[oqeygallery id=6] One attribute that separates exacting chefs from merely attentive ones is an intolerance for the slightest imperfection. It is also a trait shared by kitchen tyrants who berate underlings for sprinkling 16 grains of coarse sea salt on the left half...
Leather Lane
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...
Department of Coffee & Social Affairs Now Serving London
Yesterday 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:Â Department of Coffee and Social Affairs. Was I...