This website provides key information on the wonderful world of my local, independent coffee shops. I live in Surbiton (Royal Borough of Kingston, London).

Comparison is near impossible because everywhere serves different coffee drinks.

Different beans are used. Different production methods are used, and customers' moods, requirements and tastes are never identical to those of others.

All coffee shops ask me 'which is your favourite, Patrick?'

Usually, the correct answer is the cafe which I am in at the time! Independent cafes are always the best!


Independent coffee shops are the way forward, for coffee lovers.

If you're rushing your coffee, you are not a coffee lover, you are an addict!

Caffeine is a drug. Drugs can be addictive. Addiction to anything is bad. Appreciation of positive qualities, should always be possible. Therefore, don't become an addict, learn to appreciate quality.

I regard Coffee Shops with up to only a handful of 'brother/sister shops', as 'Independent'. Any larger, and it becomes a chain of shops, throughout which identical coffee is served, and individual powers are lost.

I am a human being. I love this world, recognising that it deserves the utmost respect from us. It offends me when I see those who don't agree. I am a coffee lover, I have NEVER been such a weak addict, consuming coffee on-the-go, littering the globe with paper/plastic coffee cups. Pay due respect to the drink and the Earth. These cups are non-recyclable and ARE NOT HOW COFFEE SHOULD BE DRUNK!

Electric Coffee Company





Simple, effective signage!

Ealing, possibly the furthest north of this blog. West London, not ‘south’ but same latitude to the City centre, so it qualifies for me as within 'my quarter'!





This ECC (Electric Coffee Company), is just that. A company which concentrates on trading coffee from grower to roaster, and this shop provides results directly to the public.
This coffee shop is eight years old, and going strong!


Accessibility is good. The relaxed, wide, open shop, is accessible for my wheelchair. There is a small, stepped-entrance which may prove difficult for some. Staff are quick to help, if needed. My powered-wheelchair generated enough power to easily overcome this small step. It must be stated that the entry is not fully accessible though.





My Americano coffee is made using an ECC blend from El Salvador beans and Brazilian beans. It offers an ever so slight, fruity essence, behind this dark, dark, black coffee taste! I can also feel a slightly smokey coffee.





I order an espresso to check myself, and am told that, contrastingly, this is made using a 'single origin coffee', an El Salvador bean. 
Wow, this espresso is amazing! Bursting with taste, I definitely approve! Very good. One of the best!
Mmmm, unfortunately, my description will not do it justice. Single origin, yet it feels a complex aftertaste! Wow. 


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