I'm addicted to Blue Mountain which costs a fortune (£24 for 250 gms).

So today I bought Mocha (£4 for 250 gms). It tastes exactly the same!

I'm a Kenco fan, and I'm on DeCaf at the moment because I drink far too much.

Senseo Java is the bees knees.

JK2006 wrote:
I'm addicted to Blue Mountain which costs a fortune (£24 for 250 gms).

So today I bought Mocha (£4 for 250 gms). It tastes exactly the same!

We have an amazing coffee place in my home city (Lincoln) and pay slightly less for each of their blends. Although we used to see paying £3 a go for 250gms a major treat, not so much nowadays though!

steveimp wrote:

We have an amazing coffee place in my home city (Lincoln) and pay slightly less for each of their blends. Although we used to see paying £3 a go for 250gms a major treat, not so much nowadays though!

That wouldn't be Imperial Teas on Steep Hill would it? You can keep your coffee (I loathe the stuff) but it's selection of rare teas is second to none, as is I suspect, it's coffee. Great little place!

Elliott Peters wrote:
steveimp wrote:

We have an amazing coffee place in my home city (Lincoln) and pay slightly less for each of their blends. Although we used to see paying £3 a go for 250gms a major treat, not so much nowadays though!

That wouldn't be Imperial Teas on Steep Hill would it? You can keep your coffee (I loathe the stuff) but it's selection of rare teas is second to none, as is I suspect, it's coffee. Great little place!

No, it's actually the little coffee shop called Stokes on High Bridge on the High Street.

Imperial I haven't tried simply because I refuse a walk up Steep Hill just for coffee!!

Steep Hill! They're not lying, are they? I worked in Lincoln for a week, staying at the hotel at the top of the hill near the cathedral. Steep isn't the word. How I managed to survive the week without suffering a heart attack, I'll never know. I didn't frequent the coffee/tea shop though.

steveimp wrote:

No, it's actually the little coffee shop called Stokes on High Bridge on the High Street.

Imperial I haven't tried simply because I refuse a walk up Steep Hill just for coffee!!

Ah yes... I know the place! Imperial isn't on the worst bit of Steep Hill. Enter from the North and it's on the first bit that goes downhill which isn't that steep. It's beyond that you hit the worst bit! It never used to bother me... would go up and down it regularly in my teens and twenties, but last year when I returned to Lincoln after several years absence, I struggled! A nuisance too since there's a really good bookshop smack in the middle of it!

Goodness me - over 800 views to this silly thread and several posters appear intimately acquainted with Lincoln (where I don't think I've ever been in my life - something I must correct).

Elliott Peters wrote:
steveimp wrote:

No, it's actually the little coffee shop called Stokes on High Bridge on the High Street.

Imperial I haven't tried simply because I refuse a walk up Steep Hill just for coffee!!

Ah yes... I know the place! Imperial isn't on the worst bit of Steep Hill. Enter from the North and it's on the first bit that goes downhill which isn't that steep. It's beyond that you hit the worst bit! It never used to bother me... would go up and down it regularly in my teens and twenties, but last year when I returned to Lincoln after several years absence, I struggled! A nuisance too since there's a really good bookshop smack in the middle of it!

Readers Rest is amazing, proved a Godsend to me during both my college and University days.

I would walk up and down Charing Cross Road looking for text books for weeks, return to Lincoln and find exactly what I wanted (and the right edition too!) in the Readers Rest. And for comparatively a lot cheaper too.

JK2006 wrote:
Goodness me - over 800 views to this silly thread and several posters appear intimately acquainted with Lincoln (where I don't think I've ever been in my life - something I must correct).

White Hart Hotel just behind the Cathedral is the place to stay in Lincoln and nearby is the lovely Browns Pie Shop where a friend and I saw Gwyneth Paltrow walk out of when she was filming in the city.

The views are tremendous - for a county they say is flat, this proves the rule that the top end of Lincolnshire certainly is not!

I have never been to Lincoln.

Seems many on here are associated with the place !!!