Evolution Dictates…

That if there is a deep coffee cup there will be, somewhere, a spoon long enough to stir it with.  

So much for enjoying food and drink more.  Today my Sister and Nephew took me for a coffee and as they were buying, it would be rude to object to there choice of cafe. So I was slightly dissapointed to find myself queing between one of the buggie brigade, her noisy baby shaking a set of Range Rover keys as a improvised rattle and a generic looking man tapping a laptop case in the new social epicentre of Ilkley, a brand spanking new Costa Coffee.

  

I can only presume that a member of staff was alomost caught smoking under the new smoking ban and managed to discard the offending cigarette into my coffee before serving it to me.  Though to be honest I am quite happy to drink bad coffee aslong as I am not paying too much, luckily my sister was buying so I had no room to complain. It is Costa’s  lack of personality that depresses me. I am quite confident it was delivered into an empty store in a box no bigger than a shoe, with instructions to “open and stand back”. In a flash of cheap art prints and laminated floors Costa Coffee filled the store along with a army of staff. Seconds later a woman walks past, slowly blinks and without even considering if she would like a drink,walks in and orders , ten minutes later the store is full and no one remembers what was there before.  

I don’t intend to drink there again.   

If you want to go to a bloody good cafe, have some good homemade cake, with friendly staff and good prices.  Then visit this beauty in Ingleton… http://www.inglesportcafe.co.uk/

~ by liamkirkham on August 31, 2007.