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La Boca and professionalism

( Misc and Reviews and Coffee )

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I visited the restaurant La Boca in central Belfast yesterday and was extremely impressed. The airy, brightly-coloured casual restaurant had a small menu but excellent food and at a splendid price. Maybe I've been in Dublin too long but I was astounded by the price: £10 for a starter and main course. However, […]

Filter brewing: improved with duct tape

( Coffee )

Dave Walsh, in his article about the Abid Clever, highlighted a problem I had with the theory of filter coffee: the variables you want to be directly proportional to one another (contact time and grind size) turn out to be inversely proportional.
I wanted to try a filter brew of Has Bean’s El Salvador Pacamara but […]

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