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Featured Customer: The Lido Cafe, London

October 29, 2018

The Lido is a delightfully located café overlooking the popular art deco outdoor swimming facility...

Featured Customer: G&T London

October 29, 2018

This small but perfectly formed stop on the Cambridge Road in East London, is owned by Italian’s Marco and Ilaria...

Burundi Prestige Cup Competition

October 29, 2018

Our first exceptional lot from this up-coming origin finally arrived. It’s been a labour of love to actually...

Featured customer: Curators Coffee, London

October 29, 2018

Catherine Seay, and a small group of antipodean coffee lovers are behind the fairly recently opened Curators Coffee...

Winner of the Union Hand Roasted Best Newcomer Award 2012

October 26, 2018

As well as being a great opportunity to meet old and new friends in the trade, we also got to follow the progress of...

Newcomer Prize Category: Raising the standards, encouraging new talent

October 26, 2018

In such a fast changing landscape, it’s important to embrace and harness the skills of the best people...

UKBC tips from judges and competitors

October 26, 2018

he first UKBC 2012 heat took place in London last weekend. Congratulations to Sang Ho Park...

Union Hand Roasted at UKBC 2012, and the Newcomers Prize

October 26, 2018

Coffee education is pivotal in a barista’s understanding of coffee, from how to recognise quality in coffee...

Cupping the harvest – The pursuit of great coffee: Rwanda July 2011 - Part 1

October 26, 2018

Over the last nine years we’ve been worked initially with one Co-operative, Abahuzamugami ba Kawa, (Maraba), who we proudly...

Cup of Excellence, Colombia September 5–11, 2010.

October 26, 2018

Our cupping week was divided as per CoE rules into two rounds in which we first cupped all 51 samples...

A bad time in Guatemala

October 26, 2018

Some people in Huehuetenango also faced some problems like those, specially the people who live in vulnerable...

Radio 4 and the Food Programme

October 25, 2018

We had the delightful Sheila Dillon visit last week along with food broadcaster Dan Saladino to record a special for BBC Radio 4’s the...

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