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Britain's most expensive coffee using topica beans shipped in from Japan's 'island of eternal youth' is being sold for a whopping £265 a cup.
Coffee lovers, who have a few hundred pounds to spare, can find the pricey brew at Shot - a darkly lit coffee shop based in Mayfair and Marylebone in London.
The coffee is made from typica beans, a higher quality version of the arabica beans, and have been shipped in from the Nakayama estate based on the Okinawa Island in Japan.
Ordering a one kilogram bag of the special beans from the estate to the UK will set back ammeter baristas £1,480 - with delivery cost not included - suggesting there is a mark-up on the cup served in London.
At Shot, the high priced beverage can be made into any form of coffee that would be found in a high street coffee shop. It is available as an espresso, macchiato, flat white, americano, cappuccino or latte.
Britain's most expensive coffee is being sold for a whopping £265 a cup being made out of topica beans shipped in from Japan 's 'island of eternal youth'. Pictured: Photograph of a coffee served at Shot in Mayfair
Coffee lovers, who have a few hundred pounds to spare, can find the pricey brew at Shot a darkly lit coffee shop based in Mayfair and Marylebone in London .
According to baristas working in the influencer-haven, the coffee is reportedly ordered 'two to three times a week' and is most often ordered by 'true coffee lovers'.
Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood, a UK barista champion and founder of Colonna Coffee, told the Telegraph that 'hardly anyone grows coffee in Japan' because of the difficult climate.
He speculated that this may be the reason for the extreme cost of the beans.
Mr Colonna-Dashwood told the paper: 'Rarity is obviously
