Five months. Five months it’s been since I last posted here, after religiously posting nearly every week for the past five years, all of a sudden, it went quiet for five months. Well not quiet really, just very, very, busy indeed. But here we are, Kaffeine on Eastcastle, or K2 to the K1, the little […]
It’s been a while, but we’re back….(we never left, we’ve just been busy) Read More »
Note: I wrote this back on January 12th, then got a little distracted and so have only just published it. I will wrap up the past four weeks in another, separate blog post. It is a bit hard to believe that it has only been a week and also that this week was the very
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As of today, Monday January 5th, we take possession of our second site for Kaffeine. It has been a long time coming, not just because we have been operating for five and a half years now, but also in the negotiations of the lease (6 months). It is located at 15 Eastcastle Street, W1T 3AY
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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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It appears we have made a fairly serious miscalculation. We did not get enough beer in. Two heats down and we have to go off to get some more just to be sure we can get through this coming week and Heat Three. Heat Two was another great success with coffee legends Ben Townsend from
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There is already a waiting list. Forty- eight baristas have entered and we already have a waiting list of about five people. What are we going to do next year? Think we will worry about that when we get to it. In the meantime, we had a fabulous night on Tuesday as about 35 people
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So here we are, the first week is upon us already and the amazing news is that at this time (10 pm Friday night), there are only five spaces left on the final heat night, November 11th *Updated Saturday 4 pm – One Space left* . Yes, we already have 47 of London and beyond’s baristas competing
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Last year we held the inaugural London Latte Art Challenge and it is with great excitement that we are able to say..it’s on again. We are very, very lucky because Square Mile Coffee have offered to hold the final at the roastery again, and all heats leading up to this will be held at Kaffeine.
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In case you were not aware, Tamper Tantrum is probably best described as a forum for selected coffee professionals to be able to put across a viewpoint in front of an audience, which is then allowed to go live on the internet via iTunes and the Tamper Tantrum podcast. What makes this even more amazing
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