Doors to Gwilym’s New Coffee Shop Not Tamper Proof

The one detail that caught my eye as I entered Prufrock, the first coffee shop operated by 2009 World Barista Champion Gwilym Davies that does not rest on wheels, was the tamper doorknobs. A tamper is the hand tool baristas use to pack ground coffee into an espresso machine’s filter basket. [Read more...]

Department of Coffee & Social Affairs Now Serving London

apparition on Leather LaneYesterday I was trudging through the snow drifts along London’s Leather Lane on the quietest of Saturdays in this December of discontent when I came across this wondrous sign above the entrance of numbers 14-16: Department of Coffee and Social Affairs. [Read more...]

Halogens at Tokyo coffee bar

siphon halogen bar