Coffee, hot and iced

Sixteen hot drinks, starting at an espresso and running through macchiato, americano, cortado and flat white: the standard range done properly, at prices that have not been rounded up for the sake of it. What most cafes near here do not have is the other half of the list, and it is the reason a lot of our regulars first came in.

Turkish and Syrian coffee

Turkish coffee is not espresso in a small cup. It is ground far finer, brewed with the water rather than through it, and served with the grounds settled at the bottom, which is why it takes longer and why it is worth waiting for. We make it the traditional way. Let the cup sit for a moment so the grounds settle, and stop before the bottom. Order it with a plate of lady fingers or warbat and you have the standard afternoon across most of the Levant. Alongside it are Syrian tea, minty tea, green tea, cardamom green tea and yansoon, the aniseed tea that is the thing to drink late in the evening.

The espresso side

Espresso, macchiato, americano, cortado, flat white, cappuccino, latte and mocha, made from the same espresso rather than a batch. The Spanish Latte is espresso with sweetened condensed milk as well as steamed milk, richer and sweeter than a standard latte, and available iced. Hot chocolate is on the list for anyone not drinking coffee. Ask when you order and we will tell you which milk alternatives we have that day.

Iced

Nine iced drinks, from an iced americano up to the iced Spanish latte and the iced matcha latte, plus iced mocha, brown sugar espresso, and three iced green teas in blue, kiwi and peach. All are built on the same espresso as the hot list rather than a pre-brewed batch sitting in a fridge. The iced Spanish latte is the one worth ordering if you have not had one: condensed milk, espresso and ice, sweet enough to count as dessert on its own. The matcha is whisked rather than poured from a sweetened bottle. Most hot drinks can be made iced; ask.

Coffee on its own

Plenty of people come in for the coffee and nothing else. The room is quiet in the afternoon, and a Turkish coffee with something from the sweets tray is a reasonable way to spend an hour. Prices for everything hot and iced are on the menu below.