Can anyone tell me where to get a cortado in London. Preferably a really decent one? I’m Australian, which means I’ve been astonished by how terrible the coffee is in London.

Cheers

Claude

The North American market is predominantly focused around brewed coffee, so is in a better position to support this type of outlet – it remains to be seen whether this will be the same in the UK. I, for one, hope it’s a trend that continues.

1. The filter is at the top of the FP vs bottom of AP
2. This means it makes it harder to clean

The rest of the explanation gives some rather non-specific and rather tenuous differences – FP needs ‘coarse coffee’ therefore you can’t get as much flavour (surface area etc), or that you get ‘bits’ through a FP filter vs the ‘micro filter’ on an Aeropress.

I’m not convinced just by the Logic of it – seems a but like emporer’s new clothes here.

Water is still pushed through coffee via a filter into a cup.

The fact it is a ‘microfilter’ (whatever that actually means – as you can get fine filters in FP depending on which you buy), it is pushed down (the fact that the ‘gizmo’ uses air instead of err…the filter of a FP to push the water through) – really am I missing something or is this marketing guff?

I love a good cortado and during a trip to Northern Spain last summer was introduced to the Cafe Cortado Con Hielo which is an Espresso cut with a small amount of warm milk and sugar and served to you with a glass of ice. Once the sugar has dissolved you pour it the over ice cubes mmmmm.

Would make a good moo card. What is a cortado?

Max – I highly commend two internet sources for coffee in the UK: Has Bean Coffee and Square Mile Coffee.