The Brighton Crew
Andrew - "Coffee- can do"
Selina - "You wan' an espresso? I'm feelin' ya.."
The Richmond Massive
Nick - "Try my creamy milk"
Laura - "My latte art is better than yours"
Vic - "I don't miss a trick!"
Shana - "oh tru bro!"
Nathan - "Giant pineapple espresso-that drink has it all."
Influences
Good coffee is hard to find so when you get one it sticks in your memory like bluetac
Starting in Sydney-
Toby's Estate coffee
The Matchbox cafe back in 2002-3 for impeccable latte art
the little espresso bar on George st on my way to uni
the other little espresso bar on my way to uni with muffins like bricks
Online and in-print
union coffee roasters- This is where I get my coffee from- it is exceptional, coffee, all the time... they source it ethically and they only take the best.www.unionroasters.com
David Schomer- for introducing the science into espresso craftmanship
www.espressovivace.com
James Hoffman- an informative blog and one that can show you how much there is to the world of coffee.
www.jimseven.com
Cafes in London/Brighton
Flat White.
it's a little bit sad to only have one cafe worthy of a mention. I'm always keen to hear of others doing consistently exceptional coffee
I'm keen to try Burgil Coffee, which has a cafe in Hackney but have yet to make it...I've heard Sacred do some nice coffee too...
We started up in March of 2006 in Western London, as a reaction to all the bad coffee out there.
As baristas we are the end of the line for a seed that has been carefully grown, harvested, processed, transported, and roasted. Thousands of people from around the world have worked to get the coffee to us in the best condition possible and so we are responsible for making sure you get the most from it.
We use the best coffee available which is always ethically sourced and our aim is to make it so good that you can't drink coffee from anyone else... ;)
We can be found inside Travelbag at 130 Queens Road Brighton, half way between the train station & the beach, near the clock tower.
Or in Richmond... Inside Source, next to Costa coffee, about 40 metres to the left of the train station.
Have a look at our videeo to see what we do...and check out www.taylor-st.com
It really does confuse me how in this age of information how people still fail to even attempt to get something right. In the mean Streets of Hereford there are two Coffee carts, 100 yards from each other and both in sight of Starbucks. Starbucks had its share of over-made up pink skirt wearing skinny-soy-decaf-mocha-choca-latte (not too hot) drinkers, but only a few. The first cart advertised equally cringeworthy beverages, so we decided to give their bean-to-cup expertise a try. We ordered a double macchiato each, the idea being that if the coffee was disgusting there would not be half a litre of the shit to force down, and a dash of milk would dull slightly the taste bud ruining flavours of over extracted 'espresso'. We sat down and looked into the 'fair trade paper takeaway' cup to see something that resembled the remainder of someones skinny cap' bought at least an hour ago. It tasted about the same, although at least the skinny cap' may have once been passable. My (selina) cup started leaking and that was the last straw, I walked up to the girl at the counter and with my nicest smile informed her that the coffee was undrinkable and really tasted nothing like espresso. The girl turned to her colleague and said "the lady doesn't like her coffee, I only made it how I was shown" The colleague informed me confidently that - "an exspresso doesn't actually have any milk in it..." You can probably guess the rest, we retrieved our wasted pennies and swanned over to coffee cart number two. Whereas cart 1 sacrifices quality for service, it seems cart two prefered to at least try to make good coffee at the expense of good service. If you are going to ask me a question, at least have the courtesy to listen to the answer before scooping half a pound of burned milk froth (not foam) onto a relatively passable double espresso.
Hey ho and away we go. So after a while bumming around in France we decided to head east to Ceret, a cool little mountain town on the French/Spanish border. Stayed for 6 days, two of which were sunny (the rest being torrential), great little place full of hippies and rich people (that's some fruity tobacco you've got there mister..)! Then on down to San Pere Pescador, which was on first sighting a complete hole, but as we neared the sea it became clear that this was definitely a place to catch some rays. (still no good coffee..) Headed south to a dirty little place north of Barcelona full of gypsies and wierdos for one night then on to Barcelona!! Stayed in Sitges, a lovely little microclimate south of Barcelona. Woke up with no money and flew back to England. Still no good coffee.. On arriving in England, spent 5 days mashing it up in Brighton before retreating to Tenbury Wells, a tiny little town in the middle of nowhere - still no good coff.. wait - what's this I spy in the tiny family run supermarket... Union coffee?? Oh rapture oh joy! After all that time noodling around in France and spain, all we needed to do was come to Tenbury!! ....aaaah smooth Mexican tasty times. After a few days in Tenbury it was time to get to Hereford to find work before going to Thailand. Yeah right! No jobs, no houses, no f***ing good coffee!! Which brings me to my point....
We're in France, You are not, We'd be smug if it was hot, With a short black, mocha, cappuccino too, No espresso's really poo!! (sing to nic-nac paddywack)
I need a double espresso! from Selina :( :(
Post us nice coffee and we'll cuddle everyone we meet called Andrew for the rest of the year....xxx
AhMr Tolley! How is your time off? Im glad you agree, on whatever your agreeing on!! So I didnt make any money last night - well we made £4 so £2 each - alas i shall pay my tab in full when i get back from Ireland this weekend!
holy smokes your not going to believe this...i click'd this offer to get a REAL designer bag through Coach 100% FREE and it totally came!! since i KNOW its no joke now, i'm going to act real fast and snag more to wrap up as a gift..you really ought to go snag a few as well LMFAO! isn't the one i received hot?
Hello onge, i'm taking this opportunity to do some shameless advertising - >
Also sorry i havn't paid my tab yet, my grandad actually died yesterday so I am with my family in Essex distracting myself on the internet.. I'll be back in sometime this week xx
Well hello there - always glad to share a word with a coffee lover... Syd coffee is rockin... Personally I'm going through a Campos Coffee faze And Toby's estate aint bad either... Wish I was in the UK so I could pop in for a flat white... next time..
hey andrew! not sure if i can get down to brighton for a tasting... maybe wednesday evening? might be a squeeze though. i'm looking forward to this saturday! i got the whole weekend off so any start time is fine :)
Why this is a rather excellent MySpace page i see here! Dyu think you could send me a jpg/jpeg of the flyer for the gig and your menu so i can put them up on the main page..
