Daily Coffees and cafes

My local coffee shop is at a Mill by a river and they offer dog biscuits for the hounds. I go twice a week after a long walk. The only annoying thing is that they don’t open until 10 am which to me seems very late. Or maybe they think people will spend more on the cakes once they have worked up an appetite!

We only have independent coffee/tea shops on our High Road, I will not venture in to Costa or Starbucks I don’t mind Cafe Nero at a push.

Some Waterstones book stores have a coffee shop in them, they do scrummy cakes and a good coffee and tea.

Our local cafe has put the prices up .An Americano and a croissant was over£5.00.I think the cappuccino was £2.90.

Nooo- not that awful American Starbucks stuff- not many here like that.

One of the great pleasures in life.

I started at the age of 11 taking myself into Birmingham and going for an orange squash and a choc cake with a face on the top.

I graduated in my teens to going to a coffee bar with my friends for a frothy coffee in a glass cup and sauce.

I now at the age of 76 go to a lovely Italian cafe in my small town for a strong cappuccino and if DH is with me we share an almond croissant nicely warmed. I still go on my own and take my Kindle.

JaneJudge

My Mum never went to cafes and I don't really either, I do go to the pub though

Vice versa in my childhood. I don’t think I went into a pub until we attended a wedding when I was about 14. Mum and dad shared a bottle of cider at home a couple of times a year.

We occasionally went with mum for a treat to an Italian ice cream parlour. She’d have what I guess would be a cappuccino today and we’d have cones. The highlight was when she let us have some of the froth from her coffee on top of the ice cream. Heaven! ☕️ ?

www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/16/waitrose-to-bring-back-free-hot-drinks-for-loyalty-card-members

I do not like tea and never drink it so it is coffee for me each time.

Thanks for letting me know that Waitrose is starting that again. At my local, the coffee machine etc was close to the entrance so people would drive in, park, grab a coffee and run. I think the security guard may be more on the ball this time.

I can remember me and my mum having to share a pot of tea for one, because we didn't have enough money for one each.

It was still nice to sit and rest, though.

I’ll always remember when we suddenly realised that we could afford to have a coffee when we were out. A friend of ours who didn’t have children and was better off than us used to take us out for a pub meal once a year so the children would know what it was like to eat out. And then the pandemic hit and we stopped going out altogether.

SueDonim

Don’t forget the free hot drink and a cake for two for your birthday gift from Dobbie’s, V3ra!

Ooh yes! My friend and I had some nice cakes back in April and May, I had forgotten about that! ????

meeting people in whichever suits you is healthy

I long for a decent cup of tea out -Costa's tea has to the worst that I've ever tasted .
If I can get to the larger shopping centre then I love tea at Patisserie Valerie .
I love coffee , but it doesn't love me .
I can get great coffee locally and I risk one when shopping .
And enjoy a cake .

Same Jane friends are met either in their house or ours, out for a meal occasionally or, in the local ?

My Mum never went to cafes and I don't really either, I do go to the pub though

I bloody wish I could still manage it.

It’s a social thing going out for coffee or tea, you could make it at home cheaper and for some better but by going out you are meeting people and surrounded by life going on

My local Wetherspoons which is a pleasant building does very good value coffee with a view of passers by. It doesn’t feel like a pub in the mornings.
My DH and I do go out for coffee and I also go with friends but it’s often as a cheaper alternative to a meal.

I used to be able to spend four or five hours, here, "nipping" down town.

So many people I bumped into and had a coffee with.

I'd be awash with it, by the time I came home.

I go for coffee/cake only when I meet up with a friend (fortnightly, on average) but I eat out a lot (pubs), usually 3 or 4 times a week

I had a really bad coffee habit once, but no longer I'm glad to say. I put that down to having found just the right coffee pod to not want to buy a coffee when out, although it's always an independent but occasionally, just as well given the price!

Sometimes I have coffee, sometimes I have tea.

It’s just so nice to be out amongst other folks and having had a base here for 50 years there is always someone I know or knew family members to chat with.

My life is coffee with occasional work breaks.

I think my life is punctuated by times of having coffee breaks in various locations.