Key Post: The best coffee in Dublin ?

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Unregistered said:
Let's hope Starbucks and Costa Coffee arrive in Dublin soon
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Living in the UK there seems to be a Starbucks or Costa , just about everywhere. I think they're really overpriced, and in the case of Starbucks the coffee often disgusting. At least it was last time I tried them - I've given up going to them because of that.
When i go back home (Waterford) , or visit Cork, Dublin and other places, I really like going to the smaller coffee places where usually the coffee is freshly made and usually cheaper tha it is here in England.
Can't rmember the name of any place in Dublin though sorry. (Cafe Luna in Waterford is good, with a choice of coffees, and since the smoking ban no school kids in there in the afternoon - very civilised )
 
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...Just back from Barcelona, and couldn't get a bad cup of coffee anywhere in the place!

Unbelievable - no matter where you go, they seem to be able to make a Café con Leche (basically a small Latte) to die for!

It must be the training...
 
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I can't get over office workers buying bad, overpriced coffee on the way into the office each morning. They'd be doing themselves a favour by buying decent ground coffee and the right equipment and making it in work. Tastes a lot bette and a lot cheaper.
 
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I've been to a few Starbucks in California/SF and don't know what all the fuss is about. Give me my local regular haunts, Panem or West Coast Coffee Company any day.
 
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Best coffee in Dublin is - ahem - in my kitchen in the morning, but I'm afraid it's not going to do the rest of yiz any good.

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MonsieurBond said:
...Just back from Barcelona, and couldn't get a bad cup of coffee anywhere in the place!

Unbelievable - no matter where you go, they seem to be able to make a Café con Leche (basically a small Latte) to die for!

It must be the training...
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In my day we used to call that a white coffee! And it was cheaper.
 
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dublinboy said:
In my day we used to call that a white coffee! And it was cheaper.
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Actually, no, a white coffee is coffee made with recently boiled water and milk added, the Spanish café con leche is basically a small latte.

I have tried the new Starbucks in town and find them exceedingly expensive. Unfortunately, I am expecting the other chains to raise their prices to the same level, rather than Starbucks to see the light and lower theirs.

Spending over €3 a day for a coffee is getting a bit much - over a fiver in Starbucks for a coffee and a muffin!

I think I will go back to my cafetiere as europhile suggests below.
 
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IMHO Larry David nails it in Curb Your Enthusiasm

[while ordering coffee at Starbucks]
Larry David: I'll have a vanilla... one of those vanilla bull$hit things. You know, whatever you want, some vanilla bull$hit latte cappa thing. Whatever you got.

.. later ..

Larry David: "This is very good, by the way. This is a cafe latte? What is that, Milk?"
Coffee Shop Employee: "Milk, uh, and-"
Larry David: "Milk and coffee."
Coffee Shop Employee: "Yeah."
Larry David: "Milk and coffee, who would've thought! Milk and coffee! Oh my, Oh my God, what a drink! It's milk and coffee, mixed together! You've gotta go there!"
 
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ThomasJ said:
Coffee2Go Mespil Rd, the biggest cups and best value...
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ThomasJ - Coffee to go rocks! And their strawberry scones mmmmmm. I don't work near there any more. Nearest coffee is starbucks which is absolute rubbish.
 
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Europhile is spot on about making your own coffee. When I was in the US, a lot of people used paper coffee filters with a cheap plastic funnel, which you sat on top of the cup. Does anyone know if you can get the funnels here ?
I haven't seen them anywhere, they were simple but effective, and easier to use & better than plungers.
 
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I seem to recall seeing those individual serving filter cones in Arnotts a few years ago.

Ignoring specialist coffee shops the "coffee" served everywhere else in the US is awful in my experience.
 
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Cork Cork Cork Cork Cork

There's a place in Cork (French Church street, or Carey's Lane) which sell (and roast) green beans while you wait.
It is a chocolate Shop, but they cateer for the coffee lover also.
And you get a free handmade choc with any coffee.

Also Fast Als pizza has great coffee (shame its only togo).
 
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When I worked in Dublin many moons ago there was a small little coffee shop/ corner shop at the top of Dawson Street (on the same side as the church) that I used to frequent. One of their americanos to go and a king size Marathon (as it was at the time) was only heaven! I wonder if it's still there, the owner was a nice bloke.
 
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I seem to recall seeing those individual serving filter cones in Arnotts a few years ago
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They were called Rombout coffee filters. I remember working as a waitress on the Ring of Kerry about 17 or 18 years ago and serving Rombout coffee which we thought was the height of sophistication.
 
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Maybe you're referring to those individual capsules/sachets of coffee rather than just a filter cone which takes grounds and sits on a mug? Or maybe I don't know what I'm talking about here (quite possible!)?
 
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Rombout were individual plastic cup like moulds, with coffee in the base. You sat one on a cup, filled it up to the water mark and put on a lid. The water gradually filtered down through the permeable base into the cup. They were for once-off use only and then discarded. I think the only reason I remember them so well is that one of the waitresses tried to nick a box of them when leaving and the daughter of the owner caught her. They were expensive bloody yokes even then!
 
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I have something similar at home, except the 'filter' is perforated metal and, thus, reusable.

Quality of coffee is OK - not great - just OK.
 
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ClubMan said:
Ignoring specialist coffee shops the "coffee" served everywhere else in the US is awful in my experience.
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snigger. you obviously have a very limited experience of america. the coffee there is pretty fantastic - especially compared to here
 
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I've been to the US about ten times on business trips for up to two weeks at a time so my experience is indeed limited but extensive enough for me to form the personal opinion that the coffee generally served in hotels, diners, restaurants, workplaces etc. is poor.
 
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perhaps you should stay in better hotels, eat in better diners and restaurants and make the workplace coffee yourself? they have great coffee in america but yes it is possible to get crap too. for instance the coffee in dunkin donuts is as very good, much better than you would get in many hotels, especially buffet breakfast type places where many business travellers end up.
 
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