March 14, 2010 One Comment
Tous Les Jours is one of those places you will not find in the tourist guides. Located off the main streets in a cozy quarter, this is where you’ll find locals having breakfast, while reading the paper or checking their email via the shop’s free wifi network. I’ve often heard myself saying I wouldn’t mind [...]
Read more...March 13, 2010 One Comment
Berlin’s a large city and its layout, lacking a single ‘city centre’ may be confusing at first. The former ‘eastern’ centre is located around Alexanderplatz, whereas the former ‘west’ had its centre near the Zoologischer Garten station. Although both are linked by frequent S-Bahn and U-Bahn lines, getting from one to the other is likely [...]
Read more...March 13, 2010 No Comments
As I’m known to friends and family as a huge fan of Berlin, I frequently get questions about what to do, where to stay and more of such questions. To avoid having to write all my tips down time and time again, thereby undoubtedly forgetting on some tips every time, I decided to make a [...]
Read more...March 11, 2010 No Comments
At the edge of Amsterdam’s city centre, this place always seems to be crowded. The espresso is being made with a lever-operated espresso machine, which always gives me the feeling they’re actually preparing your espresso, rather than simply pushing a button, even though the grinding and tamping is actually the part that makes the difference. [...]
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Broodnodig is a really small coffeehouse with some ten tables. The general atmosphere is, at least when I was there, gezellig (cosy, friendly) and international. The cappuccino is served in a glass that’d usually be used as a water glass, but the taste is good nonetheless. The bean used is really powerful, but also results [...]
Read more...March 7, 2010 No Comments
Considering its location inside the country’s most exclusive department store, this shop is pretentious. With a genuinely friendly smile, the waiter lived up to these expectations, but from there it’s downhill. The ‘La Ruche’-delivery service delivers the cappuccino, made by the super-automatic machine, to the table with the number corresponding to his receipt with an [...]
Read more...March 7, 2010 No Comments
Located right on the train station, which means it’s very suitable for a quick cup of coffee during a changeover, while being completely different from all other Servex-run branches on Dutch train stations. It’s good, near-solid milk foam with an attempt to latte art. The syrup-cappuccino regrettably had too much syrup in it, but the [...]
Read more...March 7, 2010 One Comment
We stumbled upon this place ‘by accident’. Sadly, it was closed then, but we had to return later due to the name, reminding us of a place to be revived by means of espresso. The first time we went there, there were quite a few Italian people. The coffee is superb, be it drowned in [...]
Read more...February 9, 2010 No Comments
Those who know me, might be aware of the fact I’m a film enthusiast. I am not, however, a connoisseur. I have never studied anything film-related, nor do I know most of the terms used in the professional field. Why I consider myself an enthusiast is this: I’d rather buy a movie, so that I [...]
Read more...February 2, 2010 2 Comments
In my future posts tagged ‘coffee’ I will write opinions on the espressos and cappuccinos I enjoy at various coffee houses. Visiting some two coffee houses every week, I noticed that I soon failed to distinguish which coffee houses were among the best and which were not quite there. To finally put an end to [...]
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