Our Story

Company Information

Cafelat UK is the official and authorised web shop in the United Kingdom for Cafelat products. We are not the same company as Cafelat, but we purchase directly from them and stock most of their range.

Cafelat UK is owned and operated by Cafelat UK Limited, a company incorporated in the UK.

Paul Pratt is the director of Cafelat Limited and Cafelat UK Limited. However, he is not currently involved in the day-to-day operations of Cafelat UK Limited. If you have any questions regarding your Cafelat UK order, please contact us directly.

About Us

Cafelat Limited was founded in 2008 by Paul Pratt from the UK. The brand offers a revolutionary range of products, designed exclusively for today’s specialty coffee market. Every product has been developed from the ground up with no compromises, featuring exquisite design and meticulous attention to detail. This ensuring they function as fabulously as they look.

Cafelat Limited is much more than just a set of high-end accessories for the niche coffee market. Our products combine worldwide appeal with uncompromising quality and offering the finest coffee accessories available.

Key Features:

• Innovative Professional Design: Fresh, creative products developed by experts
• Comprehensive & Expanding Range: New items added to our collection each year
• Superior Materials & Craftsmanship: Premium materials paired with advanced production techniques and rigorous quality control
• Retail-Ready Presentation: Premium packaging complete with EAN-13 barcodes

Cafelat History

Paul Pratt, the founder of Cafelat, has worked in the coffee industry since 1995 as a barista, coffee shop owner, roaster, equipment wholesaler, and accessories maker.

Paul is best known for his expertise with espresso machines, particularly in maintenance and technician training for La Marzocco. His personal collection includes about 30 espresso machines, ranging from 1950s models to modern-day units, most of them La Marzocco.

With his extensive hands-on experience restoring vintage machines, Paul truly understands espresso equipment inside and out. This expertise informed Cafelat's first products in 2005: the Bumper Knockbox and Tamper.

He knows a thing or two about machines having a sizeable collection of vintage machines he has restored himself. Our first products from 2005 – the bumper knockbox and tamper.

Today, Paul personally assembles and tests every Cafelat Robot - Manual Espresso Maker, ensuring the same meticulous quality that has defined his career.

Paul says "Towards the end of summer 2007 the bumper barista tools were doing very well, so much so that the revenue from this side project had become a major source of income for the company. I really wanted to take it to the next level and was looking at overhauling the packaging, but by the end of 2007 it became clear that merely changing the packaging was not enough. In early 2008 I had the good fortune to meet with some like-minded people who shared my vision of creating a range of coffee related products with both professional and household appeal that were the best they could possibly be in terms of function and design. Within just a few short weeks we had the concept of Cafelat done.

It has taken well over a year of extremely hard work to get where we are today. That year was spent on developing new products with our designer, pushing new manufacturing techniques and of course months of testing. What I have tried to do is pull together the most respected professionals from around the world, each experts in their field be it packaging design or product design with no compromises to function. I am extremely proud of what we have put together and look forward to developing future products."