Review: Store Street Espresso, Bloomsbury

Store Street, just off Tottenham Court Road, is one of those London streets that you wouldn’t know about unless someone took you there. Cleverly, they have made a strip of the shops unify their fronts and has its own website, giving the area, which could have been just another random side street, a real community…

Review: Tap Coffee, Warren Street

Tottenham Court Road is not somewhere you’d expect to find high quality independent coffee, despite its length and variety of outlets. However, right at the top end between Warren Street and Goodge Street is Tap Coffee. Not that you’d know that it’s called this, as it has no name choosing only to identify itself by…

Review: Shoreditch Grind, Old Street

You have cafes in deli’s, cafes in cinemas, cafes in museums. Now, apparently we have cafes in recording studios. Shoreditch Grind, which is actually on Old Street roundabout, dubs itself an espresso bar, which also serves cocktails…and a recording studio. For those days when your coffee inspires you to write an awesome power ballad. I…

Review: Caffe Vergnano 1882, Southbank

About The Southbank has undergone a revival in recent years and is now a great place to hangout, especially in the summer. However, the food and drink scene is very much aimed at tourists, with large chains like Giraffe, Strada and Wagamama dominating. So, I was surprised to see on a recent visit that Caffe…

Review: Nude Espresso, Soho

About Nude Espresso is a name that should be familiar to coffee lovers across London. Although they only have two actual cafes, they supply their Brick Lane roasted coffee to 16 cafes including one of my local favourites, The Haberdashery in Crouch End. Their Soho café, which I am reviewing today, is perfectly situated in…