'Sit Long, Talk Much, Laugh Often'

This blog is about four close friends and our summer expeditions to find the best coffee shops around Somerset. It started out due to the realisation that we spent too much time sitting in Marks kitchen drinking tea and coffee, the four of us have spent the last three years hanging out together using Marks kitchen as a kind of cafe location.


As you can probably tell we are not your usual students, and enjoy the social aspect of sitting enjoying hot drinks and chatting away. This is where the idea came from, why not venture out of the kitchen and go on road trips round Somerset and nearby places to find the best coffee places there are based on the price, the drink itself, the atmosphere, and design and the customer service that they had provided.

We have chosen to visit independent coffee places or small chains rather than the well known coffee shop chains such as Starbucks and Costa Coffee that most people rely on due to the fact that they can continuously reproduce the same cup of coffee across the globe. We are guilty of sticking to these chains on a day to day basis, Starbucks is my downfall. We are not looking for the most affordable and available coffee, but the best taste, the best place, the best community and surrounding area, the best service and the best moment.

Hopefully we can inform people of more local independent cafes to try, breaking the trend of the big well known chains.