The success of Starbucks, Costa and Caffè Nero in recent years underlines perhaps more than anything Britain’s ignorance as a coffee appreciative nation and football fans forced to once again imbibe another watery latte at staging posts along our motorways and railways lines will count this as yet another among a host of less than satisfying aspects of the away trip. Service station architecture may have been eulogised in some quarters but Tebay services’ scooping of an Egon Ronay's British Academy of Gastronomes' Grand Prix award in 2009 is the exception rather than a rule. Herded like cattle into these box like...
The success of Starbucks, Costa and Caffè Nero in recent years underlines perhaps more than anything Britain’s ignorance as a coffee appreciative nation and football fans forced to once again imbibe another watery latte at staging posts along our motorways and railways lines will count this as yet another among a host of less than satisfying aspects of the away trip. Service station architecture may have been eulogised in some quarters but Tebay services’ scooping of an Egon Ronay's British Academy of Gastronomes' Grand Prix award in 2009 is the exception rather than a rule. Herded like cattle into these box like...
