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There is a coffee element to the new contest being run by the YBF, the Young British Foodies.  The intention is not to find a best product or best venue, as is the case with so many contests, but to identify and recognise the up-and-coming stars in various forms of food and drink. In the… [Read more]

The new top man for Starbucks in the UK is a former aide to president Bill Clinton, and holds the unique status of being the only person in the coffee trade to have been the role model for a character in a major TV series. He is Kris Engskov, who joined the American coffee chain… [Read more]

In popular modern mythology, the rise of the speciality coffee culture has been largely driven by the ‘young professional’ sector, particularly those in the financial world… which makes it all the more curious that London’s big financial centre, Canary Wharf, is only now to open its first independently-owned coffee house. The reason behind this curiosity… [Read more]

The question has come round again of whether the café trade is approaching the time of the ‘roaster-retailer’, the coffee house which roasts its own beans both for its own use and for in-the-bag sale to customers. This has been predicted on several occasions, and in recent times some of the east London coffee houses… [Read more]