Starbucks, Chelmsford

Starbucks Coffee I'm not a coffee person. Tea I could drink by the gallon, but coffee? Coffee seems to be reserved for use after a particularly long night with no sleep. Offer to take me to Starbucks though, and I'll be your best friend for life. My other half is a Costa fan, quite happy to sit in Costa working her way through every single cup of coffee every thought of. My personal opinion is that Costa don't do good coffee, and when they changed the bread used in their toasted sandwiches about a year ago, they lost any incentive for me to go in there. No more coffee shops for me, I thought ... more

In Chelmsford, I never thought we would be trendy enough to have our own Stabucks, but it looks like I was so wrong. Located in the old Dorothy Perkins Shop premises, this trendy corner coffee shop seems to be brimming with business. I think Coffee shops have become very "vogue" over the last few years. They used to be frowned at by most saturday shoppers in favour of McDonalds or Burger King but now they are all the rage. I think a lot has to do with the trendy USA sit coms that feature them heavily such as Friends and even films that made the StarBucks name big in Austin Powers 2. So what do ... more