This is what I remember. It was perhaps early 2009 (but I cannot be sure), it was at Gwilym Davies’ coffee cart at Columbia Road Flower Market and one of the baristas was making coffee, again my memory fades on who it was, but they were talking about coffee to a customer and the importance […]
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Six years is a long time in cafe life. Lots of wear and tear, heavy use. Day after day after day, after day. Every year at Christmas we used to give Great Titchfield a going over with the paint brush, bring her back to life a bit. We have updated things here and there, to
Great Titchfield Street – Time for a facelift – Plans for Renovations Read More »
Quite a long while ago, one of our former superstar lead baristas came to me with the idea of running a guest espresso on the bar. This, they said, would be perfect for our baristas/staff to try different coffees and work with them, great for our customers to be able to try these coffees from
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Congratulations are in order. The final 16 baristas have made their way to the last week of the London Latte Art Smackdown and will be competing on Tuesday night at Square Mile Roastery in front of a mad, up for it crowd with some of the complete legends of the London Coffee scene as judges
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What a great night the first heat was. 16 baristas, three world class judges, probably the best espresso machine in the world, £840 in cash to win plus prizes from Square Mile, Coffee Hit, Minor Figures and Victoria Arduino as well as the simple, stunning glory that comes with winning. The pressure was on, and
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So the London Latte Art Smackdown for 2015 enters it’s first week and we have amazing news in that the interest has been so high that we have been able to increase the entrants to 16 per heat, or 64 of London’s best (or most courageous) baristas. This of course means tat the total prize
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It started a long, long time ago. That is, thinking about opening a second store, though certainly nothing serious. Then we found out Layla was going to have a baby brother or sister so all those potential plans were put on hold as a very conscious decision that this time, it was all about the
Opening the second store – The snowball effect that runs in your mind Read More »
I feel very lucky that I have had quite a lot of experience in recruitment, mainly at Lord’s Cricket Ground where I was for four years before opening Kaffeine, managing the staffing of the Catering department. I would have to assess 1000”s of CV’s every year in the application process to ascertain if the applicant
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Even I was slightly nervous as I dropped off the children in Walthamstow to my wife and caught the train back in into town (East London) to get to Square Mile coffee roasters. Not sure why. I wasn’t competing as one of the top 12 latte art baristas in London for a share of £480 cash money,
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Four weeks is a long time in competition, and here we are at the end of it. Yes, on Tuesday the 18th we will have made it to the finals of the London Latte Art Smackdown which will see 12 London baristas competing in front of a packed house for glory and prizes. The final
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