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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 of Woodhouse, a designer menswear boutique at 189 Westbourne Grove in Notting Hill, West London (see map).  Their other in-store espresso bar is in East London at the Shoreditch designer menswear boutique Present.
Challender, who for now is resident barista-in-the-Woodhouse, is using a seasonal blend from Square Mile Coffee Roasters for his espressos but may switch to a single origin espresso, as he and Davies have already done at Present. Only at Woodhouse is he preparing sublime lattes with Daylesford Organic whole milk poured from biodegradable bag packs. Very neat.
This isn’t a stand-alone, full-time coffee shop, but for (great) coffee-deprived West London it’s a start: The Prufrock espresso bar at Woodhouse is open Thursday, Friday & Saturday 10:30am-5pm; Sunday noon-4:30pm. By an amazing coincidence these are the exact times I told the Woodhouse store manager I would be available to work when, only this morning, I submitted my application for the position of sales assistant.
No way! Best news I’ve had all day. 🙂 One of my greatest regrets about moving to West London has been the lack of good coffee.
I like your photo of the shoes and jeans reflected in the coffee machine by the way!
Look up for something special and more permanent at Melograno Deli on Clarendon Road – opening in May
THANK YOU!
I’m taking a walk there first thing tomorrow.
JM
The subject of real good coffee, finally I find friends with the same thoughts on a cup of coffee. I have found a place on Goodge street just opened, in my opinion the best coffee in the whole of London. Its called Vida e caffe if you are in the area you have to give it a try,,, Awwesome….
Nick
The barista there was really sweet and helpful on bean and grinder recomm. Took bloody ages to make 3 lattes for the people before me, but I had time and appreciated the attention to detail. Those three lattes were then ruined by loads of sugar.
The latte art could have been better though…