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Make Good Coffee in Style
Always keen to raise the profile of quality coffee, the Coffeesmiths team collaborated with Stylist to pull off the cover shot for their recent coffee ...
Noted on Twitter: “Today we are mostly reading @BoatMagazine. It’s not about boats, it’s about London http://t.co/4l7NMvUW”
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Make Good Coffee in Style
Always keen to raise the profile of quality coffee, the Coffeesmiths team collaborated with Stylist to pull off the cover shot for their recent coffee feature. With half a studio of photography kit in the Speakeasy Brew Bar, four hours, countless pours, multiple dairy products and a bit of Photoshop we arrived at the finished [...]
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Chancery Lane Coffee: A Work In Progress
Chancery Lane Coffee Last December we ran a customer survey at Department of Coffee and Social Affairs. We wanted to better understand what people thought about us. The survey gave us two very clear messages: 1) Don’t you dare to change anything; we like things just the way they are thank you, and 2) It’s [...]
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Today we open The Liberty of Norton Folgate. It’s a coffee shop like no other.
At the edge of the City of London, just before Shoreditch, Bishopsgate runs out and becomes ‘Norton Folgate’. Despite being a major artery into the City, it’s obscure. So obscure that I’m yet to meet a single cabbie that knows where it is. In fairness, the present day Norton Folgate runs for just one block. [...]
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The Times They Are a-Changin’
It’s exciting times for coffee drinkers. Not that long ago a double-page spread on coffee in The Times would have been unthinkable – let alone with a focus on filter coffee. So, we’re delighted to see the drink that we love being championed in a national. Well done to Nick Baines who penned the piece [...]
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Light My Way: Finding Your Way to Eateries in Paris
There has been so much written about food in Paris that there leaves little to be (intelligently) said about its culture, practises, techniques and, of course, where the best places are to dine. But until Paris’ independent eateries learn to build basic websites, making a booking and finding your way there is often a challenge. [...]
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Public Praise: Speakeasy makes Top 30 Coffee Shops 2012
I was delighted to see Speakeasy Espresso & Brew Bar listed in the Top 30 in The London Coffee Guide 2012, published by Allegra Strategies, a market researcher. John and the team are doing an amazing job and the shop deserves more critical praise to match the popular acclaim. The shop has been welcomed to [...]
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Tripping the Light Fantastic
At approximately 24m long, 8.5m high but only 2.6m deep, designing and fitting out the latest Coffeesmiths site at 201 Bishopsgate has been a conceptual, practical, operational and logistical challenge. However, it is these proportions and the gently curved glass frontage that give the site so much of its appeal. Without fail, everyone visiting the [...]
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Coffee is a global opportunity
Work with us in one of the best coffee businesses in one of the world’s most vibrant cities. One of the joys of working in coffee is that you are immediately part of a global network. As Coffeesmiths continues to grow in 2012, we looking for good people to come and join the team. Check [...]
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Department of Coffee and Social Affairs Celebrates Its First Birthday
One year ago we were pouring our first shots at Department of Coffee and Social Affairs. We’d just finished the fit out while London was grinding to a standstill in the snow, the shop had – literally – been a building site a few days before and the team were meeting each other for the [...]
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Speakeasy Espresso & Brew Bar
Speaking and listening Coffee is a social drink, and coffee shops are social environments. Coffeesmiths is always taking inspiration from London’s last coffee heyday in the post-War period as a springboard to explore what a coffee shop can and should be in the contemporary context. The success of Department of Coffee and Social Affairs has [...]
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Albam Angels
To mark the arrival of the festive season and the opening of their new Seven Dials shop, Albam Clothing commissioned friend and illustrator Zoë Barker to draw a series of Christmas jersey clad guys enjoying the season. Drawn in her distinct and considered style with beautiful line work, it’s always a pleasant surprise to stumble [...]
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Grazia Daily Fashion Bloggers Event at Speakeasy Espresso & Brew Bar
Coffeesmiths is always keen to champion and foster communities and networks because we believe that good coffee shops are always social nodes within our neighbourhoods. This was put to the test in new way when Speakeasy Espresso & Brew Bar teamed up with Grazia Daily to host their first Fashion Bloggers Event. It was a [...]
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Unlike Any Other: Coffee as a Social Institution
The team from London.Unlike deemed Department of Coffee and Social Affairs a coffee shop unlike any other government organisation. It’s a narrow field, but we’ll take that as a compliment. I always find it rewarding when reviwers get both the connoisseurship and social aspect of our coffee shops. You can read the full article at [...]
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Building a View for the World: Façades, by Carita Laamanen
With engineering precision London-based, Finnish photographer Carita Laamanen crafts images in her liking of the world. In her current exhibition Façades, Carita explores how we carefully construct first impressions in a less than honest way. All her images a deftly and delicately framed and shot on 35mm film, but deliberately, and slightly disconcertingly, revealing about [...]
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The Future Faces of Fashion
With Christmas almost upon us, London’s central areas are beating the retail drum. Judging by the turnout at Thursday’s Carnaby Shopping Party, it’s going to healthy – but competitive – Christmas trading period. To celebrate Carnaby’s place in the London fashion scene, Coffeesmiths teamed up with Grazia, sponsors of the shopping party, to host their [...]
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A Work In Progress
With genuine ambition, vision and message, Barbican’s OMA/Progress exhibition builds and deconstructs the purpose of architecture whilst celebrating its process. Curated by Rotor, the deliberately fragmented and eclectic exhibition freely uses the guise of presenting OMA’s body of work as a case study to explore the issues, values and preoccupations of architects and their implication [...]
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A Local Globe Is a Win for London
It’s rather nice to see cycling advocate, illustrator and all around lovely Zoë Barker’s work for Bobbin Bicycles x Globe Bikes being honoured in Time Out London’s Best 100 Shops. The Bobbin x Globe shop comes in at number 54. Zoë worked to localise the Globe’s communications for their new London flagship by partnering with [...]
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Wilderthorn Requests
Over the Summer we enjoyed an inmate gig in John and Juliet’s living room as Wilderthorn, Jon Bilbrough, toured the nation’s houses in his ‘Home Tour’. His soaring voice and intimate vocals captivated the collection of friends as he performed a set of his own material supported by his brother. His performance far out-shone the [...]
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