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...
Flat White
2009 World Barista Champion Gwilym Davies is Done With Lattes & Flat Whites
Gwilym Davies has sworn off lattes and flat whites. The 2009 World Barista Champion has also removed cappuccinos and cortados from the menu of his Prufrock Coffee trolley at London's Present. Gibraltar, SG-120 and all the other groovy terms for an espresso with hot...
Goodbye to Penny University, Hello to Tim Styles
One shortcut to following the global coffee scene is to track the movements of Tim Styles, such is the Australian barista's knack for turning up at seminal shops at the right time. He's worked stints at Ray Cafe in Melbourne, Joe the Art of Coffee in New York, Flat...
London’s great coffee moment has come
"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...
Top 10 Coffee Shops in London
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...
Mystery of Algerian coffee solved
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...