coffee

Acme Coffee Cups: An Icon as Plain as Can Be

If there's a lesson to be learned from the Looney Tunes Road Runner animated cartoons it's this:A-C-M-E spells doom. To help catch his elusive prey Wile E. Coyote keeps putting his faith in the latest contraption manufactured by the Acme Corporation. The...

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Espresso Salvation, 443 FT from British Museum

With a gleaming white La Marzocco FB80 espresso machine for an altar and a pop-up tent for a canopy, barista Gennaro Di Mattia presides on hallowed ground. When the clouds open a path for the sun into the narrow churchyard beside St George's Bloomsbury, his humble...

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CoffeeSaturday Falls Back in Love With Cappuccino

When one great London coffee shop dared another great London coffee shop to park its espresso cart on its premises everyone's first thought was smackdown. But the docking of Flat Cap, as Notes Music Coffee mobile units are known, at Prufrock Coffee on London's Leather...

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No Coat, No Table

My wife, our baby and I were patiently waiting fourth, fifth and fifth-and-a-quarter on the line to place an order at the Columbus location of Joe the Art of Coffee, a busy coffee shop near both the real and fictional Upper West Side apartments of Jerry Seinfeld. When...

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Killing Time & Lovely Coffee at Monmouth Maltby St

One week ago I asserted that devouring a St John Bakery custard doughnut was the best thing to do on a Saturday morning in London. The food blogosphere disagreed: MiMi of Meemalee's Kitchen said she could think of something else she'd rather be doing. Katrina The...

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The Imperceptible Greatness of Prufrock Coffee

[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...

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Great Coffee in West London? Somebody Pinch Me.

[oqeygallery id=2] Jeremy Challender and Gwilym Davies do not, as a general rule, wear £200 jeans but they seem to like pulling espressos in shops that sell them. The baristas behind Prufrock Coffee have parked an espresso machine just inside the shop window...

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Krazy for Kaffe & Kaka

No one who knows Stockholm will be surprised I fell back in love with kaffe & kaka on a family visit there in October. But everyone who knows me will wonder how I fell out with the combo of coffee and cake in the first place. Coffee and cake are in my blood. My...

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Goodbye to Penny University, Hello to Tim Styles

One shortcut to following the global coffee scene is to track the movements of Tim Styles, such is the Australian barista's knack for turning up at seminal shops at the right time. He's worked stints at Ray Cafe in Melbourne, Joe the Art of Coffee in New York, Flat...

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2 Hip Haunts for 2-Wheeled Cafenatics

The London cafenatic's Tour de France is a kilometre long, with no hills or turns from start to finish. It departs from look mum no hands, a garagehouse coffee shop at 49 Old St, and arrives at Rapha Cycle Club, a pop-up gallery, boutique and coffee bar at 146-148...

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London’s great coffee moment has come

"The British capital won't be a coffee capital," I wrote in April 2009, "until the taste for excessively milky coffees recedes and the best coffee shops look beyond espresso to filter- and siphon-brewed coffees. I'd also like to see more coffee shops sourcing and...

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World’s thickest, moussiest espresso crema

The technique used by Rome's renowned Caffè Sant'Eustachio to produce an astoundingly thick, foamy head of crema atop its signature Gran Caffè is a closely guarded secret. Screens on each side of the Astoria espresso machines block the view of nosey cafenatics seeking...

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