With the London coffee scene continuing to rapidly evolve, Retail Focus surveys current trends and recent developments in their April issue coffee shop survey. We were delighted to have the new Coffeesmiths shop The Liberty of Norton Folgate profiled alongside the latest concepts of international brands such as Nespresso and Starbucks. It’s another reflection that [...]
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In Focus: The Liberty of Norton Folgate in Sharp Contrast
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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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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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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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