When it comes to caffeine, it turns out that York is full of beans.
In a new list of Britain’s 30 best coffee shops, the city scored not just one but two slots.
By our calculations, that means York has more than six per cent of the UK’s finest suppliers of espresso, latte and cappuccino. Not bad for a small historic city.
The list was compiled by Chloe Callow, editor of Caffeine magazine, and published in the Telegraph.
So which are the top two brews?
Harlequin/The Attic
You get two bites of the bean for the price of one when it comes to the café on King’s Square.
It has been pouring out quality coffees for years: in 2011 The Attic won the Beverage Standards Association award for best espresso in the UK – and was one of only six venues in the entire country to get organisation’s top rating.
What Chloe says:
Spring Espresso
It got to the point that, unless you timed it perfectly, you couldn’t get a seat in Spring Espresso, so popular was the Fossgate coffee shop.
So last year owner Steve Dyson opened a second outlet, on Lendal.
They are the only place you can get Square Mile coffee in York, an exclusive brand created by the UK’s first world barista champion and world coffee guru James Hoffman.
What Chloe says:
Oh, and if you want to stray a little further afield, the Bean and Bud in Harrogate also makes the list…