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SUBEN LOS PRECIOS EN STARBUCKS! starbucks-takes-caffeine-high-to-a-whole-new-level

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Ethiopia's Black Gold: Coffee

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Scientist says Jesus appeared on two of his mugs!

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London's best cafés: Lantana café

By Derek Lamberton
Photos by Suzie Blake, courtesy Scrambling Eggs
In or Out? Well, let's start with In. Lantana's success has been unmissable over the past year as its new In and Out signs have added a semblance of order to Charlotte Place's hodgepodge of rotating lunch spots and hairdressers. Lantana In, the original Lantana, is dominated by a verdant mural on the back wall complete with mushrooms and a butterfly -- or maybe it's a moth... Regardless, it's a mural that has certainly anticipated Lantana's ability to not only flourish but to take off as Fitzrovia's café du jour.

Earlier this summer Lantana expanded into its neighboring shop to create its current In and Out club appearance. Out, as you would expect, handles take away; coffee all day, pastries in the morning and sandwiches and an array of salads in the afternoon. Managed by Brooke, whose disposition puts a smile on the face of even the grumpiest early morning customer, Lantana Out is a place you won't really want to leave, which is why I'm usually sitting on the bench out front.

But if you are a person blessed with foresight, Lantana In will suit you just fine. In fact, if you are really organised you will be there for breakfast tomorrow morning. And you'll order the Brioche toast with vanilla poached pears and raspberry ricotta cream. And you will be happy. Even more so once you've finished it off, and expanded your stomach beyond repair, with a velvety flat white. It's especially pleasing when the healthy person sitting across from you has order toasted muesli and a single espresso.

Is there anything Lantana needs to improve? Sure. The seating should be comfier. But the most common complaint I've heard is an inability to deal with its popularity and to get a take-away long black in your hands in a reasonable amount of time. Lantana Out has solved this -- with a little help from the introduction of another independent café, Tapped & Packed, around the corner.

As every week seems to bring with it a new café in the West End, Lantana's competition is stiffening. In spite of this, owner Shelagh Ryan and her friendly, competent staff seem to have entrenched themselves so thoroughly in the London coffee scene that there is little chance that Lantana won't continue to grow.

Website: www.lantanacafe.co.uk
Location: 13 Charlotte Place, W1T 1SN
Hours: Monday - Wednesday 8am - 6pm; Thursday - Friday 8am - 9pm; Saturday 9am - 5pm
Coffee: Lantana is, as far as I know, the only café in the immediate area dedicated to serving Monmouth Coffee (although Monmouth's Covent Garden shop itself isn't more than a fifteen minute walk). So if you're a Monmouth drinker, this is your spot.
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London's best cafés: Kaffeine

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Nervous About Alzheimer's? Coffee May Help

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Low-tech design wins Betacup Challenge

It turns out that the winner of the Starbucks-sponsored Betacup Challenge, a design competition aiming to solve the problem of the billions of disposable coffee cups discarded annually, isn't a cup at all. Rather, it's a chalkboard.

Called "Karma Cup," the jury-selected winning concept envisions a chalkboard at the counter of every Starbucks. Bring a reusable cup for your coffee, and you get to put a check mark on the chalkboard. Every 10 check marks, the next person to come in with a reusable cup gets his or her coffee on the house. "Think of it as one big rewards card for all of us," the design team explained in their entry materials. It's an astonishingly simple and low-tech concept, especially in comparison to some of its Betacup brethren that envisioned inflatable mugs, coffee cups made out of specially-grown coconut hulls, cups with built-in barcodes or LCD screens to show how much they've been used, and elaborate recycling systems built specially for Starbucks cups.

The Karma Cup team will receive $10,000 from Starbucks as a prize; an additional $10,000 will be divided among the five entries that were voted the highest by the community in the online competition. There were also jury-picked runners-up, including the "Champion Cup," which uses a Web tie-in to count how many paper cups (and hence, trees) are being saved through the use of a reusable cup, and the "Band of Honor," a rubber band with a loyalty program barcode built into it that can be transferred from one reusable cup to another.

Starbucks has said that it aims to serve 100 percent of its coffee in recyclable or reusable cups by 2015. As for the Betacup, however, Starbucks is not required to acquire or implement the winning concept.

"We know we can't solve the disposable cup waste issue alone," said Jim Hanna, Starbucks' director of environmental impact, said in a release Thursday that announced the winner. "Consumers can play an important role by sharing creative ideas and spreading the word, as they've done with The Betacup. It's this kind of passion and enthusiasm that will help the reusable cup movement gain real momentum."It turns out that the winner of the Starbucks-sponsored Betacup Challenge, a design... more

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Tea and coffee 'protect against heart disease'

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Savage Sun blows away the windy city

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Coffee 'does not make the brain more alert', study shows

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