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!

The French Tarte (Surbiton)




The daughters of the famous, award-winning 'The French Table' restaurant (Surbiton), the two cafes do not let standards drop.  Both named 'The French Tarte', the TFT acronym can be used throughout.
Accessibility is supreme. A ramp is required for wheelchair entry, which is available. The Surbiton cafe is one of the two independent coffee shops reviewed here, with an accessible toilet. Thank you.
(Teddington Branch)





As expected, food is phenomenal. Accompanying coffee is warm, soft and is very easy to drink! One may think that, as all food is incredible, then the coffee would 'let the side down'. It would be very harsh to say such. In fact the coffee is a good, quality drink, sufficing alone (without the food).


I have forever been a lover of this place (since moving nearby, in Surbiton, in 2010). I am pleased to confirm that in no way have standards dropped at all, from their supremely high standards when I discovered it!

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