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Old Sep 1st 2013, 9:28 am
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I've just received an aero press coffee maker courtesy of shop and ship and am looking for good fresh coffee.

Does anyone know where I can get fresh ground coffee, preferably bloody good coffee? (starbucks does NOT count as a valid answer)
or even fresh beans that I can grind myself.

For those interested and since there was a thread a wee while ago about nespresso machines etc.

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This thing is awesome, dead simple and very very quick with bugger all clean up and rubbish to dispose of. Oh and its make a stellar cup of coffee.
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probably Galleries Lafayette food bit at Dubai Mall
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Originally Posted by shiva
IOh and its make a stellar cup of coffee.
Assuming you can get the beans...
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Originally Posted by saudiflares
probably Galleries Lafayette food bit at Dubai Mall
that was on my list as first place to try
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Gwilym's a pro...we're all amatuers!
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Originally Posted by Millhouse
Assuming you can get the beans...
true, had some not bad java left in the freezer thats made a pretty damn good cup, certainly better than the same stuff did in a french press
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Originally Posted by saudiflares
Gwilym's a pro...we're all amatuers!
That may the case, but his roof terrace could do with a lick of paint.
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Default Re: Where can I get fresh coffee?

I've got an Aeropress too. I felt quite a sense of achievement when we finally got through the original set of filters.

Sadly the top of the plunger broke a few weeks ago but it still works, ish.
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I've got an Aeropress too. I felt quite a sense of achievement when we finally got through the original set of filters.

Sadly the top of the plunger broke a few weeks ago but it still works, ish.
How the hell did you manage that. Thing feels pretty solid
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Raw coffee in Dubai Garden Centre. Good stuff if pricey or for a really good price, check out the coffee in M&S. I get most of mine from there and I'm fussy about my coffee,
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Originally Posted by shiva
How the hell did you manage that. Thing feels pretty solid
If you think of the plunger as looking like a letter T, where the top bar of the T is what you push down on, this is the bit that snapped off. It's glued to the main tube of the plunger and eventually it snapped off.
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I got some coffee beans from Nofara Cafe in JLT, I gave them away but at least I remembered where I got them. Not a huge coffee drinker either but I am with Meow try MnS. When we had a filter system we used Lavazza.
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Default Re: Where can I get fresh coffee?

Originally Posted by Meow
Raw coffee in Dubai Garden Centre. Good stuff if pricey or for a really good price, check out the coffee in M&S. I get most of mine from there and I'm fussy about my coffee,
Why not just drive 2 streets behind there and visit the Raw coffee shop itself?
http://rawcoffeecompany.com/pages/contact
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Originally Posted by Bongoman2
Why not just drive 2 streets behind there and visit the Raw coffee shop itself?
http://rawcoffeecompany.com/pages/contact
Probabaly because most people don't know it's there...
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Originally Posted by Bongoman2
Why not just drive 2 streets behind there and visit the Raw coffee shop itself?
http://rawcoffeecompany.com/pages/contact
Exactly what I was after thank you

So much fir us being a useless bunch who never help out
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