Coffee Addicts Unite!

I myself am not a coffee drinker but those of you who are I thought you might like this article I found on Yahoo. I love the smell of it brewing just dont like the taste of it though.

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/5-health-reasons-to-not-quit-coffee-2460820/

We are down in London tomorrow for 3 days so I'll look out for Monmouth inbetween checking out the real ale pubs I've listed! 

Did you manage to get to Monmouth? Did it blow your mind? 

If you're doing the real ale thing, try the Harp near trafalgar square. It's my local Friday lunchtime haunt and just won CAMRA pub of the year.

so we got a Tassimo about three weeks ago and I'm totally obsessed. Because there's only two of us in our house and we get up at vastly different times, we always had the bother/mess vs making shed loads of coffee issue.

Now I get to make coffee in two minutes with one click, and it's pretty good! You need to let it sit for a minute so the flavours gel and so far, so good. We ordered lots of stuff from the tassimo site and now have enough to last months!

I still stand by my smartcafe... not limited to what kind of coffee like you are with tassimo,pod systems etc.. and its one cup at a time of fresh coffee easy peasy!!!! I LOVE IT..
If you've never heard of a smart cafe or want to see what im talking about ... have a look here..

http://www.cookware-online.co.uk/shop/coffee-makers-espresso-cappuccino-machines/cafetieres/smart-cafe-hot-cafetiere-mug-373143.html

I still stand by my smartcafe... not limited to what kind of coffee like you are with tassimo,pod systems etc.. and its one cup at a time of fresh coffee easy peasy!!!! I LOVE IT..
If you've never heard of a smart cafe or want to see what im talking about ... have a look here..

http://www.cookware-online.co.uk/shop/coffee-makers-espresso-cappuccino-machines/cafetieres/smart-cafe-hot-cafetiere-mug-373143.html

yeah we had one of those, not wild about it at all, also you can't decant into a travel mug to take on the tube and I hate the coffe grounds sitting it, just stewing. I also found it to make quite grainy coffee.

I had a cup of coffee at http://smallbatchcoffee.co.uk/roastery.html in Hove this morning and it was one of the best cups I've had in the UK.  I want another one now!!!

Yet another reason to love your coffee, especially if you're a guy:
www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/17/coffee.prostate.cancer/index.html

I don't like drip coffee or instant, I'm an ex-barista and having a bit of meltdown with the lack of decent espresso places (or very possibly my inability to find them!!).

Anyway for you espresso fans, if it hasn't been mentioned, and this is a bit random, but the cafe in the Natural History Museum does a really nice dark chocolate mocha!