OLDCHEM'S COFFEE GUIDE

Advantages: I love coffee to much
Disadvantages: I love coffee too much

...or French press style coffee served straight, with no milk. Cafe au Lait: Similar to Caffe Latte, except that an au lait is made with brewed coffee instead of espresso. Cafe Breva: A cappuccino made with half and half milk, instead of whole milk. The theory is that the mix gives a richer, creamier flavour. Caffe Latte: Essentially, a single shot of espresso in steamed (not frothed) milk. Cafe Macchiato: A shot of espresso with steamed milk added. Cappuccino: Usually equal parts espresso, steamed milk, and frothed milk, often with cinnamon or flaked chocolate sprinkled on top. Double, or Double Shot: Just as it sounds, this is two shots of espresso. Dry Cappuccino: A regular cappuccino, only with a smaller amount of foam, and no steamed milk at all. Espresso Con Panna: Your basic standard espresso with a shot...

oldchem 16.10.2009 · Read review
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Cafe Nero

Advantages: Authentic Coffee, Clean, tidy premises, 1st class ambience and atmosphere
Disadvantages: Food range is not so great value.

...Caffe Nero is a leading Coffee store Retail Outlet located in many high street, town center, and Airport Lounge venues across England, wales and Scotland. The company sells, Coffee as its main product. Also they stock Tea, cold refreshments, panini sandwiches, cookies, crisps, Chocolates, cakes, and sweets. What I find that makes cafe nero different to other coffee Retail Outlet's is almost a combination of excellent Coffee, and a high standard of Customer Service. The Music in the background of the store is subtle and light. This allows people to read a newspaper, to socialise with friends, family, or to enjoy a relaxing cup of Coffee in relative peace and quiet. The atmosphere is what makes caffe nero a pleasant and welcoming place to visit. The staff seem to be team organised. I have seen Table's been cleared...

costas1234 04.01.2008 (29.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of Café Nero (London)

₪ Bucking the Star Coffee Bean ₪

Advantages: Smells great, tastes great, perfect finish. Home brew cafe style.
Disadvantages: Caffeine addiction is a terrible thing.

...great for making your own café style coffee at home. It has become a daily drink for me and I have taken to buying freshly ground beans from our local Starbucks café. Starbucks do a wide range of whole beans from South America, Africa and the Pacific, a small selection of which include: ₪ Guatemala Antigua; ₪ Ethiopian Sidamo; ₪ Organic Shade Grown Mexico; ₪ Starbucks French Roast (Latin American); ₪ Brazil Ipanema Bourbon; ₪ Sulawesi. There are also blends of coffee including : ₪ Café Estima (the subject of this review); ₪ Café Verona; ₪ Gold Coast Blend. If you visit any Starbucks café there is usually a display near the counter showing some of the beans available. They vary in colour and flavour (but in fact these displays are not real coffee beans as some poor...

susie191 23.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Starbucks Cafe Estima Whole Bean Coffee

Coffee, Anyone?

Advantages: A perpetual high on caffiene.
Disadvantages: A perpetual high on caffiene.

...After themadcabbie, I am possibly Ciao?s biggest caffeine addict. (This may come as a surprise to petersmyth1 and one or two others, who believe I am permanently inebriated.) In the long, dark winter evenings, I appear more regularly on here than I do at present (in these balmy (!) summer days). And on those dreich nights I always load up the coffee maker before I log on. It takes less time to brew than I take to establish a reliable connection. Which of course is saying very little, given my well-documented love-hate relationship with BT Surftime. Whatever. A couple of years ago, some very lovely friends of mine gave me a Philips Cafe Delice coffee maker as a birthday pressie. I?m not saying which birthday. They, like you, were well aware of my penchant for coffee, and as pressies go, they got it just right...

Aspen 13.08.2002 (05.11.2003) · Read review
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Review of Philips Café Delice HD7612 Coffee Maker

** The Chameleon Café **

Advantages: Excellent atmosphere, Comfortable seating, great low price food, friendly staff.
Disadvantages: Slow service, expensive drinks.

...** Introduction ** I am lucky enough to work in what is claimed to be one of the ?trendy? parts of London. The place they call Clapham. Whether it is actually ?trendy? is another story all together. However, luckily for me I am surrounded by bars, cafés, restaurants and of course the good old McDonalds or two! But this also means we are spoilt for choice. When we plan lunch we have to start planning from the morning. Indecisiveness is our middle name! But after a while we always break the list down to one or two favourite locations. And Perfect Blend is one of them. ** Perfect Blend ** Opening in 2008 Perfect Blend is a chameleon, it changes it atmosphere throughout the day very cleverly, from café to restaurant and then to a social bar. The second to be opened of its kind in London it really does stand out from...

