Matthew introduced me to a cool new jaunt for caffeine junkies. It’s pretty inconspicuous as it’s housed in a men’s clothing shop called Present on Shoreditch High Street.
The shop itself confusingly has a sign which reads Golden Horn Cigarette Company to lead you off course but the coffee machine at the till front is a bit of a give away when you manage to track the place down.
The coffee is very good but then it would be, it’s served by the highly regarded mega-barista Gwilym Davies who won the World Barista Championships in 2009.
There is a small board which details the offerings: flat white, latte, cappuccino, cortado, espresso, macchiato, long black and coffee beans. Me and Matt both ordered flat whites- I like the texturised milk. It was on a par with the coffee they serve at flat white in Soho and Monmouth.
The clothes in the shop look like the sort of European utilitarian attire that you would expect from Shoreditch and the sort of rags I’d hope to own if I was a guy. The décor was fun with white machine gun mobiles floating above your head and colourful shoes resting on what looked like railway sleepers.
There’s no seating bar a small bench outside to perch, it’s really all about the coffee.
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