View Poll Results: What caffè do you prefer
Costa
10
50.00%
Caffe Nero
3
15.00%
Starbcuks
3
15.00%
Independent chain
4
20.00%
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Your favourite place for hot drinks?
20 May 2015, 04:39 PM
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Locals here all have their own vineyards and the bloke I bought it off has the best I've tasted in a while, sat here drinking a spritzer as I type this. 
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20 May 2015, 07:04 PM
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If you like decent cheap wine you're gona hate me, I just bought 50 litres of white and 50 litres of red for the princely sum of £100. Locals here all have their own vineyards and the bloke I bought it off has the best I've tasted in a while, sat here drinking a spritzer as I type this.
Locals here all have their own vineyards and the bloke I bought it off has the best I've tasted in a while, sat here drinking a spritzer as I type this. A few unknown regions in Spain produce some cracking wines but because they aren't trendy, they're dead cheap.
The Ribero region in Galicia was particularly good - a superb white rivalling the much better known Albarino which sells for £15++ a bottle in shops here.
20 May 2015, 10:51 PM
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Not tried coffee in Starbucks for a long time as barely tasted of coffee and served in a chipped tea mug. Does amaze me that so many people walking around in the UK with an XL takeaway cup that is mostly milk or water with very little coffee.
Coffee is huge in OZ and NZ. McDonalds have their own seperate coffee shop at the fron of their stores.
We have a nice indie locally but closes at 5 and not open on sundays which is annoying.
Coffee is huge in OZ and NZ. McDonalds have their own seperate coffee shop at the fron of their stores.
We have a nice indie locally but closes at 5 and not open on sundays which is annoying.
21 May 2015, 05:46 AM
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Not tried coffee in Starbucks for a long time as barely tasted of coffee and served in a chipped tea mug. Does amaze me that so many people walking around in the UK with an XL takeaway cup that is mostly milk or water with very little coffee.
Coffee is huge in OZ and NZ. McDonalds have their own seperate coffee shop at the fron of their stores.
We have a nice indie locally but closes at 5 and not open on sundays which is annoying.
Coffee is huge in OZ and NZ. McDonalds have their own seperate coffee shop at the fron of their stores.
We have a nice indie locally but closes at 5 and not open on sundays which is annoying.
21 May 2015, 07:45 AM
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Not tried coffee in Starbucks for a long time as barely tasted of coffee and served in a chipped tea mug. Does amaze me that so many people walking around in the UK with an XL takeaway cup that is mostly milk or water with very little coffee.
Coffee is huge in OZ and NZ. McDonalds have their own seperate coffee shop at the fron of their stores.
We have a nice indie locally but closes at 5 and not open on sundays which is annoying.
Coffee is huge in OZ and NZ. McDonalds have their own seperate coffee shop at the fron of their stores.
We have a nice indie locally but closes at 5 and not open on sundays which is annoying.
Those buckets of brown water are indeed grim; proper coffee is small and strong.
21 May 2015, 10:27 AM
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Costa for me, although the scene of Costa self-serve machine at Manchester airport arrival has put me off a bit. Not coffee's fault. The users make a right mess around it, and it doesn't get cleaned very often. Bad impression on the visitors.
21 May 2015, 11:57 AM
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Well it did put me off it a bit because of the look of the thrown away disposable cups all over, with the froth sticking to them. YUK! Anyway, I occasionally drink my coffee in Costa coffee bars regardless, and yes....
Coffee machines are not a good idea. I don't know why George Clooney promotes these machine made ones in that advert when a woman robs his coffee. 
But this machine made coffees can't be helped if you're waiting for your lift back home after being back in some hot country. You need a coffee in your hands to keep you warm. So, if the coffee machine is the only or the best option for that time, you go for it.
For tea, we have a family run organic Cibos in our neighbouring town that serves the best tea. I'm actually a tea drinker, and tbh I prefer the one I make at home myself.
I never buy from a machine....
But this machine made coffees can't be helped if you're waiting for your lift back home after being back in some hot country. You need a coffee in your hands to keep you warm. So, if the coffee machine is the only or the best option for that time, you go for it. For tea, we have a family run organic Cibos in our neighbouring town that serves the best tea. I'm actually a tea drinker, and tbh I prefer the one I make at home myself.
