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Independent's 50 best coffee shops

Postby dr.chris » Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:00 am

Independent 50 best in saturdays newspaper was the 50 best coffee shops

Their advisers were John Sherwood of SCAE
Alan Millerworks from independent coffee roasters Union Hand-Roasted
Tom Beeston who works for food-sustainability organisation eatengland.org
and
Damian Blackburn from independent roasters Grumpy Mule

The link is at
http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/ind ... 03388.html

Its not a bad list at all
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RE: Independent

Postby CakeBoy » Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:53 pm

Nice list, a good spot Chris. I was interested to see that Combibos in Oxford made their top 50. Has anyone tried the place?
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RE: Independent

Postby nickr » Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:53 pm

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RE: Independent

Postby CakeBoy » Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:58 pm

Good to see Gwilym's new place on the latter list. It was conspicuously missing from that in the Independent.

Did anyone else think the "avoided the extreme bitterness of much espresso" comment in the Monmouth write-up of Time Out suggests the author may not be a regular in decent coffee shops if she is used to bitter in his shots?
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Re: RE: Independent

Postby double_shot » Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:14 pm

CakeBoy wrote:Good to see Gwilym's new place on the latter list. It was conspicuously missing from that in the Independent.



Gwilym is on the Independent list @ #9

Gwilym's Carts

Not quite a coffee shop, but a place to get some truly world-class coffee nonetheless. 'Gwilym Davies, a slightly eccentric character, runs two coffee carts in east London and serves fantastic espresso coffee at incredibly reasonable prices,' explains John.

Where 7B Ezra Street, near Columbia Road Flower Market, London E2 7RH (Sundays 8am till 2pm only)

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Postby Eschatologist » Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:28 pm

G's 'new place' is Prufrock, Shoreditch High Street... not on the Indy list.
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Postby double_shot » Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:37 pm

Eschatologist wrote:G's 'new place' is Prufrock, Shoreditch High Street... not on the Indy list.


Humm I missed the 'new place' bit when I read that the first time. :oops:

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Postby dr.chris » Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:40 pm

These lists are never perfect - there are always some there on reputation rather than actual experience and stuff like doing 'opposite' twice and Gwilym only once there are always a few to miss out but its nice to see that the independent list at least used reputable experts.
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