Are you a tea or a coffee person?Ultimately you are one or the other. Personally I like tea, but I love coffee. Since the coffee revolution kicked off, we have had some dreadful baristas in Starbucks, Nero and Costa. However there is a new revolution, artisan coffee! Proper coffee is out there! Nearly every part of London boasts a local able to serve up a proper coffee. Here I will focus on the old and the new revolutionaries.
In London bridge and Covent Garden Monmouth reigns supreme. The founding fathers of quality whole sale and filter coffee, have certain beliefs. There is only one size, only whole cane sugar and only whole milk. No grande, sweetener, soya coffees here! These beliefs truly make an extraordinary brew though! The flavour is always there, not burnt or bitter or weak. With queues pretty much throughout the day these guys certainly know what they are doing! Don't be fooled though just because your local cafe uses Monmouth beans doesn't mean they can make coffee like Monmouth!
Secondly I would like to champion the very misunderstood new coffee shop chain Harris and Hoole. Named after two coffee drinkers in Samuel Pepy's diary H+H was set up by the Tolley siblings Nick, Andrew and Laura. They also own another set of coffee shops called Taylor St, which can be found in Mayfair, Bank, Shoreditch, Liverpool St and Canary Wharf. Mad about good coffee and believing everyone deserves a better coffee they approached Tesco to fund H+H. Now this is very important Tesco are acting like a bank and so own a 40% share but they do not run the company like some people have printed. H+H are expanding fast currently they are in London bridge, Barnet and Amersham however they will be opening in canon street in the summer and more besides. They believe there is 11 steps to make an espresso! So far I haven't had a bad coffee from Harris and Hoole and service is fab too, hopefully they will knock Starbucks off the high street!
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