21 May 2015, 12:19 PM
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I first time I had seen and experienced a flat white was in Oz, way before it ever hit the menu's here, so you're probably right.
21 May 2015, 12:26 PM
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Too many just do a strong latte and get it completely wrong.
When in Europe I usually just have small black coffees - milk spoils perfect coffee IMO.
21 May 2015, 09:55 PM
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I was in Portland, Oregon a few years ago and wandered into a Starbucks and asked for a flat white - they didn't have a clue what I was on about!
Had to Google it on my phone and show them
22 May 2015, 05:50 AM
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I suspect that much like here it's due to the Italian influence, then some red neck ozzy's came up with the name "flat white" because Macchiato was too much of a tongue twister for your average ozzy
see my earlier explanation of large macchiato being a cappuccino without the froth, which they hold back with a spatula after heating the milk.P.S Also a very large number of Istrian Croats in OZ, so quite possible it got there that way.
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22 May 2015, 07:14 AM
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K, that sounds remarkably like the coffee I make in my La Pavoni every morning
Which I would describe as a strong Latté or more simply a cup of coffee
My steamer is great at making that thick Smooth aerated milk froth - poured over a double expresso
Which I would describe as a strong Latté or more simply a cup of coffee
My steamer is great at making that thick Smooth aerated milk froth - poured over a double expresso
22 May 2015, 08:07 AM
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Where the other option ?
As I don't drink coffee and would not go into the listed establishments for a cup of tea
Tea and my kitchen generally - But Betty's tea room (and a cake) if out in York / Harrogate.
As I don't drink coffee and would not go into the listed establishments for a cup of tea
Tea and my kitchen generally - But Betty's tea room (and a cake) if out in York / Harrogate.
22 May 2015, 08:31 AM
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That is exactly what a large macchiato is here in Croatia, you gota love the ozzys, next they'll be telling us they invented the wheel.
I suspect that much like here it's due to the Italian influence, then some red neck ozzy's came up with the name "flat white" because Macchiato was too much of a tongue twister for your average ozzy see my earlier explanation of large macchiato being a cappuccino without the froth, which they hold back with a spatula after heating the milk.
P.S Also a very large number of Istrian Croats in OZ, so quite possible it got there that way.
I suspect that much like here it's due to the Italian influence, then some red neck ozzy's came up with the name "flat white" because Macchiato was too much of a tongue twister for your average ozzy
see my earlier explanation of large macchiato being a cappuccino without the froth, which they hold back with a spatula after heating the milk.P.S Also a very large number of Istrian Croats in OZ, so quite possible it got there that way.
Whilst I like Starbucks flats, you don't get much of it and Costa flat white doesn't seem so good.
Lazy baristas also make it too hot.
If I want a bigger drink (say Starbucks normal size) I always have to have 3 shots of espresso in it.
22 May 2015, 09:23 AM
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What put me of star bucks apart from the fact i don't like there drinks, is that i want to one outlet and found 1 dark hair to blonde in my drink, once i took it back, the girl said thats weird non of us are blonde. I my book thats worse.
Well it did put me off it a bit because of the look of the thrown away disposable cups all over, with the froth sticking to them. YUK! Anyway, I occasionally drink my coffee in Costa coffee bars regardless, and yes....
Coffee machines are not a good idea. I don't know why George Clooney promotes these machine made ones in that advert when a woman robs his coffee. But this machine made coffees can't be helped if you're waiting for your lift back home after being back in some hot country. You need a coffee in your hands to keep you warm. So, if the coffee machine is the only or the best option for that time, you go for it.
For tea, we have a family run organic Cibos in our neighbouring town that serves the best tea. I'm actually a tea drinker, and tbh I prefer the one I make at home myself.
Coffee machines are not a good idea. I don't know why George Clooney promotes these machine made ones in that advert when a woman robs his coffee.
But this machine made coffees can't be helped if you're waiting for your lift back home after being back in some hot country. You need a coffee in your hands to keep you warm. So, if the coffee machine is the only or the best option for that time, you go for it. For tea, we have a family run organic Cibos in our neighbouring town that serves the best tea. I'm actually a tea drinker, and tbh I prefer the one I make at home myself.
22 May 2015, 11:53 AM
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which is what I always order in the UK then tell them to hold the froth back and just give me the hot milk, then they look at me all gone out.