Monmouth Coffee Company, Covent Garden, WC2

* I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to add the Monmouth Coffee Company to my Coffee Hot Stops. Their first shop opened in Covent Garden in 1978 and was quite revolutionary. This was THE place to come if you were a serious coffee drinker. At the beginning they roasted beans they bought […]

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Restaurant Review: Kopapa Cafe & Restaurant

Kopapa – Maori for ‘a gathering, to be crowded, a building to store food’ – is one of New Zealand chef, Peter Gordon‘s restaurant’s. Often known as the father of fusion food, I’ve long been excited by his cooking – as seen on TV or read about – though I’d never been to one of […]

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