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Milk Bar - a highlight

Milk Bar - a highlight.

While improvements in the Dublin coffee scene over the past couple of years are plain to see, perspective is often missing. Sure there’s a growing awareness, but even if I was being kind you could count the number of places where you’d get a good to great coffee on one hand. Dublin is a relatively small city though; the demand and the necessary footfall probably aren’t there yet. London on the other hand is not relatively small (does Mumbai count?). Having spotted an upcoming Square Mile Espresso tasting session, myself, Fergus and local barista and friend Colin decided now was as good a time as any to cross the Irish sea and see if all those cafés we’d heard about on Too Much Coffee would live up to the billing. (more…)

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New York

New York

Having recently returned from New York I thought it might be a nice idea to write a few words about the coffee ‘scene’ there. Well, that’s as much as I had written when I started to write this article several weeks ago. The trip is now only recent if we’re speaking in terms of seasons or longer. It’s been so long, Dave has even stopped asking me how it’s coming along. He hasn’t stopped writing snarky remarks about me on boards.ie as one of my colleagues pointed out to me the other day. (more…)

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