The Missing Bean coffee - review

Amazing how fast we manage to get through coffee beans in our house! It's time for the beans I purchased at the Missing Bean in Oxford on Friday and I have to say the coffee is really nice! Mild and good probably for everyone (not too acidic, not very strong or heavy) but pleasant and most of all - well roasted! It's a good quality material for a good cup of coffee - from Brazil to our tables! Really enjoying it!

The Missing Bean in Oxford - review

Photo by Magda Goud

When I asked on Twitter about good places to have a coffee in Oxford the Missing Bean came up on the first place so last Friday I finally made it there and I was not dissapointed. Great location, great service and brilliant coffee! (still not tried the locally roasted coffee beans but will do shortly;)). 

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ScooterCaffè, London - review

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It's going to be the shortest review ever - it's simply a place you cannot miss! I so wish we had one like this in Wantage or at least Oxford. Originally a place to repair your Vespa is today an amazing little coffee shop and bar where one feels as if the time would stop (not only because you hear "Good Morning!" after midday;)). I think I need to go there few more times to bring back more facts. I went there just before a longer social media training and managed to switch off, relax and enjoy a really good cup of coffee. You know it's going to be a good one if details of its preparation are explained to you. My cuppa was magnificent. Combined with the design of the place, its history and great service I really suggest you try it out!

Evening treat!

I am such a kid! I just love little treats and small changes to our daily routine. We had a few sunny days recently so my boyfriend and I decided to go for a walk and browse around our little town. You would not believe how many secrets a little town can have! That day we have discovered a small show with kitchen equipement and a lot of small but really fascinating gadgets (rolling garlic peeler that looked like a yoyo?!). I came home with coffee stencils from LaCafetiere I did not even know you can get hold off in shops! (Actually you cannot get them on-line!). On a sunny evening a latte was of course a perfect choice! I had a lot of fun and the end results were sweet (specially when served with small pieces of Polish Ptasie Mleczko). 

3 random coffee experiences

 I have a backlog of coffee posts but when I started this blog I was aware that I will not be able to dedicate a lot of time to it so I have back then decided not to stress out. I have to say though - this coffee blog writing is not only changing people's perception about me (suddenly everyone is sharign their coffee links and stories with me - which I LOVE dearly!) but it also changes the intensity of my every day experiences. So my three random experiences from the last few weeks were:

 

1. Coffee at the Bodleian. 

Last week on Monday I was invited to one of the offices of Bodleian Library to talk social media by a friend who was kind to invite me for a coffee at their canteen. It's a closed space available only for people with Library passes which on the top of my usual fascination of academic institutions and Gothic architecture created this funny feeling of suddenly landing in a magic land or maybe a movie? Something close to the reality yet not quite right. I was happy to try their fair trade coffee and I have to say I loved it! There was something paradoxical in drinking a coffee from plastic cup in that place...I am not sure what but I will remember that cuppa.

 

2. Coffee at the Blackbaud offices in London.

Offices and coffee. While hosting a training on social media in Blackbaud Europe offices in London I had the opportunity to try out their range of pre-packed sachet coffee. Those moments when I am making my choice (Ethiopia!) and press few buttons but do not really get to see the coffee itself are a bit surreal too. But most of all they bring out the geek and the kid in me. Do you not feel like you are winning something when you buy a can of coke from a vending machine?;) 

3. Mocha dessert from Sainsbury's. 

Very unexpected little present from my boyfriend in response to my evening craving for something "creamy, sweet, dessert-like and most of all totally forbidden at this time of the day". Apart from a mild dissatisfaction that the coffee beans are actually made of chocolate I really loved it. And as I wished for - it was indeed really, really heavy so I do not think I ate anything else that night. A lovely cup of sweet pleasure though, do try it out;)