Harry’s Bar - Venice

Posted on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 | No Comments

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The story goes that a talented Venecian bartender named Giuseppe Cipriani helped out a chap called Harry from Boston with some sticky money issues (borught about by his drinking habit). A couple of years later Harry returned to Venice much better off and paid back Cipriani five times what he borrowed telling him to set up a bar and call it ‘Harry’s’.

Starbucks buys Clover (…all of them)

Posted on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | 2 Comments

That’s not ‘Starbucks have purchased a Clover‘, no no no, they’ve just jumped straight in there and bought Clovers entire parent company, The Coffee Equipment Company.

For anyone unfamiliar with Clover, it is a coffee brewing system that has been hailed as the next big thing in brewed coffee due to its stability and customisable temperature, water and brew settings. Yes, that’s right, Starbucks now own it. [...]

Siberian Ice Bar Video

Posted on Friday, February 1st, 2008 | No Comments

If you fancy ‘chilling out’ somewhere *ice you could do a lot worse than this Siberian ice bar. It looks pretty cool to me and a little more functional than the yearly ‘Absolut ice bar’ in Lapland. Best move like a blizzard though, the bar will be snow more in only 60 days.
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Origin Coffee Cups

Posted on Sunday, August 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Perhaps the sexiest coffee cup on the planet, here is the Origin Coffee cup exclusively for Fifteen Cornwall - art by Ross Imms at A-Side.

The above picture is the espresso but I also have a 5 1/2oz cappuccino, the cappuccino is quite small so it tests your latte art (pics to come soon). I’ve had [...]