Getting a decent cup of coffee or tea o'the hoof is surprisingly difficult, unless you know the right address.
I was in Cambridge recently (what a beautiful city that is!) and a friend took myself and Mrs. T to Hot Numbers. We placed our order, took our seats, and five minutes later, the coffee was brought over. It was an epiphanic moment. For the same price as one of those miserable chain store coffees, here was a gustatory revelation: complexity of aroma and taste. I didn't want the cup to end.
Since then, I have been hunting out decent coffeehouses and tea rooms.
Here's an excellent address in London just off Trafalgar Square and round the corner from the National Portrait Gallery: Notes. For £2.65 (the equivalent price, or perhaps less, of the Neros and other chains dotted roundabout), you can have a deeply satisfying cup of coffee. Cakes and patisserie are excellent, too.
I was in Cambridge recently (what a beautiful city that is!) and a friend took myself and Mrs. T to Hot Numbers. We placed our order, took our seats, and five minutes later, the coffee was brought over. It was an epiphanic moment. For the same price as one of those miserable chain store coffees, here was a gustatory revelation: complexity of aroma and taste. I didn't want the cup to end.
Since then, I have been hunting out decent coffeehouses and tea rooms.
Here's an excellent address in London just off Trafalgar Square and round the corner from the National Portrait Gallery: Notes. For £2.65 (the equivalent price, or perhaps less, of the Neros and other chains dotted roundabout), you can have a deeply satisfying cup of coffee. Cakes and patisserie are excellent, too.
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