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Review of Perfect Blend Café, London

Café Fun without the Expense

Advantages: Addictive game
Disadvantages: Technical issues

...Café World Café Fun without the Expense Most people these days seem to be on Facebook and after much persuading, I am one of them. Although it took me ages to visit Facebook and see what all the fuss was about, I have to admit that I am now addicted. Not only can you meet up with old friends and find out what everyone is doing these days, but you can also wile away the hours of your spare time on the many applications offered on this site. Many applications are pretty pointless, though there are a few games which are actually quite addictive, and Café World is one of these. ****************************** WELCOME TO CAFÉ WORLD ****************************** Café World is an application by Zynga which I have found produces the best application games on Facebook (one of my other favourite ones is the Zynga Poker). Like many other...

elfbwillow 21.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Cafe World (Facebook Application)

Coffee on the go

Advantages: Cheap to run, neat and tidy, great present!
Disadvantages: Could burn you - I suppose

...Have you ever had that awful feeling, when you know Christmas/a birthday is just days away and all hopes of buying a present that won't end in the loft/shef/stuffed in the back of a cupboard seem hopeless? I am pleased to say that this little machine was the answer to all my problems 2 days before Christmas 2006 and has continued to outdo itself from the moment my extatic fiance opened it on Christmas Day and at that price it really is value for money. WHAT FEATURES DOES IT HAVE? Perhaps what may have put some buyers off attracted me to this machine more; it doesn't have any fangled stirry, shaky, fizzy bits on it. It's compact and does exactly what it has to; it makes coffee, and if I do say so myself, it does it's job very well. Perhaps one of the most impressive things about this coffee maker is that it has a timer that...

sianciao 28.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Morphy Richards 47070 CAFE Matino

Ciao? Why, Italian Coffee of course!

Advantages: Somewhere to relax, sit back and enjoy the company!
Disadvantages: Can be a little crowded, especially with all the random conversation...

...I've been spending a lot of time in my local Costa Coffee. It's situated on the first floor of Waterstones in Liverpool and is one of the nicest places I've ever gone for coffee. It is probably how I would imagine the Ciao Café to be. The list of types of coffee is almost as large as the price tags! But if the coffee was free and you could have anything you wanted, what would you have? I'm going to attempt, through a creative amalgamation of book shop, Italian coffee aromas, comfy chairs and conversation, to explore what the real Ciao Café might be like. Lets start with the window outside, a bit strange for a café, all the books, DVDs, Computers, even a lawn mower and a garden hose. The shop seems to have an inner glow, a deep warmth compared to the gloomy grey outside. There's so much to grab your attention, postcards of hotels...

e_coleuk 04.12.2005 · Read review
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Conscience Coffee

Advantages: Fairtrade, ethical business, reasonable product
Disadvantages: Bit bland, not full bodied as rivals or real ground coffee

...I really love the taste and smell of fresh ground coffee, especially from Colombia or Costa Rica. There is a richness and distinctive aroma as you open the pack which just sets the taste buds tingling???..Alas, all too often it is simply not practical or best use of time to indulge in real brewed coffee so instant must suffice. Unfortunately in this sector of the beverage market price is often indicative of quality, and premium brand instant coffees almost always taste better than the standard or economy offerings. Having experienced enjoyable cups of Percol Fresh Ground Colombian Coffee I had high expectations from the instant variety: even more so since it was on offer at just over £2 for a 100g jar making it very competitive against other premium brands. The packaging with it?s familiar green green hue and prominent Fairtrade...

suehome 22.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Percol Fairtrade Instant Colombian Coffee

A local cafe for local people!

Advantages: see review
Disadvantages: -

...with the large black boards but I do find that it makes you feel laid back and at ease. The bar area always has a large vase of fresh flowers nicely arranged too. I like the fact that the cafe isn't just somewhere to eat but somewhere to unwind too. There are newspapers available to read whilst you have your coffee which are folded up on a little rack at the end of the cafe. I like this little touch. Menu Well this menu isn't vast in terms of huge meals or anything but there are plenty of small meals to have. There is a whole blackboard devoted to panninis which are all a set price £4.95. The panini fillings are vast, I am fed up of going to cafes which only offer tuna, cheese or ham as fillings. INstead here you can get allsorts including: *perri perri chicken * Tuna melt * lemon and pepper chicken * Chicken mayonaise * Fallafel...

mrbing10 24.11.2009 · Read review
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