Kerb crawling – looking for a cafe on a Saturday morning

This morning my wife and I fancied breakfast at a cafe, and in the part of London we chose to visit we struggled to find a decent cafe that was open or served a decent coffee. The area that we targetted has a number of  chains but we wanted to try an independent. We drove [...]


Europa Cafe and Vaci Utca – Budapest

Starting the day again at CoffeeHeaven we soaked up the atmosphere and the welcoming ambience at this cafe for the last time this trip before launching ourselves upon the Metro network. Our Budapest cards were due to expire at 1200 and we were in the city until 6pm, so we decided to make full use [...]


Quality Coffee – everywhere I look…

Day 10 of our New Zealand trip and another chance to visit more cafes and sample quality coffee’s. Almost every coffee I have consumed has been of a very high standard. The only ‘average’ coffee I had was yesterday, at Auckland Airport (Domestic Terminal) which was prepared in a superauto by a trainee barista. In [...]