Wired
We’re quirky, we’re truly independent, we’ve got a La Marzocco… and we’re not afraid to use it! — Wired
As I excited Cobden Chambers in Reading, I noticed opposite, I did not notice before, Wired.
Appearances can be very deceptive. Wired looks like a greasy spoon cafe and I wondered what I was doing there, until I noticed serving Allpress, on display Standart, Drift, and London Coffee as reading material.
I had not had Allpress since Jimmy Bean vanished from Winchester.
Good reasons to stay.
I found a window seat and ordered a cappuccino. A sprinkling of chocolate, not enough to bother me and send it back.
Excellent, far better than the house blend at 200 Degrees (I have yet to try their guest espresso).
Down below a basement, better described as a basement lounge, as completely different in character to the ground floor.
A handful of seats outside.
I could, if ordered a takeaway, returned to Cobden Chambers.
In addition to Allpress, guest single origin coffee for pour over, Craft House Coffee (Colombia and Costa Rica) and Pharmacia.
Craft House Coffee is based in Sussex, though I have never come across them in Brighton.
All the coffee was available to buy as coffee beans.
I was kindly given a sample of CHC Burundi for coffee cupping.
Synchronicty: I opened Standart an early edition of which I had not seen before. It opened at an article about Martin Hudak, who I met last year at the Union Summer Carnival.
The Drift, was an early edition, volume 3 the Havana edition.
The very first time I have seen Drift in the UK, apart from Magazine Brighton.
I was advised, try Ideas on Paper, it is from where all the coffee books and magazines came, they may have a copy, they keep back copies.
I did and found the Havana edition. I did not think to inquire of earlier editions or of earlier editions of Standart.
Synchronicty: Next day reading the Havana edition, a tweet of the strange yellow taxis featured in Drift.
Very knowledgeable, pleasant and helpful barista, the manager, not the owner, the owner I did not meet.
