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...An ode to Mumbai’s Parsee community and its slowly fading Irani cafés, the butter-laden bun is designed to be dunked in chai....
...Roses bloom from shop doorways, ivy festoons restaurant patios and pot plants nudge out from café corners. A fairy-tale land, one of eternal summer. Looks great on Instagram....
...The aroma of the roasting beans and brewing coffee is incredible....
...There are tri- and bi-varietal blends too, with modulated aromas and flavour notes: grass, arugula, black pepper, green tomatoes. The mill is a stunning modern stone-and-glass building....
...Dom’s Subs newest City location, in Ludgate Circus, and one of the smallest cafés on this list, opened only a few months ago after its tenancy at Bevis Marks ended....
...At Café Unido, I tasted a washed Geisha made with beans from Elida Estate that had aromas of jasmine, maple and fragrant tea, as well as a “natural” Geisha from Don Pachi estate (made from beans that have...
...Petite Pilsner, a low-alcohol German-style lager, and Faculty’s most popular brew (and a personal favourite) called the Shower Beer (165), a light, easy-drinking dry-hazy pale ale with a lovely, fruity aroma...
...The tiny restaurant will make you feel as if you are in Tokyo, especially when you are met with a waft of the distinctive aroma of sushi rice as you enter....
...have a unique olfactory fingerprint: “The differences between people’s sense of smell are such that it’s potentially possible to identify every person alive by collecting their responses to 34 distinct aromas...
...He discovered bags were actually better for the product than glass: they keep out light and oxygen to “protect our aromas and freshness”. They’re potentially better for the planet too....
...Fat hessian sacks of cacao beans squat amid the aroma of freshly tempered chocolate and beside an array of baked goods....
...Eight years ago, French theatre director Cyril Teste and perfumer Francis Kurkdjian arranged a rendezvous at a café in Paris....
...Workers on construction sites and truck drivers at motorway cafés often eat more healthy vegetables than some middle-class families do in London....
...So there’s hope and defiance mixed in with the aromas of finely seasoned gingerbread and hot spiced wine this year, hope that Christmas — and the Christmas city — can be saved....
...“In the beginning was a scent,” writes Karl Schlögel — a “somewhat sweet, heavy aroma” that once filled the air on festive occasions in Moscow....
...A WeWork building — with its meditation rooms, pool tables, vegan food stalls and aroma of small-batch coffees — could make insecure freelancers feel like they were on a Google campus....
...It’s shaken and served in a chilled cocktail glass and finished with a grapefruit twist for a citrus-rind aroma. It’s fresh, fun and hopeful — exactly what we need after the pandemic....
...Decor is très Empereur: dark walls are hung with vintage tools; the bathtub is zinc and wood; and a pleasant aroma of linseed oil and Marseille soap infuses the air....
...“It was the aroma of thyme, crushed beneath the wheels of the car,” Antonio sighed. “It always brings me back to that moment, when I first saw the old house at San Martino....
...Grove , by Esther Kinsky, translated by Caroline Schmidt, Fitzcarraldo Editions, RRP£12.99, 280 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café....
...A top note of hand sanitiser cut through the aroma of freshly ground coffee beans, but this did not spoil my enjoyment....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I would open a café....
...Although perhaps there are a few remaining non-vegans who love the leathery aroma of a python bag....
...I began in Casablanca, where the francophone atmosphere is as pungent as the lingering whiff of Gauloises on its café terraces....
...— Hyderabad wouldn’t have its charm without its Irani cafés dotted around the city. My pick is Café Niloufer in Bapu Nagar for its cult Irani chai and biscuits....
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