another commercial machine we happened to find in a second-hand shop...it was gone the next day.

so we went for a little trip to utrecht the other day and managed to find a few little coffee making machines.

this was a cute old school electric coffee perculator! love the ceramic top on it.

in a simon levelt store, we found this atom-looking stove top perculator (not sure if it was or not)...oh it looked lovely.

we haven't posted in a while because basically, we haven't been out for coffee and have been drinking away with out little stovetop perculator (just a little experiment at the moment- better to have cheap ok tasting coffee than to spend big bucks on bad coffee).

we thought we'd start up a bit of a regular post as they come along of pictures we find of advertised coffees that look...well, really not that apetising.

today's pic features: 80's foam! i guess some people might like 80's dishwasher foam but if a coffee came out looking like this, i wouldnt be too excited.

a theory we have developed over the years is that if a barista/cafe cares about their coffee enough to have good milk and going further, latte art, you have high chances of getting a decent coffee. don't care about milk, don't care about the coffee. not always the case, but mostly. thoughts?

The Square is set in a big, sunny (if you're lucky) courtyard near the Binnenhof. It is a bar with a small lunch menu. The coffee we ordered was not so lekker. Very frothy and bubbly milk that we had to dig through to find the coffee. Luckily it was there, underneath all that bubble. On tasting, it was not the treasure at the bottom we'd hoped for. Quite bitter and burnt. Shame.

In a phrase: probably try the rest of the cafe's around the courtyard before going back.