I recently thrust up my volunteering hand following a request from the nice folk at Spacific for people to sniff and sip their way around London searching for the perfect Flat White. Spacific is in the process of collating results and will be posting aggregated scores on their site shortly (I’ll link to it when they do), but in my caffeine-addled state I ended up scratching a few notes about each of the cafes and thought I’d post the full deal here. Note that the cafes are listed in the order visited, and the prices quoted are for double-shot Flat Whites with regular milk.
Food & Drink
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May 07
May 07
Eat Your Greens
In the past two and a half years, the closest thing to a beastie that has passed my lips has been a surprise anchovy stuffed inside a spainish olive. After a youth spent devouring all sorts of animals in vast quanitities, my shimmy into vegetarianism came quite unexpectedly. As unexpected as that sneaky anchovy I guess, but in a different way all together – quite a pleasant one which I’m bloody pleased took place.
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Apr 07
Apr 07
Pils wars
Summer ebbs away in the southern hemisphere, and its passing is most keenly felt in the memory of the pleasant glow generated by a cool glass of beer. Frosty on the outside, brimming on the inside with bubbly bitter goodness, beer is second only to sunscreen in the most valuable summer liquid stakes.
15
Apr 07
Apr 07
Why I hate Starbucks
Nothing would make me happier than waking to the news of a total collapse of Starbucks around the globe, brought to its knees and leaving scarred retail space from which could spring a million different types of coffee-shops each doing things their own way and giving us back our stolen freedom to choose…
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Jan 07
Jan 07
New year food resolution (revolution?)
Hands up those of you northern hemisphere residents that gaily filled your champagne flutes with strawberries over the silly season (I did). Well whilst we can’t necessarily be expected to do the right thing all of the time, and certain allowances can be made for those special occasions such as xmas and new year, we should all feel the littlest bit guilty.