[Gllug] [Slightly OT] Good coffee beans

brad brad at holidays-4u.co.uk
Thu Aug 14 14:15:02 UTC 2003


> My employer has just bought one of those excellent automatic espresso
> machines.  After a year and a half of execrable Dutch filter coffee, I
> now have a good reason to come into work of a morning.  This is one of
> those "whole beans and water in, espresso out" machines, does the
> whole process at the push of a button.  Most impressive.
> 
> Now the first lot of beans they bought were Sainsbury's brand ones.
> Not bad but not great.  The next lot they bought off the canteen
> upstairs and they're high caffeine, dark roast, bitter-as-all-hell
> beans.  Not that keen on this type of coffee.
> 
> So can anyone suggest a good supplier of freshly roasted, flavoursome
> coffee beans?  Ideally with a fair trade option.  If location is
> important, we're in Wembley, NW London.
> 
> -- 
> Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
> www.rumble.net
> 
> Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those
> other forms that have been tried from time to time.
> 
> - Winston Churchill
> 


There used to be a company in rathbone place W1 called Ferns they are one 
of the original coffee houses in the uk (100+ yrs) they have moved, but 
where to i don't know. If you find them their Royal Carlton blend is the 
best coffee i have ever had.



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