Tag Archives: london

London Coffee Jobs website

By James Hoffmann | Published: December 1, 2009

Today I created a simple website with a simple goal:
Connect quality focused cafes/coffee roasters/coffee suppliers with potential staff.
I get a lot of emails, and meet a lot of people looking for barista jobs in London, and I know shops are always looking but I forget to keep track of exactly who. The idea of the [...]

Posted in Announcement | Also tagged Barista, jobs, roaster | 7 Comments

Thoughts after a public cupping

By James Hoffmann | Published: June 7, 2009

I’ve really enjoyed the discussion going on after this post. One comment that stuck in my mind was Aldo’s Fazenda Kaquend COE Vs Maxwell House experiment. It definitely affected some decisions I made when I was choosing coffees to take with me to a public cupping I did in East London as part [...]

Posted in Coffee, Opinion | Also tagged brewing, coe, Coffee, consumer, cupping, Origin | 21 Comments

Brewed coffee and the UK

By James Hoffmann | Published: May 30, 2009

This is something of a summary of the short talk I gave at the Allegra Strategies UK Coffee Leader Summit a week or so ago. Please also bear in mind that this talk was directed at the UK market specifically so won’t necessarily hold true for other national coffee cultures.
For me this talk was a [...]

Posted in Opinion | Also tagged article, Barista, brewing, Coffee, consumer, drinks, economy, Espresso, history, innovation, italy, marketing, pricing, quality, tradition, trust | 42 Comments

Italian coffee culture in the UK

By James Hoffmann | Published: February 28, 2009

This morning I spoke to a journalist on the phone who is writing about coffee in London, as well as the antipodean influence on our coffee scene.
One of the questions he asked was about the influence of Italian populations on coffee cultures. In Australia a good chunk of credit for the early rise of coffee [...]