Well, I’m not surprised. They do make a superior brew, and staff in the Aberystwyth Costa coffee shop are always friendly. I think that the Mecca had the edge, but unfortunately that closed down. The coffee and the owner in the Mecca were really nice.
I tried my hand at the Orangery for a long time and even took Princess Patricia along to indulge in their drinks and ice cream, while she was visiting Michael. It was a favourite of my African friend Michael and me. Anyway, things for me tapered off with the old Orangery and I tried my hand with Costa just as the old Orangery closed down. I deliberately differentiate between the old Orangery and the new one with the same name. I like Costa like I used to like Starbucks. The coffee is reliable and the people are friendly. I went to my first Costa in Egham, when my eldest was an undergraduate at Royal Holloway University College of London. The coffee was consistently good there as well. Consistency is sometimes important, but we must be mindful that sometimes it can mean consistently bad or to a consistently mediocre standard. But in Costa Aberystwyth the coffee is consistently good and staff are consistently friendly. Well done to the Manager, I say. Bravo, bravo.
Now the coffee in Africa was OK as well. Nescafe coffee granules contained in a small tin with a resealed lid. Very expensive compared to wages, but it’s worth spending out for a good cup of coffee. I remember liquid Camp Coffee when I was younger, and have had some terrible cups of coffee throughout my life. Bitter, burnt, cold, and tasteless: these are some of the terms that come to mind. Not that any of these terms apply to Camp Coffee if it’s still going. It’s just that for a quick brew Nescafe stands head and shoulders above the rest. Now as you can see, I like Nescafe a lot, but not as much as Costa.
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