Forget Starbucks. Since I have plenty of choices here, I refuse to go near one. I didn't bother with fancy coffee joints either. Let me introduce my favorite coffee joint in downtown Sydney.
Opposite the Sydney Law School and round the back of NSW Supreme Court at Philip Street and the adjacent St James Church and an exit of the St James train station, the stand is simply named 'Coffee At St James Church'.
The stand uses beans from Toby's Estate. It's honestly not as good as Monmouth Coffee, but the flat white (no sugar) is a very decent brew that is thick and aromatic. We can't quite find many of the same standard around downtown Sydney. Oh, that piece of pistachio biscotti which comes with each cup must be one of the better ones I've had so far. YUMMZZZ.
It's really quite lovely to sit and have a cuppa with the friends over an early morning chat session. The 2 baristas are seriously funny and cute! I can't get how they can be so cheerful in the mornings when none of us are quite awake till the first rush of caffeine.
After all that conversation, we found out that 1 of the baristas is off to a trip to Southeast Asia very soon! So perhaps we might see him in Singapore then! However, we warned him about the pathetic state of coffee in our city. We told him to bring his own coffee beans. :p
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sigh... my nose is blocked and so i cannot smell my coffee but can surely taste its bitterness.
sucks!
poor kikare. a coffee without it's aroma is just a coffee not worth having.. :(
Imp, I wish you could courier that cuppa to me. :)
may i tuck this here, the ben folds falling off, at the very finale. you can delete it after since it's not for this post. :P
ben folds
kikare: ARRRGH. allergy? cold? make that blocked nose go away! otherwise, everything is tasteless and your ears feel funny.
jomel: :(
tuti: thanks! i'll go look!
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