TCB finds the 'Holy Grail of Coffee'
From a list of 13 unique coffee shops and roasteries in the world, Truth's steampunk-inspired artisan coffee shop - a warehouse filled from top to bottom with metal piping and quirky, old machinery – beat out the rest to claim top title.
The other global coffee shops listed by The Telegraph are:
1. Truth Coffee Roasting, Cape Town, SA
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2. Coffee Academics, Hong Kong
3. Barista Parlor, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
4. La Cafeotheque, Paris, France
5. Cafe Central, Austria, Vienna
6. Johan & Nyström, Stockholm, Sweden
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7. Department of Caffeine, Singapore
8. Single Origin Roasters, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
9. Sant'Eustachio Il Caffè, Rome, Italy
10. Workshop Coffee, London
11. Double Tall, Tokyo, Japan
12. Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Portland, US
13. Fazil Bey, Istanbul, Turkey
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For those who are not aware of this, each and every member of The Complimentary Breakfast team is a coffee addict. Presenting the team with a list of places where the best of the best fixes from around the world could be found left a hole that only a good cup of coffee could fill… Show producer Doepie went on a quest to fill the gap phoned some of the top baristas, both locally and abroad, to find “The Complimentary Breakfast Holy Grail of Coffee.”
This is the secret:
- Use fresh beans, preferably Ethiopian.
- Make sure the beans are ground right before you use them.
- When brewing coffee at home, use a plunger.
- For maximum flavour, use a coarser grind on your beans.
- Add ground coffee to plunger.
- Add warm but not boiling water to your coffee, around 82-85 degrees Celsius.
- Leave your coffee to brew for 4 minutes.
- Slowly push your plunger down to the bottom.
- Use a spoon to scoop off the crema at the top of the coffee.
- Stir slowly
- Pour and enjoy.
According to The Complimentary Breakfast listeners, their idea of a perfect cup of coffee is:
Dominique Hurter “Any cup of Douwe Egberts Kenya coffee – it’s perfect!”
Jackobus Gouws “Any cup of Coffee as long as my beauty full wife makes it for me.”
Nadine Myburgh “BP Express Tom Jones coffee.”
Mari JvVuuren Breytenbach “Melk koffie bly die lekkerste!”
Thanks to the following coffee shops for chatting to us and pointing us in the right direction to the perfect pot:
Truth Coffee Roasting owner David Donde (Cape Town, SA)
Robby from Beaver Creek Coffee Estate (Port Edward, SA)
Kobus Wiese of Wiesenhof Coffee (SA)
James Bailey from Workshop Coffee Co (London, UK)
Ethan Hill from Victrola Coffee Roasters (Seattle, Washington, USA)