Monmouth Coffee Company

Coffee excellent, but really is a shop without frills, no butter or jam with croissants, nor cream with the limited pastry selection and an in-your-face seating arrangement.
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John Kernaghan
8 Overall rating
Food 5 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Thursday, May 12, 2011

My coffee was too bitter and too strong. There was nothing sophisticated nor artisan about it. It probably depends who makes the coffee, perhaps I was unlucky that day, but I really regretted drinking it.
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Maya
2 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 1
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Everytime I'm around Leicester Sq/Covent Garden area I make a purposeful pilgrimage to Monmouth to get my cappu/flat white fix. The coffee is the best I have ever had - the milk+foam is so smooth is surreal, and the caffeine kick is so beautiful and strong it's almost illegal (in a good way).

They raise their prices to £2.30 recently but I think that is well worth it - I'd rather shell out that extra 40p than have 10 Pret (bitter aftertaste, soapy-textured foam) or Starbucks (...) coffees instead. The only other coffee joint that has come close for me is the newly opened illy espressamente stand outside Euston station.

Not much needs to be said about the brilliant (and highly alternative, foreign and - dare I say it - hippyesque staff, who keep their cool and friendliness even when it gets really busy in the at-times claustrophobic space available. I like the seating area - have met some interesting people par hasard while sharing the olde booths with strangers.

(The food 9 stars because while I'd give the coffee 11, the patisseries and pastries sourced from the like of Paul are nice but not exactly mind-blowing).
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Tara
9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 8
Wednesday, March 11, 2009