Today, I got my free coffee on my coffee card for my favorite haunt in London, The Department of Coffee and Social affairs, and am sitting here until they kick me out. I have just had 3 flat whites (expresso + microfoam, the stuff on the bottom of steamed milk), not ready to acknowledge that these will be my last Dept of Coffee flat whites for a very long time. I can’t even describe to you how velvety and perfect these flat whites are. When I first came here in January, they had just opened, and their walls were bare and no light came in through the large windows because that’s London before March for ya, but now, there are translucent, colorful circle designs on the top of the large windows, which filter the light into the shop so it is slightly tinted pink in some areas, and there are the paintings from the picture above hanging on the walls. They really blast the music here—stuff like Al Green, Death Cab’s Transatlanticism, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan’s greatest hits, and now some new stuff that I think may be Jay-Z—and I love that about it because your taste buds are going wow and so are your eardrums. I will venture into the land of cheese and say that this place is doubly special to me because I feel like I have grown as a person since being here in London, like DoCaSa and certainly with it. And then you can’t credit me fully for the cheesiness of that because I am on a major caffeine high and never ever ever wanna come down evaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!

Today, I got my free coffee on my coffee card for my favorite haunt in London, The Department of Coffee and Social affairs, and am sitting here until they kick me out. I have just had 3 flat whites (expresso + microfoam, the stuff on the bottom of steamed milk), not ready to acknowledge that these will be my last Dept of Coffee flat whites for a very long time. I can’t even describe to you how velvety and perfect these flat whites are. When I first came here in January, they had just opened, and their walls were bare and no light came in through the large windows because that’s London before March for ya, but now, there are translucent, colorful circle designs on the top of the large windows, which filter the light into the shop so it is slightly tinted pink in some areas, and there are the paintings from the picture above hanging on the walls. They really blast the music here—stuff like Al Green, Death Cab’s Transatlanticism, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan’s greatest hits, and now some new stuff that I think may be Jay-Z—and I love that about it because your taste buds are going wow and so are your eardrums. I will venture into the land of cheese and say that this place is doubly special to me because I feel like I have grown as a person since being here in London, like DoCaSa and certainly with it. And then you can’t credit me fully for the cheesiness of that because I am on a major caffeine high and never ever ever wanna come down evaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!