[anarchitect]

When I moved to London from Adelaide, Australia six years ago there were very few places you could get a reliably good cup of coffee.

Over the following years, Flat White opened in Soho and slowly but surely more cafés with a focus on coffee followed. It has to be said that the baristas in most of them are often Australian or Kiwi.

[goatforce5]

I was once waiting for my coffee in Flat White and got to overhear a conversation between the barista and someone with a backpack who had just come from Heathrow. It went something like:

"Bruno just got a X300 espresso machine for his Fitzroy location, but - get this - he's put a G2 filter on it!"

"A G2?!"

"G2!"

"Wowww. That's mindblowing!"

...

If your barista is geeking out about hardware modifications to their espresso machines, you know the coffee is going to be good.

Every Australian I know who lives overseas misses the cafe culture from there. I spent a couple of years living in West End in Brisbane, and you couldn't move for all the awesome indie coffee joints on Boundary St (having said that, West End was looking a little sketchy last time I was back there).

EDIT: Removed an extraneous word. Turns out I need more coffee.

[liedra]

I'm about to move to London... I'll have to check it out! Also it has a fab name, nowhere else knows what a flat white is, and the cappuccinos they make here in Belgium have fake whipped cream on top! :( :(