Well lets not beat around the bush. The French have no bloody clues when it comes to coffee. A cafe au lait is a ghastly milky concoction. The espressos are repulsively bitter and it is possible (seriously) for a cappuccino to come with whipped cream! Geez, what the heck, Italy is just next door. Not sure, maybe it's the French wanting to make their stamp but that stamp should be unstomped. I suggest France sticks with the milk, butter, duck, bread, coq au vin, boeuf bourguignon, tarte flambé, whatever. Coffee in France however,...... SUCKS.
OK so moving forward we knew about French coffee. We bought a shit hot Rocket machine, the same as we have at home. We knew the milk in France was superb (again NZ sorry but like butter, the French also hold the milk cards). And sacrilege to coffee snobs (or aficionados, however they like to identify themselves as) we found some amazing chocolate coffee beans.
Whether it's the beans, the milk or the sweet tap water I don't know but I think it is a combination of all 3. We are lucky in our place to have divine tap drinking water and this is not something I take for granted. It must make a difference. Anyway coffee in our wee French pad is like nothing we've had anywhere. Unreal flat whites, every single time, but I don't make them, Andy is the barista. Ummm BTW I can hear those minds ticking! NO WAY are we coffee snobs, we just know what we like and know it when we get it. Coffee snobs would never ever use chocolate flavoured coffee beans and would use terms like extrusion or some such. No, we just like our good flat whites done to our version of perfection.
OK so moving forward we knew about French coffee. We bought a shit hot Rocket machine, the same as we have at home. We knew the milk in France was superb (again NZ sorry but like butter, the French also hold the milk cards). And sacrilege to coffee snobs (or aficionados, however they like to identify themselves as) we found some amazing chocolate coffee beans.
Whether it's the beans, the milk or the sweet tap water I don't know but I think it is a combination of all 3. We are lucky in our place to have divine tap drinking water and this is not something I take for granted. It must make a difference. Anyway coffee in our wee French pad is like nothing we've had anywhere. Unreal flat whites, every single time, but I don't make them, Andy is the barista. Ummm BTW I can hear those minds ticking! NO WAY are we coffee snobs, we just know what we like and know it when we get it. Coffee snobs would never ever use chocolate flavoured coffee beans and would use terms like extrusion or some such. No, we just like our good flat whites done to our version of perfection.
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