West Street Kitchen (Bristol) We thought we should start our News, with a team or James Gourmet “Family” story. If you are reading this as a James Gourmet customer and have been with us for a little while, wherever you are on the planet, you will most likely have met and or tasted coffee roasted […]
Don’t worry this is anything but a “Where to invest money wisely”, but more of a “Don’t leave everything to the kids in the will and buy some nice coffee toys every so often”. If you make a lot of coffee or even just like making coffee a lot, little things can just enhance the […]
We LOVE a happily ever after story, at James’ Gourmet Coffee. Teodora bought some of our coffee in retail packs from Wally’s Delicatessen in Cardiff. She then won “Gold” in her companies “In-House” competition, so Congratulations to Teodora and to the fabulous Contini family, who continue to deliver delicious coffee year after year.
Darjeeling Tea prices Filtering through It is almost a year ago that we heard about the problems in Darjeeling. Here is a brief snippet from our main tea supplier: Tempers cooled in Darjeeling for the Muslim holy day Monday following 12 days of protests by Nepali separatists, some violent. The unrest has caused thousands of […]
Ten years ago (or so) I whisked the first UK K30 off the Mahllkoenig stand, in London, as it was a light bulb for the coffee world. In hindsight, there was so much wrong with it. This K30 grinder was relatively incredible, compared to everything else around. Mazzer Jolly or a K30? K30 or Compak? K30 […]
The commercial coffee world has an addiction to cheap coffee. This is a sensitive subject and not wanting to tell tales out of school (#coffeebitch I hear you cry!) we should look at some facts and wonder. The Peruvian Harvest, conveniently often first arrives at our shores at the end of the year along with […]
I think there are a few of you, who will get this better than others. I am referring to the fact that we have been battling with trying to do the right thing with packaging. We spent the equivalent of a Land Rover (good country measure) on recyclable bags, just over a year ago. The […]
THE MORAL COMPASS OF COFFEE In the trade, we are lucky enough to get snippets of information that are not publicised outside our little world, because It’s just”NOT good for business” to talk about coffee extinction and a future with less coffee because “WE” didn’t want to pay the real price now. When someone gets […]
