Visited London? Did you know no matter what expensive West End hotel you stay in the coffee is reheated?

its no secret, freely admitted by staff that the coffee is simply microwaved in the cafitiere and used again and again


maybe its the same in ManhattenVisited London? Did you know no matter what expensive West End hotel you stay in the coffee is reheated?
Well, most cafetieres have metal components which would spark badly in a microwave, so the whole jug is not likely to be put in. The coffee is probably filtered in a commercial machine and then left sitting on one of two hotplates until used. These hotplates might not be hot enough, so the staff give it a few minutes in the 'wave.





If in doubt ask for fresh coffee, or ask if it is filtered at all. It may be instant, put into a jug with hot water. Check to see if they have a proper coffee machine -a Gaggia or similar. These babies are so big you can see them from the street.





As someone who has stayed in many hotels in London and elsewhere, both in the UK and worldwide, I am afraid that your statement is a sweeping generaisation and is incorrect.





Sorry to disappoint you tourists who think the best of everything is in your home country, but there are some very high quality restaurants and hotels in London and the rest of the UK. Unfortunately there are some poor ones too, and the price and exterior of the establishment bears no relation to the quality of service or product you will receive.





The pressures to employ cheap labour from other countries can mean that you get the standards those people expect. No disrespect to them but, if the coffee is rotten in Albania, your Albanian waiter probably doesn't see what the fuss is about. He's getting minimum wage for a fifteen hour day and sending as much home to his wife as possible. (He probably drinks Turkish coffe from an ibrik and wonders why we like weak dish water!)





I lived in a hotel off Bedford Square for three weeks in 1985 and never ate there if I could help it. I once, at breakfast, had scrambled eggs with little bits of kipper through it, which flavoured the whole plate -yeuch! Down the road was a tiny cafe run by two Italians who would make me fresh coffee and toast while I sat and read the paper. They had no cooker but would scramble eggs with butter in a pot using the steam nozzle on their coffee maker -yummy!





I once walked out of a ';big West End hotel'; on Great Russell Street because I found cockroaches in my bathroom. The room was awful too, but the reception was very plush and grand. I decided that, if the 'roaches were in my first floor room, they were in the kitchen too!





There are however plenty of good staff and well run hotels which care about the service they give. The New Barbican Hotel on Central Street used to be one such. The Tower hotel at Tower Bridge had mainly good staff too, although I did once spend ten minutes trying to convince the receptionist that being Scottish didn't mean that I had to hand over my passport!





Costa Coffee and Starbucks are all over the place now, but Pizza Express do good coffee. MacDonalds in the UK used to do good stuff, but now use a dispensing machine which isn't so nice. I would like to be able to make a generalisation like ';all Italian restraurants are good'; or something similar, but I well remember at least one which was awful, despite the majority being excellent.





Round theatre land they cater for repeat customers, so might be expected to have decent standards.Visited London? Did you know no matter what expensive West End hotel you stay in the coffee is reheated?
hmm. i had some coffee in a five star hotel today, tho not in london and it was lousy.same the world over?they very kindly changed it and brought me some fresher stuff ,no doubt after having added some embellishments of their own.
It麓s a matter of fact, that normally coffee isn麓t feshly brewed from fresh beans in London (and the States). Even the self-made-coffee in the room is better than the one in the restaurant of the most hotels. But nevertheless there are many good coffee shops all around, which couldn麓t exist without the bad coffee in the hotels ;-)