Food adventures, food memories and food thoughts.
I had somebody else make me a cup of coffee for the first time in three months last weekend. My fist interaction with a barista in a very long time. It might not have been the full sit down coffeeshop experience I’ve long pined for but it was the first step back in in the …
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It was one hundred days ago yesterday that the UK went into lockdown, which must make it somewhere in the region of one hundred and five days since I was last in a restaurant or coffeeshop. I’d gone to Cambridge for the day to see my dad and we managed to fit in coffee at …
It feels very much as if summer has come early. The sun is shining, the sky is blue and I’ve got a blind pulled to keep the glare off the screen as I type. It’s left me struggling to make up my mind if the advent of such good weather is a help or a …
I’ll never take a coffeeshop visit for granted again. I used that sentence as a one liner on Twitter last week and the responses showed me I’m clearly not the only one going through withdrawal symptoms, as we all sit at home wandering how long social isolation will have to go on for. If you …
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Sat in a coffeeshop yesterday morning with a notebook and pen I was feeling quaintly old fashioned as I started to write this. I wasn’t the only writer there but I was the only one who hadn’t had to ask for the wi-fi password. I was in the new Bread Source cafe on Bridewell Alley …
I spend a lot of time in coffeeshops. There’s something about them that I find quite addictive. I know they’re feeding my coffee habit but it’s more than just that. A good coffeeshop is a cocoon where you can sit for hours pondering and watching the world go by. It’s a meeting point, a social …
David in the kitchen.