Coffeeplant
London, United Kingdom
http://www.coffee.uk.com/
User Reviews
Average coffee in a soulless cafe that perfectly matches the increasing blandness of this formerly groovy corner of West London. Really, no better than your regular highstreet chain.
While I'm here, I would also like to recommend the review by Joe_P (below) be considered for the "most pretentious cafe review of all time" award. Psuedo journo bollocks of the highest order.
Situated in the middle of manic Portobello road is this nice little cafe. I was there on a saturday afternoon and it was quite busy. No doubt its location by the crowds helps.
The service was indifferent. Not good or bad. The atmosphere was nice, although the music didn't seem fitting.
They have separate baristas for pouring the coffee and the milk. The guy doing the milk was good. It was nearly flawless. The coffee itself though was a bit dull. They roast their own and I guess I expected more. I think it was to do with the cup size. My regular seemed more like a large and so with only o...
Give me a multi-axis model of the political spectrum diagram and I’ll mark an ‘x’ where Coffeeplant sits (notwithstanding my residual attitude to a latte as an instrument of bourgeois complacency, standing in the way of the revolution). I ordered my espresso while perusing a flyer on the counter telling me that “Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business” and knew that the beans were fair trade and the milk was squeezed from happy cows who get to live in their farmer’s house and eat special grass and things.
The espresso blend is a Peruvian bean roasted in two ways (...
