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Tue Jul 3 2012
Kaffeine remains as popular as ever: there was barely a spare seat on a rainy Friday lunchtime. Staff coped brilliantly, taking pains to be helpful and friendly to customers and colleagues alike. The attractive room of muted earth tones and exposed brick is similarly warm and welcoming.
Food has always been taken seriously here and is stronger than ever, far exceeding mere café grub. Think heritage tomato salad with watercress, sea purslane and hedge garlic, or pulled pork belly on candy beetroot and radicchio. There are good-looking sandwiches, a tart of the day and, on our visit, the large selection of baked goods was constantly replenished from the kitchen downstairs.
Dozens of elegantly feathered milky drinks went past us, and the essentials of machine maintenance were observed rigorously. Our espresso (Square Mile beans from a Synesso machine) was of fine quality, sweet and rounded, though it wasn’t hot enough by the time it reached us (a common problem these days). If there is a complaint about Kaffeine, it’s that you feel guilty for dawdling when there’s a queue for tables.
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