2009-11-07 Sat - Espresso Ride

Grrrrrrr.....

Murtle?

I know how to make a bloody Irish Coffee young man!

Prove it, bring a few to Wests and I shall sample them.

leather lane in ec1 u mean?

Cafeine & gunpowder that's sound like a plan Stan!!!!!

Supercollida.... Can you spell caffeine? Back to school young man....

I'm in, at a party the night before so will be needing a few coffees anyway!

1. tuiloui
   
2. mmccarthy
   
3. afternoon
   
4. Daveypants
   
5. Strip My Mind
   
6. hippy
   
7. Velocio
   
8. cani
   
9. joe smiff
   
10. blind dan LOVES COFFEE
    
11. truli
    
12. diapo
    
13. Bainbridge
    

Troubadour has some good beers. If we're feeling too wired by then, we could hit the booze.

(Disclosure: I live in Fulham, so ending at Troubadour is totally in my favour :-)

In as long as I can get the day off of work, looks like good fun :)

1. tuiloui
   
2. mmccarthy
   
3. afternoon
   
4. Daveypants
   
5. Strip My Mind
   
6. hippy
   
7. Velocio
   
8. cani
   
9. joe smiff
   
10. blind dan LOVES COFFEE
    
11. truli
    
12. diapo
    
13. Bainbridge
    
14. CrazyJames
    

OK so where else are we going to go? Seems a bit vague at the moment...

Kipferl do fantastic Grosse Braune/Kleine Braune (sp). I think their shop at Smithfield is open saturday but not sure.

The guys and girls who run a stall on Whitecross St during the week are excellent! Won barista of the year (or some such accolade) in Seattle recently. Not sure where their stall is on a saturday, they're at Columbia Rd on a sunday. Anyone know?

Flat White is a good choice but their other one on bateman street, Milkbar, has a Topeak track pump for general use... they win.

Anyone know somwhere appropriate where you can get Lebanese/Turkish coffee? That would a be a nice touch.

Also: should this be done in small groups, otherwise the coffee shops will be inundated with orders and everybody waiting...

My proposal for the ride starts at Leather Lane for coffee, chocolate and doughnuts. Then we'll ride across the river to Southwark Market to Monmouth, then to soho for Flat White, then Brompton Road to Troubadour.

To answer the questions, the Whitecross boys are in talks to come to Leather Lane, I'll ask them what they are doing on the 7th. If anybody has any suggestions for changes to the route, shout out, coffee is a very individual taste. Now, I suspect that not everyone will want a coffee at every stop, and there is capacity at these places, albeit we'll probably need to queue a while.

Now, Turkish? You fancy Algerian on Old Compton?

for turkish there's surely bound to be a gem green lanes/dalston way.

Coffee Plant on Portobello Rd is my morning stop and at £0.90 for an espresso it's a steal as well I think.

for turkish there's surely bound to be a gem green lanes/dalston way.

Well, a lot of turkish grills don't sell it, in my experience, but those weird looking mens cards & pool clubs probably do. I'd rather not.

I was think more along the lines of Lebanese joints like around Edgware Road or Queensway. Lebanese coffee wins, hands down. Once you get into it, you start to miss the sludgey stuff at the bottom, when you have to get other kinds ...

Never had it at the Algerian, worth a try.

a forum ride without proper drink?????
wtf

Coffee to start, beer to finish. Have you learned nothing?

there's a gaff near ours called bodrum that we get turkish breakfast at sometimes, does a mean turkish coffee, up in stoke newington, might be a far reach for some.

I'm actually looking for a job as a barista as it happens.
If you've got anything in West London definitely get in touch!

Sure. Cafe d'Hippy needs a full-time bike cleaner barista. 5p/week.

mccarthy: Irish Coffee was just some crap to please American tourists anyway.
I'd stop mentioning that shit if I were you.

Empty bean grinder = fail

Have you learned nothing?

Yes.

mccarthy: Irish Coffee was just some crap to please American tourists anyway.
I'd stop mentioning that shit if I were you.

Trying to get some sense into Mick?

Good luck. ;P

mccarthy: Irish Coffee was just some crap to please American tourists anyway.
I'd stop mentioning that shit if I were you.

It is pretty nice though, it's got nothing on Baileys coffee though.

Trying to get some sense into Mick?

Good luck. ;P

+1

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1. tuiloui
   
2. mmccarthy
   
3. afternoon
   
4. Daveypants
   
5. Strip My Mind
   
6. hippy
   
7. Velocio
   
8. cani
   
9. joe smiff
   
10. blind dan LOVES COFFEE
    
11. truli
    
12. diapo
    
13. Bainbridge
    
14. CrazyJames
    
15. Jester
    
    

'T-shirt prizes for the most pretentious bike/inappropriately dressed for the temperature'

guess I better dust off the floss thong then....

My proposal for the ride starts at Leather Lane for coffee, chocolate and doughnuts. Then we'll ride across the river to Southwark Market to Monmouth, then to soho for Flat White, then Brompton Road to Troubadour.

This sounds good to me. This is already way more coffee than I can drink without going completely mental. Conversation on the leg from Soho to Brompton Road should be hilarious.

My route out West from Soho is out through Mayfair, round Hyde Park Corner, around Belgrave Square, nip up to South Ken and then along the Brompton Road. Avoids the smog of Piccadilly and Knightsbridge. HPC isn't ideal, but if there are a bunch of us, we can do a mini Critical Mass :-).