South West coffee roasters Skip the queue, buy the beans

Start in Busselton, at Origins Market on West Street, a permanent indoor market. Obison has a stall inside, pouring coffee for whoever's doing the rounds. Check which days the market is open.

Obison isn't a surname. It joins the names of the family's two sons, and it's a local family business.

The blends don't take themselves too seriously: Wakey Wakey!, Rocket Surgery and Coffee To A Kn!fe Fight. Wakey Wakey! is a smooth medium roast of Brazilian and Colombian beans. Rocket Surgery is the all-rounder, for milk or black. Coffee To A Kn!fe Fight, the medium-dark roast, has the most body of the three, as the name suggests. Have a cup at the stall, and if it's the one, the beans are on Obison's website.

Margaret River Roasting Co is a Vasse business, and the roasting happens here, in a unit on Burler Drive. The cafe sits inside the working roastery, so you can drink one batch while you watch the next one roast.

The house blends are Midnight, The Daily, Genesis and Old Faithful. Midnight is the dark one, with cocoa and a flick of citrus. Genesis is lighter and sweeter, with hazelnut and stone fruit. The Daily is full-bodied and made for every morning, and Old Faithful is smooth, steady and exactly what it says.

The roastery says it runs on solar power, and its packaging is biodegradable and compostable. Its most particular coffee is Yira Yarkiny: beans grown in North Queensland, roasted in Vasse, and developed with Indigenous artists and traditional landowners. Every purchase supports the Children's Ground Foundation. Check hours before you go.

Round the bay, Dunsborough has roasters of its own too, including Yallingup Coffee Roasting Co and The Cape Effect. Then the road heads south to Metricup.

On Tom Cullity Drive, Providore is the shopfront for a property that also trades as the Margaret River Coffee Company. Its coffee is the Injidup Blend, sold as whole beans, which the maker describes as rich, nutty and smooth. There's a shop and tasting centre with complimentary olive oil tastings. The shelves also carry the property's own drinking chocolate. Check hours before you go.

Finish in Margaret River, at Yahava KoffeeWorks on Andrews Way. Yahava began in 2001 in a shed on Metricup Road. By the company's telling, founder Alex Kok dreamed of riding a motorbike through the world's coffee-growing regions to find the best beans, and roasted them himself in that shed. This is its South West KoffeeWorks, and it also runs Kwik Koffee drive-throughs in Busselton and on Burler Drive in Vasse, the same street as Margaret River Roasting Co.

Its three signature coffees are Kahava, Espresso and BlackGold. Kahava is a single origin from Southern India, with a tiger on the label. BlackGold's Bird of Paradise points to its Papua New Guinea beans, and if it's the one you remember from a trip down south, that's the name to look for.

For the after-dinner cup there's Rainfall, a single-origin decaf from Colombia. It won gold in the decaf category at the Golden Bean Australasia awards in 2026. The grind list runs from plunger and stovetop to espresso, and to a grind for refillable Nespresso-style pods, so order it the way you brew. Check hours before you go.