Costa v Starbucks

[Charmless Man]

Don't like caffeine. Plus I like subtle flavoured food and drinks. Coffee is a dominant flavour and I can taste it for ages after. It's too much.

There we go then, i like things like coffee, Zinfandel and really Mature Stilton!

 

[PTR]

Thats not really an American thing. They tend to have black coffee. Which is, funnily enough, known as an 'Americano' across Europe.

Americano. Because Americans like their coffee just like their beer.
Watered down.

 

[mogul]

Both shite

 

[Charmless Man]

Americano. Because Americans like their coffee just like their beer.
Watered down.

American beers are magnificent these days and far more full of flavour than your typical CAMRA approved pint of gusset water. Tired, lazy stereotype I'm afraid.

 

[shogun1904]

American beers are magnificent these days and far more full of flavour than your typical CAMRA approved pint of gusset water. Tired, lazy stereotype I'm afraid.

I agree, tried some topper American ales recently.

 

[Cosmopolitan]

Cause being horrible tax dodging cunts is usually something that makes people's coffee taste better?

Did i say that?

 

[Deleted member 634]

Cafe Nero is my favourite of the big chains. Prefer Costa over Starbucks like.

People who put fact at the end of sentences are wrong'uns.

A wrong'un with fresh smelling breath marra

 

[PTR]

American beers are magnificent these days and far more full of flavour than your typical CAMRA approved pint of gusset water. Tired, lazy stereotype I'm afraid.

/sigh

 

[humbug]

costa has the nicest coffee but starbucks have the nicest cookies/shortbread. i quite enjoy having a nice relaxing cup of coffee in any of the above with the mrs after a mooch round the shops.
i also couldn't care less if it's deemed to be cool/uncool.

 

[Charmless Man]

costa has the nicest coffee but starbucks have the nicest cookies/shortbread. i quite enjoy having a nice relaxing cup of coffee in any of the above with the mrs after a mooch round the shops.
i also couldn't care less if it's deemed to be cool/uncool.

You enjoy it if you want there mate!

Fwiw, of the chains Nero is indeed 'the best' but if you're not into coffee you'd not know the difference.

 

[humbug]

You enjoy it if you want there mate!

Fwiw, of the chains Nero is indeed 'the best' but if you're not into coffee you'd not know the difference.

i do like my coffee mate and have heard before that nero is canny. might give it a whirl next time we're out shopping.

 

[Charmless Man]

i do like my coffee mate and have heard before that nero is canny. might give it a whirl next time we're out shopping.

The new 'chain' is this Blue Mountain thing doing coffee from an expensive Jamaican estate. There's definitely one in Cambridge and I'm looking out for one in Norwich.

If you get the Blue Mountain beans from a coffee merchant they're about 4x more expensive than most other beans so I'm wondering how they provide an affordable product in their shops...

Yet to try them anyway as I think the beans aren't 4x as good for 4x the price.

Edit:

Just looked it up and their only UK outlet is Cambridge. Assumed it must be a chain from its décor and placement in a shopping mall

 

[Left For Dead]

Tea for me

You not been in the chain that does tea instead, like a Starbucks but for tea?

 

[chenders]

You not been in the chain that does tea instead, like a Starbucks but for tea?

no

You not been in the chain that does tea instead, like a Starbucks but for tea?

On a side note, very interested in your avatar, is it a Bridon Rope??

 

[Left For Dead]

no



On a side note, very interested in your avatar, is it a Bridon Rope??

Nope.

 

[chenders]

ok

 

[Que sera sera]

http://www.qlcoffeehouse.com

The oldest coffee house in Europe, still going. Predates the United States of America by about 120 years.

I'm going to try this place - Cheers.

Anyway Costa - coffee is better, they pay their taxes and the MD is a MLF

 

[Pallion exile]

All you can drink coffee in Wetherspoons for less than a quid. Good stuff as well.

No good mind for all the puffs and lasses who ask for 'skinny this' and 'extra froth that' on their almond milk cappuccino with sprinkles.

This
Costa n Starbucks are overpriced crap. Wethers or an independant for me.

 

[Baloo]

Both bland as fuck. I can make a much better cup at home for a fraction of the price.

Buy an espresso machine, a burr grinder and some decent beans and your sorted.

And a heads up that pumphreys have an offer on Groupon at the minute making their beans even better value.

Love pumphreys. Decent value as well.

 

[Two-Lane Blacktop]

No offence but this particular part of the forum looks abysmal