitment has been disclosed.

Name

Urban Coffee Company

Legal name

Urban Emporiums

Website

https://urbanemporiums.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Urban Coffee Company (Urban Emporiums) operates a single-location cafe, bar, and kitchen in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, serving all-day brunch and comfort food to local residents, families, and visitors, with a second store reportedly in development.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cafe and Restaurant Services

NAICS

Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Independent Neighborhood Cafes (THAFADAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Cafe-Bakeries (Coffee + Pastry Focus) (THAFADAG)

Keywords

• All-day brunch cafe
• Comfort food restaurant
• Coffee shop service
• Cafe bar kitchen
• Gift voucher dining

Headquarters

HQ city

Birmingham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Urban Coffee Company (operating as Urban Emporiums) runs a single-location cafe, bar and kitchen in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, serving all-day brunch and comfort food including eggs, sourdough, sausages, toasts, muffins, pancakes, soup, omelettes, hash, cakes, coffee, wines and beers. The establishment is dog-friendly and family-welcoming, operating weekdays from 8:30am to 4:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 5pm, and Sundays 9am to 3pm.

Product overview

Urban Emporiums operates as a single-location cafe/bar/kitchen offering all-day brunch service in Birmingham's Historic Jewellery Quarter. The establishment serves comfort food including eggs, sourdough, sausages, toasts, muffins, pancakes, soup, omelettes, hash, cakes, and beverages (coffee, wines, beers). The only named product offering beyond in-dining service is the Urban Emporiums Gift Voucher, which allows customers to purchase gift cards for the restaurant.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• All-Day Brunch Cafe & Bar Service
• Urban Emporiums Gift Voucher

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Starbucks: Global coffee and cafe incumbent with thousands of UK locations. Relevant as a broad incumbent in the same category but offers a fundamentally different value proposition (chain coffee vs. neighborhood comfort-food cafe).
• Dishoom: Multi-site UK restaurant group known for distinctive brand storytelling and all-day dining formats. Comparable in brand-building approach and neighborhood cafe-bar positioning, though full-service dining is the core.
• Costa Coffee: UK's largest coffee chain (now part of Coca-Cola). Comparable as a national coffee/cafe brand but with fundamentally different scale, real estate strategy, and product focus.
• Pret a Manger: Major UK sandwich and coffee chain. Overlaps with Urban's cafe/coffee/cake offering but operates a faster-paced, more transactional model in higher-footfall commuter locations.
• Caffè Nero: Established UK coffee chain with hundreds of locations. Overlaps with Urban's coffee and light-food offering but operates at much larger scale with a beverage-led model rather than a comfort-food brunch focus.

Direct peers

• Bill's Restaurant: UK casual dining chain serving all-day brunch, comfort food, and a cafe-bar offering across multiple cities. Comparable cafe-bar-kitchen format and neighborhood positioning to Urban Emporiums.
• Boston Tea Party: UK cafe chain focused on all-day breakfast and brunch with a similar independent-feel, community-oriented brand. Operates multiple UK sites including Birmingham, making it the closest direct comparable for Urban Emporiums' format, menu, and customer base.
• Gail's Bakery: UK cafe-bakery chain offering all-day brunch, specialty coffee, and cakes/pastries in neighborhood locations. Comparable product mix and premium independent positioning, though operating at significantly larger scale.
• Yorks Café: Birmingham-based independent brunch cafe operating multiple sites in the city. Directly comparable as a Birmingham-headquartered brunch competitor targeting the same customer segments in the same local market.
• The Breakfast Club: Multi-site UK breakfast and brunch cafe chain with a strong neighborhood/community brand voice. Closely comparable menu (eggs, pancakes, comfort food) and target customer profile.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/urbanemporiums
• Instagraminstagram.com/urbanemporiums
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/urban-coffee-company

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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