Sam | Sustainable Living on Instagram: "At this cafe in London, you don’t order coffee by speaking, you do it using sign language! And that’s because it’s run by Deaf and hard-of-hearing baristas. At the checkout there’s a screen that teaches you how to use British Sign Language to place your order. It’s called the Dialogue Express Cafe in Stratford, and the concept was started by Hakan 12 years ago, after he noticed how his disabled relatives were excluded from society. So Hakan created a platform to help break down barriers between hearing and deaf people, and give the deaf community a bigger sense of belonging. The cafe is run in partnership with Dialogue Hub, a social enterprise who offer training and employment opportunities to the deaf community, and encourage visitors to learn and use sign language too. There’s screens to teach you, posters to help, and they even run BSL courses there too! They’ve only just started and are looking for more visitors, so if you’re visiting East London, save this video as a reminder to go and order the most memorable coffee of your life. Tap like if you’d love to see more places like this and share to spread the world! #goodnews #coffee #signlanguage #deaf #bsl"

55K likes, 694 comments - sambentley on September 23, 2025: "At this cafe in London, you don’t order coffee by speaking, you do it using sign language! And that’s because it’s run by Deaf and hard-of-hearing baristas. At the checkout there’s a screen that teaches you how to use British Sign Language to place your order. It’s called the Dialogue Express Cafe in Stratford, and the concept was started by Hakan 12 years ago, after he noticed how his disabled relatives were excluded from society. So Hakan created a platform to help break down barriers between hearing and deaf people, and give the deaf community a bigger sense of belonging. The cafe is run in partnership with Dialogue Hub, a social enterprise who offer training and employment opportunities to the deaf community, and encourage visitors to learn and use sign language too. There’s screens to teach you, posters to help, and they even run BSL courses there too! They’ve only just started and are looking for more visitors, so if you’re visiting East London, save this video as a reminder to go and order the most memorable coffee of your life. Tap like if you’d love to see more places like this and share to spread the world! #goodnews #coffee #signlanguage #deaf #bsl".