This place is already on my Central London Coffee Survival Guide Map but it definitely deserves its own blog post. A hole in the wall in Great Ormond Street, The Espresso Room has a really simple proposition - it makes kick ass coffee. Given its dinky size, I propose that these guys open branches all around London - in fact they should take over all the existing chain coffee store sites and have an Espresso Room franchise instead, in a 10th of the space. Londoners would start realising what good coffee tastes like and we could use all that left over shop space to make central London's retail proposition a bit more exciting. In fact (and I'm really getting carried away now) let's turn all of Zone 1 into an extended version of Lambs Conduit Street, filled with interesting, independent shops - OK, you can keep some of the big department stores like Selfridges and John Lewis (I love John Lewis - particularly the cookware department) but other than Boots the chains have to go (*dream*). Anyway I digress - this place is great. Refuel after your lovely retail experience on Lambs Conduit Street - have a flat white for me.Thursday 26 November 2009
The Espresso Room WC1 (Bloomsbury Pt. 3)
This place is already on my Central London Coffee Survival Guide Map but it definitely deserves its own blog post. A hole in the wall in Great Ormond Street, The Espresso Room has a really simple proposition - it makes kick ass coffee. Given its dinky size, I propose that these guys open branches all around London - in fact they should take over all the existing chain coffee store sites and have an Espresso Room franchise instead, in a 10th of the space. Londoners would start realising what good coffee tastes like and we could use all that left over shop space to make central London's retail proposition a bit more exciting. In fact (and I'm really getting carried away now) let's turn all of Zone 1 into an extended version of Lambs Conduit Street, filled with interesting, independent shops - OK, you can keep some of the big department stores like Selfridges and John Lewis (I love John Lewis - particularly the cookware department) but other than Boots the chains have to go (*dream*). Anyway I digress - this place is great. Refuel after your lovely retail experience on Lambs Conduit Street - have a flat white for me.
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The Espresso Room--like the drink--delivers a lot of flavor in a small volume.
ReplyDeleteLoving your blog and especially the Coffee Survival Map, and wanted to pass along a few complementary resources for London and the US:
ReplyDeleteBen (Espresso Room) suggests that "The best places that I know of are:
* Dose Espresso
* Tina we salute you
* Taste of bitter love
* Climpson and sons
* Taylor St baristas
* Gwilym at Present
* Lantana
* Flat White
* Milk Bar
* Fernandez and Wells
* Nude Espresso
To extend the coverage of your map outside of London: when traveling in the U.S., please use these excellent resources/maps for a great cup of espresso:
* Espresso Map (www.espressomap.com)
* Pure Coffee Map (http://purecoffee.blogspot.com) that also features a great map (http://coffeeandteaindex.blogspot.com/)
Thanks to you and these other resources for so generously sharing of their experiences for the benefit of your readers.
Robert
Denver, Colorado, USA
imcellular.org
Robert - this is great, thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteHave you seen www.thecafehunter.co.uk ???
ReplyDeleteI had not - thanks for the tip, have added a link on the blog.
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