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Give Espresso a Shot – at Coming Soon Coffee
Coming Soon Coffee, in conjunction with Londinium Espresso, held ‘Give Espresso a Shot’ at their coffee shop space inside Exhibit Gallery, 20 Goswell Road, Barbican (London) on Sat 24 March. This free all-day event was jointly put on by Hoi Chi Ng and Mattias of Coming Soon Coffee and Reiss Gunson of Londinium Espresso, to [...]
Chocolate – I have been introduced to a whole new world…
In early December I attended a tutored tea tasting at the Tea and Coffee Festival at Southbank (behind the Royal festival Hall) and afterwards got chatting to Yael Rose, who runs The Chocolate Festival at the same location. She invited me along to this weeks event, so yesterday I popped along to check it out. [...]
eightpointnine makes coffee blending accessible to the masses
This morning I am enjoying a lovely coffee roasted by eightpointnine – a new entrant to the UK coffee roasting scene. That in itself is not newsworthy, but what eightpointnine does differently is makes coffee blending accessible to the masses. A visit to their website opens up a range of taste possibilities, without having to [...]
CoffeeTools App Review
CoffeeTools App (£2.49) Produced by bTree Media & EspressoParts (Jon Stovall @coffeetools / http://coffeetoolsapp.com) Over the past couple of weeks I have been using the CoffeeTools App to record my espresso extractions with good results so far I like the easy to use interface, navigable with one hand (on the iPhone or iPad) which calculates [...]
Sensory Experiences
I’ve made it a mission this year to try everything put in front of me where taste and smell is concerned. I know what I like to eat and found I often stuck to the same dishes in restaurants, but in taking the challenge to try anything once have discovered that some of the old [...]
