It seems that cafes have taken over other meetings places as a safe haven for conversation and first dates for friends or potential love. Even sitting with a book and having a latte and cake is acceptable when on your own. And yet, we could stay home with wonderful machines and capsules or using coffee grinders to taste tantalising flavours hinting of different countries and climates but we choose to find our favourite caffeine spot. Cafes were originally seen as seedy dens of iniquity where outcasts, philosophers, artists and renegades met to discuss their ideas and to pass on key information. Perhaps that is still the case! Many of us have laughed, cried, complained and debated, or let’s be honest, argued, in various places. Some have taken it to another level with twists of cinnamon, dashes of vanilla and a whole range of milks to choose from and yet, it is is that first cup that offers as sense of another day, another dawn.
