It’s with a heavy heart that I announce an end to Cosy Coffee Shops, exactly ten years after visiting our first coffee shop – Pop Cafe in Manchester. 150 coffee shops later (and many…
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La Bottega Milanese has been a fixture of the Leeds coffee scene since 2009. Having moved out of its original HQ on The Calls, La Bottega now has two branches in the centre of…
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Originally opposite the University of Leeds (which we visited way back in 2008), and more recently in Victoria Quarter and Chapel Allerton, Opposite is slowly but surely spreading its spindly tentacles of coffee loveliness…
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Three-times UK Barista Champion Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood is on a caffeine-fuelled mission to rule the world. We certainly won’t try and stop him; his coffees and cafés are pictures of perfection. His second shop –…
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Society Café is in such a fabulous central location, so often reserved for tourist traps in beautiful cities like Bath, that it might be mistakenly overlooked by the indie coffee shop hunter. At it turns out, Society…
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Central but tucked away on an unassuming side street, Mrs Atha’s is undoubtedly one of Leeds’ top speciality coffee shops. It’s one of those places that, on first glance, gives off a slightly mixed vibe. Any…
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As you may have noticed, we’ve given Cosy Coffee Shops a facelift. We wanted it to be lighter, sleeker, more accessible. It was also a little bloated, not only for our readers but behind…
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Lee and Lucy (neither a Stanley nor Ramona in sight), are an odd sort of double act. Lee’s the dry, sardonic one; Lucy’s the warm, smiling one. A sort of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance…