The coffee servings at Costa Coffee are enormous. The smallest size (primo) is actually rather large, the medium is more of a soup bowl than a mug, while the large is like drinking a bucket of caffeine.
Costa Coffee is a busy, loud cafe plonked in the middle of the White Water Shopping Centre. As I prefer to give my custom to smaller local cafes, I only come here when I can't make it outside and I need to recharge the energy levels between bursts of extreme shopping.
On these occasions, I peruse the paper, take out the knitting or simply stick in the iPod and watch the clientele gesture dramatically as they silently converse.
I recently treated myself to a lemon cupcake here, which was divine and so pretty I had to take a picture of it.
My only criticism is that the baristas always ask, "Medium or large?" and I have to quickly remember how to say "small" in Costa-speak.
I know their game. They want you to have to pay more for the larger cups and you leave a jittery mess ready to shop away all that extra caffeine-induced energy. In fact, Costa Coffee is probably in cahoots with H&M and HMV and all the other acronymed shopping chains that surround it.
Or maybe I'm just paranoid after the vessel of caffeine I've ingested... read more