Now that’s great coffee! Why you should never give it up
1) Coffee can enhance your workout A burst of caffeine before a workout can give you a slight edge during your exercise: As little as 100 milligrams of caffeine – the approximate amount in a cup of coffee – has been shown to improve athletic performance. Researchers aren’t sure why, but it may be because [...]
Buy a Dolce Gusto Genio at John Lewis and get £20 to spend in the Dolce Gusto webshop
Have you been looking for a capsule coffee machine but don’t want to fork out big money? Do you enjoy good deals? Right now you can get £20 to spend in the Dolce Gusto web shop if you pick up the new DeLonghi Dolce Gusto Genio at John Lewis. The voucher is very handy [...]
Free Word Centre Cafe, 60 Farringdon Road
The Free Word Centre Café is an extension of the centre, which is home to nine organisations working across literature, literacy and free expression. The cafe is supposed to function as a meeting place for discussions and exchanging ideas but it’s also a great place to drink coffee. Their coffee is from Italian brand Illy [...]
The truth about coffee! 9 myths exposed
1) Coffee lowers virility During Europe’s 17th Century coffee craze women agitated for prohibition, claiming coffee inhibited the virility of their husbands. Maybe they just wanted to keep them from spending hours at the coffeehouses but it is, of course, not true. 2) Coffee is bad for your heart Coffee does not increase blood pressure [...]
12 Historical Facts about Coffee
Coffee has been consumed in some form for more than 500 years and has made an impressive development from a simple food and drink for (probably) African tribesmen to the most consumed beverage in the world. Not bad for a virtually nutrition less, mildly stimulating drink made from small beans. Let’s have a look at [...]
Brill, 27 Exmouth Market
Brill, 27 Exmouth Market Brill is a record store, which reinvented itself as a record/coffee/bagel shop in the face of declining CD sales. One wall is still dedicated to CDs but the rest had to give way to yummy cakes, pastries, brownies and a beautiful coffee machine. Located in the midst of the Exmouth market [...]
DeLonghi Dolce Gusto Genio Review
The Dolce Gusto Genio is available from both Krups and DeLonghi, they are essentially the same machine except the DeLonghi model comes in black and Krups have a lighter grey/green colouring on their model. If you take a look at our Krups KP1509 Dolce Gusto Genio review you’ll be able to see for yourself that [...]
DeLonghi ESAM4000B Magnifica Review
This bean to cup espresso machine might not be the most stylish one on the market, but it’s reliable and sturdy. The DeLonghi ESAM4000B is not very different from its predecessor, the DeLonghi ESAM 4200. In fact, they look almost identical, but there are a few notable differences. It’s a tad more expensive, but unlike [...]
Delonghi Magnifica ESAM04.320.S Review
Delonghi is known for quality coffee machines, and though they’re not always the most beautifully designed appliances, the coffee they produce is almost unbeatable. The Delonghi Magnifica ESAM04.320.S is no different and it doesn’t look too bad either. The ESAM series is never cheap, but this machine is definitely worth its high price. If you [...]
fix, 161 Whitecross Street
Fix is another addition to the already crowded Clerkenwell/Shoreditch coffee scene and tries to appeal with an ‘industrial-chic’ interior and a distinctive, full-bodied blend. Even though the uber-stylish interior and the fact that the food and drink is organic will break your hipster detector, the actual hipster concentration is rather low. Some people quite obviously [...]
