Free Coffee

[Jocky]

the Turkish convenient store across from Franco Manca's on Lordship Lane is giving out free coffees until Sunday if you are passing by. This has been going on all week but I only found out today so feel free to spread the word.

[oilworker]

Should be tea (cay) really. Coffee drinking is virtually unknown in Turkey.

[JohnL]

Is this the type with the grinds in ?

[Michael Palaeologus]

Greek coffee?

Wars have started over such things.

[DulwichFox]

oilworker Wrote:

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> Should be tea (cay) really. Coffee drinking is

> virtually unknown in Turkey.

That is not at all true.. True Tea (Cay) is drunk by locals ..

Turkish Coffee T?rk kahvesi is widely drunk across Turkey and is a right ceremonial thing too.

And usually very sweet and the grinds are allowed to settle at the bottom of the cup

Turkish Coffee Grinder

http://www.tulumba.com/mmTULUMBA/Images/HO380511KX998_250.jpg

Available all over Turkey and not just as Tourist gifts..

DulwichFox

[Seabag]

Turkish coffee = heatburn central

Phhhhakkk...they can keep their 'free' muddy water

[DulwichFox]

There are alternatives Nescafe have several Turkish varieties which may be more palatable too some.

Just don't ask for a Greek Coffee in Turkey. It's a big insult.

DulwichFox

[Help-Ma-Boab]

A Turkish coffee in parts of Cyprus doesn't go down too well either.

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> There are alternatives Nescafe have several

> Turkish varieties which may be more palatable too

> some.

>

> Just don't ask for a Greek Coffee in Turkey.

> It's a big insult.

>

> DulwichFox

[pablogrande]

it isn't turkish coffee they are selling there, it's just an automated coffee machine selling latte, americano etc. we tried it and it wasn't that great to be honest even by machine standards it was very weak.

on the plus side this is the first time i've been in this shop in a long time, i really liked the previous owners and they always had good quality and interesting bits in there, but the new people seem to have ramped it all up a notch, theres a great selection of pastry/turkish bread type things in there and a lot of nice fruit and veg.

[keekybreeks]

Cant comment on teh coffee, but have been going to Andreas's for a long long time. Even though its not actually called that anymore, or has been for a while. its the rare of example of a LL business actually flogging decent stuff . as opposed to utter shite.

[Seabag]

I like the shop

Hasn't the guy from Forest hill supermarket taken it on

[DulwichFox]

keekybreeks Wrote:

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> Cant comment on teh coffee, but have been going to

> Andreas's for a long long time. Even though its

> not actually called that anymore, or has been for

> a while. its the rare of example of a LL business

> actually flogging decent stuff . as opposed to

> utter shite.

When it was Andreas's it was a Greek shop and was owned by relatives of a guy I used to work with in Telecoms.

It is a great place and is indeed a rare example of a LL business actually flogging decent stuff.

Very helpful and friendly and unpretentious.

DulwichFox

P.S. Bet no one comments on Foxy being positive.

[pablogrande]

To be fair Foxy, there's a lot of places on LL flogging decent stuff food wise but it's mainly on the mid-upper scale price wise i think we are pretty lucky with range, if only we had a decent asian supermarket like the one in Peckham i'd be happy. Non-food wise i never shop in LL

[Jah Lush]

Seabag Wrote:

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> I like the shop

>

> Hasn't the guy from Forest hill supermarket taken

> it on.

Yep! I believe so. I love that 'supermarket'.

[Sue]

pablogrande Wrote:

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the new people

> seem to have ramped it all up a notch, theres a

> great selection of pastry/turkish bread type

> things in there and a lot of nice fruit and veg.

Yes I agree, I hadn't been in there for ages but I went in recently and was really impressed by the good selection of stuff they had.