Coffee as it's meant to be
08 Jan 08, 14:32
Beyond expectations
Forget your Caffe Nero and Starbucks of this world - Monmouth Coffee is where it's at.
At the Borough Market branch you can get a cup of whatever coffee you desire and buy some to take home as well.
They really know the stuff here, so not only will they help you choose what's right for you, but they'll grind the beans, or leave them as nature intended, and even ask you what you're using them for, because different grinds, affect different methods of coffee-making.
Plus, they have two different types of decaff, made using the Swiss Water method, so no chemicals. Yippee!
Excellent coffee... if you can get a seat!
24 Oct 07, 11:06
Above expectations
It's always rammed in here. They do amazing coffee, I love the open fronted shop with long wooden benches to huddle up on and scoff jam and bread. The communal tables work really well (I'm not usually a fan of that kind of thing) but in Monmouth I don't mind brushing elbows with fellow coffee guzzlers!
A whole new world, of coffe
17 Oct 07, 16:24
Above expectations
Now I know that coffee comes from two different types of beans and that there were more types than just instant or 'proper' coffee as we call it in my house. And that Nescafe carefully selected and blended their beans in an effort, at least it seemed to me to produce brown muck, but basically I knew nothing about coffee.
In to the picture swims Monmouth coffee. The first one I visited was in fact in the west end, near to seven dials, but this branch on a corner in foodie mecca, Brough Market is just as lovely.
I always used to think that the high pressure continential way was the best, but Monmouth use a simple combination of fresh grinding and drip filtering to produce quite some of the nicest coffee I have ever tasted. There's a long and complex menu setting out the coffee's by region, and giving an explanation of the flovour, much like a wine list. All very interessting, but ignore that and go straight for the coffee of the day. Some days it'll suit your tastes better than others, but it'll always be a new experience. I love Monmouth coffee, the sweetness and richness of some of the African coffee's is quite the revalation, just don't go messing it up with milk and sugar now, you heathens!
Edward H.
Seven Sisters
11 reviews
Coffee know-how
29 Jul 07, 13:13
Beyond expectations
These people know their coffee!
As you wander through Borough Market, you will notice a queue of people snaking out into the road from this fabulous coffee shop - people really don't mind waiting for something this good (and the staff are very prompt, often with someone walking down the queue to take your order).
If you are very lucky, you might get a place at the big table, to tuck into some simple bread and jam, or you can perch yourself on a stool in the window but, more often than not, you will find yourself on a bench out in the street, which is great in this area, with so much going on.
Why not team your excellent coffee with a cake from next door (see my review of Konditor and Cook) and wander around the market?
