OK, the last trip included Taste of Bitter Love Present, Nude Espresso and Climpson and Sons. All were fabulous and I’ve been back to each several times. There were a couple of other Eastern places I’ve been recommending for a while on my map that I’d not tried myself so I had to make another […]
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….of coffee. The coffeecognoscenti have been trying to wean us off our milk dependency for a while. Thanks to guys like Gwilym Davies at Prufrock, Londoners are slowly being weaned off their vente milky hazelnut lattes onto shorter milk-based drinks like flat whites and stumpys …then to cortados, macchiatos, piccolos and gibraltars and finally to […]
First published April 2010 The London coffee scene has changed dramatically in the last few years. The emergence of Kiwi and Aussie run/staffed establishments has completely changed the picture – at least in Central and East London. There are pockets of coffee excellence in other parts of London now – the pinnacle being in Exchange […]
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Making great coffee is a real art and I was privileged today to witness a couple of fine baristas in action in an afternoon that was a lovely celebration of coffee and the skill and care which these people put into their art. Yes, coffee might not be the be-all-and-end-all to everyone but it’s always […]
—edit—kind of funny now, I more rarely drink cappuccino though it remains a good test, I tend towards flat whites and macchiatos and espressos on the whole—edit—(August 2010) I finally learned to spell Cappuccino. I like espresso and other espresso-based drinks (especially macchiato) but cappuccino is the one I most often seek out – and […]
Phil Wain 