Any other old Higgins customers?

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Any other old Higgins customers?

Postby sicinius » Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:32 am

I have a soft spot for Higgins of Duke Street.

Long before all these newcomers, back in the 60's and 70's, Mr and Mrs Higgins were selling brilliant coffees, hand grinders and the virtues of press pots and vacuum pots. Their Tanzanian Double A Chagga got me through my exams. They moved rather suddenly from South Molton St in the 80's and afterwards, you could see the odd frustrated ex-customer, sniffing the air in the street, wondering what had happened.

These days they look a bit expensive compared to upstarts like Steve and SMC and they've sort of missed the whole home espresso machine scene, http://www.hrhiggins.co.uk/ but Mrs Higgins is still there and knows the business like few others and if you go downstairs, will make you an excellent cup of coffee while the wife is in Selfridges.
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RE: Any other old Higgins customers?

Postby CakeBoy » Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:57 pm

It sounds lovely. Like one of those steps back in time to wonderful memories. It's nice that there are still some places like that with lots of history about.
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