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More great coffee in Leeds – La Bottega Milanese

March 10, 2010 Eating out
More great coffee in Leeds - La Bottega Milanese

There are plenty of places to get a cup of coffee in Leeds, but the problem is, most of them are very bad indeed. If you want the best part of a pint of steamed milk with a shot of badly roasted espresso in it, there’s a Starbucks or one of it’s clones on nearly [...]

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Opposite – real coffee in Leeds

August 7, 2009 Eating out
Opposite Coffee, Leeds

I wrote last week about the new Starbucks stealth cafés that are springing up in Seattle, and as an afterthought added that Opposite in the Victoria Quarter probably serves the best coffee in Leeds. This doesn’t do Opposite justice. Opposite’s original branch is opposite the Parkinson building at the University of Leeds, tempting academics out [...]

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On the tragic state of coffee in the office

October 3, 2008 Food politics
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There are a couple of things I dislike about my job. One is Internal Audit, the other is this coffee machine. This coffee machine is my office nemesis. It serves the worst coffee imaginable – too strong, foul tasting, with little bits of undissolved instant coffee around the top of the too small plastic cup. [...]

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