Monmouth Coffee
Friend R loves her coffee. I love coffee too. That’s one of the many reasons why we’re such good friends.
She is also constantly on a quest to find the perfect cup of coffee in this enormous city. It has taken her far and wide.
She recently found her coffee Mecca. And luckily, she started introducing her friends to it. It was her idea that I do a post on it. So here we go!
Inside holds magical coffee beans...
We needed to meet early. Any later would have meant waiting in a long queue so 10am on a Saturday morning I schlepped my way to Covent Garden’s Seven Dials and found her staring at freshly baked croissants and trying to decide what coffee to have. We decided to take our time, sit down and do this properly.
Breakfast of the gods...
Breakfast was a flat white for both of us, a lovely croissant for me and fresh brioche for R. The flat whites were great but R felt the need for another coffee. So we asked if we could do some coffee tasting as she’d experienced there before.
Coffee tasting
That’s when the jitters began. They lasted all day. I’m never having that much coffee ever again. The coffee however blew me away.
First up was a smooth blend from Ethiopia. The coffee can be traced directly to the growers too.
The Gujii Gorbiche coffee from Ethipia
Next was a blend from Kenya that was strong with an acidic taste but a bit too full on for my taste.
Kiandu Coffee from Kenya
The barista explained the processes involved in the coffee so well. It was like going to a wine tasting but ending up coffee drunk instead.
We spent the rest of the day hunting down some of London’s Fabergé Easter Eggs and were so hyper that we walked all the way from Covent Garden to Buckingham Palace, up through Green Park, all around Hyde Park, through South Kensington to the V&A Museum and finished up at Kensington’s Cafe Creperie; talking obnoxiously fast the entire way. I was still bouncing off the walls at 11pm that evening. I’m not ever having that much coffee in one sitting ever again, but I will be back to buy some of those Ethiopian coffee beans for a nice cup on a Sunday morning with the papers.
Monmouth Coffee can be found all over London but this fantastic little cafe, the original Monmouth roasting location, is at 27 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden.
Easter Egg Hunt after too much coffee. This one was my favourite egg.
The flat white looks nearly too pretty to drink! And I secretly love getting the jitters (don’t tell anyone!), nothing better than running riot around London on a coffee overload
We certainly were running riot around London! Not only were we talking super fast but I’m sure we were talking super loudly too. The poor Brits around us must have thought “ew, those AWFUL New Zealanders.” oops. But yes, you have to try Monmouth’s flat whites – lovely.
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