If there's a lesson to be learned from the Looney Tunes Road Runner animated cartoons it's this:A-C-M-E spells doom. To help catch his elusive prey Wile E. Coyote keeps putting his faith in the latest contraption manufactured by the Acme Corporation. The...
News that the new Ace Hotel in London's Shoreditch would be setting up its resident coffee shop in collaboration with Square Mile Coffee Roasters brought expectations of groundbreaking brewing techniques, cutting-edge gadgetry and barista performance art. But...
Seconds after giving a long hello hug to my dear mother I raced to the Chelsea location of Blue Bottle Coffee, under the High Line at West 15th Street, to try my first zinger. Such are my priorities when back home in New York: Family first, coffee close behind. The...
When one great London coffee shop dared another great London coffee shop to park its espresso cart on its premises everyone's first thought was smackdown. But the docking of Flat Cap, as Notes Music Coffee mobile units are known, at Prufrock Coffee on London's Leather...
[oqeygallery id=20] The reasonably safe premise behind my CoffeeSaturday pop-up series was that there would be a correlation between the quality of the coffee and that of the conversation. Nothing new there: For centuries coffee shops have cultivated an open exchange...
One week ago I asserted that devouring a St John Bakery custard doughnut was the best thing to do on a Saturday morning in London. The food blogosphere disagreed: MiMi of Meemalee's Kitchen said she could think of something else she'd rather be doing. Katrina The...
[oqeygallery id=6] One attribute that separates exacting chefs from merely attentive ones is an intolerance for the slightest imperfection. It is also a trait shared by kitchen tyrants who berate underlings for sprinkling 16 grains of coarse sea salt on the left half...
[oqeygallery id=2] 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...
The one detail that caught my eye as I entered Prufrock, the first coffee shop operated by 2009 World Barista Champion Gwilym Davies that does not rest on wheels, was the tamper doorknobs. A tamper is the hand tool baristas use to pack ground coffee into an espresso...
Yesterday I was trudging through the snow drifts along London's Leather Lane on the quietest of Saturdays in this December of discontent when I came across this wondrous sign above the entrance of numbers 14-16: Department of Coffee and Social Affairs. Was I...
It was past the morning rush and my pre-caffeinated eyes coasted halfway through the coffee menu at Blue Bottle Coffee 's new Brooklyn roastery before getting stuck onto a road barrier listed only as SG-120. I shifted my gaze into reverse, spotted the familiar...
"The British capital won't be a coffee capital," I wrote in April 2009, "until the taste for excessively milky coffees recedes and the best coffee shops look beyond espresso to filter- and siphon-brewed coffees. I'd also like to see more coffee shops sourcing and...
Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Ace Hotel, 18 West 29th Street, New York
The concept of a restaurant that roasts its own coffee beans would turn few heads in the capital of New Zealand. Wellington now counts more coffee roasters than surfing instructors amongst its population of 180,000. "Actually there are no good waves in Wellington,"...
The new ER near Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children employs some unorthodox methods for treating its patients: The nutrient drip comes from a La Marzocco espresso machine, not an IV apparatus. The restorative substance, C8H10N4O2, is contained in coffee beans...
Since Londoner Gwilym Davies was crowned 2009 World Barista Champion my inbox has been clogged with the same two questions: Where can I find him pulling shots and why wasn't he included in my roundup of the top 10 coffee shops in London? Gwilym does not work at a...
Antipodean know-how and joviality invigorate the landscape for the top 10 coffee shops in London. Baristas from New Zealand and Australia transform waves of rich espresso and smoothly textured steamed milk into lattes so velvety you can barely see a bubble. Two Kiwi...
10:20 am, April 10, Nude Espresso, Hanbury St., London: A fellow cafenatic admires the proportions of his flat white (what New Zealanders and Australians call their less-milky latte). He laments that lattes back home in Eastern Europe are whipped-cream-topped...
As you can see from this enticing sign outside its Shoreditch (London) location, apostrophe, the UK café, which, according to its website, "fuses authentic boulangerie-patisserie food with a strong café culture and a modern, cosmopolitan environment," now makes its...
Could you fall for a coffee that's shorter than a latte but taller than a macchiato (an espresso "marked" with a spoonful of milk foam)? Many of us have, more of us will. In Milan, the caffè marocchino – essentially a mini-cappuccino dusted with cocoa– has risen to...
Starbucks was not seeking to buy indie cred, nor was it trying to undermine the bragging rights of small artisan coffee roasters when it acquired the manufacturer of their $11,000 dream machine. I suspect CEO Howard Schultz viewed the Clover single-cup brewer, which...
Andrew's Cafe may have been gutted, but our memories of the kitchen takeovers that transformed a greasy spoon into a silver spoon endure. For our BurgerMonday, SpagWednesday, WichThursday, FriFriday, CoffeeSaturday and DeliSunday pop-ups, we drew culinary superstars...
Once a standard at Japanese coffeehouses known as kissaten, pizza toast satisfies our collective appetite for simpler times when nothing could beat melted cheese on toast. “It isn’t real pizza,” says chef Tim Anderson of London’s Nanban “but it’s real good.
“If food is the new rock ‘n’ roll I want flavors that soar, harmonies that hum. I want foods that hook you for good.” – Daniel Young, Mr Young & Foodish Daniel Young is the London-based pop-up and pop-in pioneer behind youngandfoodish.com and the author of Where...
Le Strade della Mozzarella (#LSDM) stopped in London on Monday to spread the joy of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP and so did the master gelataio Simone Bonini. The craftsman behind the Carapina shops in Florence and Rome showcased stracciatella ("torn apart")...
"As with any recipe," writes Dino Joannides in his headnote introducing Spaghetti with Tomato and Basil, "success lies 75 percent in good-quality ingredients and 25 percent in execution." The maths may be problematic, leaving no room to credit the know-how, clarity...
[slider_pro id="52"] You don't beat Josh Ozersky, the New Yorker who wrote the book on The Hamburger, at his own game. So when Richard Turner invited Fred Smith and I to compete against Josh in a NYLon Burger-Off at the Meatopia UK Meat Festival in September we...
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