A real London Routemaster, at your event.
RML2291 spent decades on the streets of central London. Now she is a café and lounge for private hire, bringing speciality coffee and good food to weddings, launches, festivals and celebrations.
- RML2291A genuine 1960s Routemaster
- Hire onlyBooked for your event
- Two decksLounge up, counter down
- Your brandingBanners made to fit
- UK-wideAnd further by arrangement
More than a café.
RML2291 is one of the longer RML Routemasters, built in the mid-1960s with room for 72 passengers. She worked London routes including the 7, 23, 24 and 28, through Pimlico, along Oxford Street and out to Paddington and Ladbroke Grove.
We have fitted her with serving hatches, a coffee counter and an upper-deck lounge, and kept the things that make a Routemaster a Routemaster: the open rear platform, the destination blinds and the red paint.
Her full storyThis is the bus that turns up.
No render and no stock photo. Here is RML2291 as she is today, from the skyline along her side to the plate on the back.
- SideThe London skyline in black along the lower deck, with our name above.
- HatchServing windows that open straight onto your guests.
- FrontThe 4 Hire blind and our Premium Coffee crest.
- Rear"All Aboard", the open platform and the original CUV 291C plate.
Weddings, launches, festivals and more.
Each hire is planned around the event, from a few hours of coffee to exclusive use of both decks. See how the bus works at each kind of occasion.
All occasions
Put your name on the side.
We print banners to fit the side panels with your logo, artwork or message. For a product launch or roadshow, the bus becomes your showroom for the day. For a wedding, it can carry the couple's names and the date.
Come for the bus. Stay for the coffee.
Our house blend brings together Brazilian and Guatemalan beans, roasted a touch darker for a rich, smooth espresso with a chocolate note that comes through in milk. Every cup is made to order by our baristas.
From the kitchen: fries with our homemade sauces, warm Belgian waffles with ice cream, milkshakes and smoothies.
Upstairs, a lounge. Downstairs, the counter.
The upper deck has red bench seating for guests to sit down and stay a while. The lower deck is a working coffee bar and kitchen, serving through hatches along the side.
More photosThe story of RML2291.
Before she served coffee, she carried Londoners. A few photographs from her working life.
Read her story
Longer hires, private estates and projects abroad.
Some bookings need more than a date and a postcode. Residencies, private events and projects outside the UK are arranged directly with us, and we will tell you plainly what is possible.
Have an idea for the bus?
If you are planning something unusual, somewhere unexpected, we would like to hear about it.