We are back at it again with coffee! Here is our most recent roundup.
On a random Tuesday afternoon in Chapel St, we tried to get coffee after 3 pm and of course that meant that 90% of the coffee shops were shut. How dare anyone ever drink coffee after 3 pm! But we did discover Tudee’s right at the end of the market
On the corner of the market and Penton St, we found this place, with its funky exterior and cool Decor. The owner/staff were really nice and friendly and quick in making the usual – 2 Oat Mochas –
We took our stylish cups and walked and sipped to discover a decent cup of Coffee! This is typical, we find a good coffee in a place we don’t go very often. Well, it’s one to remember and will go in the appropriate category on the Coffee Map!
On the day we visited the LeSserafim Pop-up, we sought out coffee, but, once again, it was a Saturday, after 3 pm and of course most places were shut. We did threaten to go into Hippo Coffee on the junction of East Rd and City Rd, but then saw what they considered a ‘Large,’ and we quickly retreated! So instead we crossed Old St and found Early Bees.
Although the range was decent and their specials were better than the normal. Bob tried the Orange Latte and Ash stuck to the Mocha (for consistency).
It looks cool, bright, colourful, it has its own merch and a board to write messages on for other customers to read.
We waited a fairly long time for the barista to make the drinks.
We took our drinks, left and sipped and… Well, the Latte wasn’t great and the Mocha was cold (not even warm), had no chocolate and was sooooooouuurrrr!
Really, we should have waited and wrote on the whiteboard;
“Run, leave, get out of here while you still have a chance; it’s really not worth the wait!”
Every so often we find ourselves stuck in Archway for an afternoon and last Saturday was one of those. We needed coffee and had seen Archie’s on ‘The Endz Dept of Research’ TikTok a while back and given the poor level of coffee in the area, we figured we were best trying it, in the hope it was a secret worth discovering!
Short answer is, it wasn’t. We walked in and were instantly accosted with ‘Have you reserved a table? How many of you?’ We explained we just wanted coffees to go and were then treated like the scum we are! The order of 2 Oat Mochas was taken and we were charged a staggering £11.50 and given the privilege of waiting 15 minutes for them to be bothered to make them. While the pair of Tarquins at the window seat threw their food around and Mummy ignored them, as is standard for the area.
Eventually the coffee was dropped on the end of the counter and we took the cups and left
We descended the hill to the station and sipped and discovered the coffee was sour and gross – and cold, of course! How can people accept this and book a table for brunch if they can’t even make a cup of coffee and given the amount of food left on all the tables, it would seem the food is inedible too!
In the week of Halloween we were back in Angel and there, once again after 2 pm and once again searching for somewhere new, that was still open at the ungodly coffee drinking time! We had seen this café when we picked Tudee’s and seeing that it looked like a run-down laundrette, we had opted for the shop across the road. But this time we dared to try this instead
The interior is basic at best, it was Halloween, as we said (just in case you wonder what the skulls etc. are for). There are a lot of grinders and large buckets of coffee beans stacked around the place, a few tables and a basic kitchen.
But the man serving was pleasant and took the usual order and made the drinks very quickly and we left sipping at the drinks in their spooky-themed cups!
The coffee wasn’t bad, but the chocolate was at the bottom and not well stirred. It required a finger over the hole and a vigorous swivel to mix the drink, then it was pretty good, maybe a little too sweet!
It’s probably a good place if you’re an Espresso connoisseur, given the large selection of imported coffees lying around in buckets.
This is a random little bar/café hidden at the end of a quiet road, near a famous Traditional London ‘boozer’, but we pass it while walking the dogs a lot and keep meaning to go in
Well the other day we did and very glad we did too. It is a little space for coffee but may have more room in the back for the bar. The staff were lovely, chatty and friendly and made the usual drinks. It was a little pricey (£9.60), but the drinks arrived quickly and efficiently.
We took the drinks and we carried on walking the dogs with our cups in a homemade carrier (we like the recycling!) and the verdict. Goooooood, a little sweet, but that’s always better than sour. We will add it to the returnable category in the Map and do just that next time we are walking the dogs in Shepherdess Walk
We were back in Archway again this week – we always end up going places twice in close succession! And given the lousy coffee at Archie’s, we searched out anything else.
We went there – the coffee wasn’t bad!
Thankfully, Jon’s Coffee, or whatever it was called, has closed and reopened as Dune Coffee. The interior is much the same: the same layout, the same chairs, just some quirky objects d’art make it different enough. We ordered the standard and received the drink pretty quickly from a pleasant barista, took the drinks and left.
The cups were tall and skinny, but one sip and we were pleasantly surprised – There is a decent coffee to be had in Archway – Hallelujah! We could almost hear the Angelic Choir singing overhead!
Well, there we go. So until the next time we drink coffee. (Tomorrow?!)
This has been another round-up of Climbing-moss’s endless search for a decent and large cup of coffee!
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