Dose

Delightful cup of coffee with good service. The espresso blend is fruity and packs a punch. The breakfast items look tasty and affordable too, but I’m yet to try myself. My only qualm is that they cheekily charge 20p if you pay by card, even if its contact-​less; taking an americano to £2.80; one of the more pricey cups of joe in the area. Other than that, nice place. The sweet shop coffee beans are also brilliant — highly recommended.

I really wanted to like Dose. They’re in the London coffee guide and are tucked away off the beaten track on Long Lane.
But when I see a barista prepare a long black by topping an espresso up with boiling hot water, it’s game over for me. Barely acceptable in Greggs; definitely not in a place that is charging £2.60.

Good, ‘serious’ strong coffee. Good mochas with good chocolate. It’s small (just a few tables) and can get really hot inside so can be difficult to meet people here and sometimes you stand around awkwardly waiting for your takeaway order because there’s nowhere to really stand or perch. They have a few yummy little sandwiches and baked goods too.

Dose in Long Lane is my favourite coffee shop atm. And I don’t even drink coffee! I’m lucky it’s so close because when I have friends round and they look horrified at my 3 year old supermarket own brand coffee offering (told you I didn’t drink coffee) I can nip out to get som ‘ahhh coffee’ from Dose. And while I’m there pick up packets of leaf tea (by the gram) from Waterloo Tea, and Bircher, and sandwiches which are a meal in themselves etc etc. Actually wish Dose wasn’t so close — I spend far too much money there!

Pokey, hot, no nonsense service, coffee that puts hairs on your chest — what else is there to ask for?

Tiny space, good pastries. It’s a «real» coffee shop. Aeropress, drip, espresso. Just enough attitude to make you feel like you’re at Blue Bottle in SF. Me: «do you have cream or milk?» Barista: yes, but have you tried it without? Me: «Yes, that’s why I asked for cream or milk.»
In a city of weak filter coffee and not much else other than the occasional Starbucks, I would become a regular if I lived here.

Bizarre little coffee joint. It’s supposed to be Indian styled but I don’t really see the difference, maybe throw away some of the furniture and you’ll get a regular café. Well, that’s not bad at all. On the contrary, Dose is pretty great and each and every of its features are nicely touched up to the modern standards. The drinks are great, with a nice touch of creativity and uniqueness in some of them. I have seen the place so packed that it almost made me walk away but the sweet aroma of coffee and desserts made me stay.

Insanely good coffee! Great location, relaxed ambience and warm staff make this place a must for coffee lovers.

I will try this place for dinner or late night sometime so I can check out that part of the menu but, for now, I’m a fan! and I’m enjoying drinking there such an amazing coffee today!

Dose is another indie coffee joint serving Square Mile and delivered via high quality machinery and passionate baristas.
It is a small place and would only serve for quick chats and meetings (I don’t think I could work here) but the place seemed friendly enough.
I came in here mid-​afternoon and it wasn’t too busy, but I imagine this place will have queues at peak times of the day.
My flat white had all the smooth notes and velvety coffee goodness you would come to expect from a well-​reputed coffee place serving Square Mile beans.
Small but ample selection of cakes and things when I was in there. The tea selections looked lovely too.
Other good things include a loyalty card and free wi-​fi (which I didn’t get to use).

Good things come in small packages seems true for this place. The place is small but they serve nice food. They serve the best coffee in area.

Finally stopped by and I like Dose. Another Square Milin’ good pullin’ piled high with sweets coffee snobbery kind of place.
And free wi-​fi.
The place is tiny so you don’t get a good «crowd» effect. But the place has a good vibe.
Wish the door would have closed by itself on a cool day like today. Got out of my seat 10 times to close the door.

I have been a big fan of Dose for a while — both in its original (super tiny location) and its new (slightly larger but still pretty small) base just down the road. It is at its best mid-​morning or mid-​afternoon after or before the morning/​lunch rush has subsided. At that time, there is space to relax, enjoy your coffee and browse the web on Dose’s free (and fast) WiFi.
Its popularity during rush hour is well deserved. It offers all the usual coffee variations with a few specials that I hadn’t heard of before. For example, a ‘Gibraltar’ is on the coffee menu which is, apparently, a Double Macchiato made with ristretto rather than espresso shots. It also offers Aeropress and ‘Clever dripper’ coffee. This is all topped up by friendly staff who give real care and attention to your order. In short — excellent!

They have the MOST amazing chocolate brownie cheesecake/​cheesecake brownie. Whatever they call it, they are fantabulous. And always running out! Gah!
The coconut brownie is also good but just not as good.
Dunno anything about the coffees coz I don’t drink coffee, sandwiches merely ok.
Fine, I guess it is not quite 5 star but the cheesecake brownie is…

Yet another delightful Farringdon find!
A seriously tiny café absolutely brimming with delicious cakes, cookies, and pastries; rich, fresh, ethically-​sourced coffee and the teeniest tables ever!
The hot chocolate is so thick and rich you might as well eat it with a spoon, but that’s the way (uh-​huh, uh-​huh) I like it (uh-​huh, uh-​huh)!
I haven’t tried their cakes but the sight of the cheesecake brownies had me drooling and the sound of the organic ginger and Guinness cake intrigued me. Perhaps a trip back to sample some naughty treats (in the name of research) is required!
A great place to stop for a shot of caffeine, a naughty cake, a quick catch-​up with a friend or simply if you need a port in a storm (space-​allowing!)
What a little treasure!

In my day off, I took the tube to Barbican only to try the coffee here. I feel it’s completely my duty as a coffee lover, to have a go at least once, to all the coffee shops featured in London coffee guides. I asked for the soya flat white, to compare with the other Kiwi/​Aussie coffee shops I’ve tried so far, and I wasn’t disappointed at all, it was delicious. I wasn’t expecting less, actually, after reading so many great reviews. Also, at £2.60 to stay in, I find it reasonable.
What I really liked of the place was the staff. There was a girl there, extremely nice and knowledgeable, a truly coffee geek! A guy came in to leave his CV, although they weren’t looking for new baristas at that moment. But she advised him where to look and I could overhear their conversation about different well-​known coffee places in London, the blends they used, their espresso machines, their award-​winning baristas… It’s awesome when the staff really love what they do.

Yes.
I should just stop there, but there are a few slightly informative points I may or may not make before I finish. (If you’re already bored, just know this: YES.)
I’ve been popping into Dose for nearly a year now. It was initially just a substitute for my precious Stumptown brew that makes my heart pitter-​pat in an excitable caffeinated rhythm. Square Mile roasts fantastic, fantastic, fantastic beans. Are they the best? Debatable.
Enter the aeropress. Now we’re dealing with bells and whistles in the form of micro-​filters, air pressure and specifically timed water-​to-​grounds ratios. The result is said fantastic, fantastic, fantastic bean being blinded by science and pressed to submission to create one of the smoothest espressos you’ll ever have the pleasure of sipping.
I do love my skinny milk and it would indeed be nice if they stocked it for my random calcium cravings… especially when baristas have that inexplicable God-​given gift of making skinny milk taste like half and half. But with Americanos this good, the milk may just get in the way!
Long story short: YES.

Aero-​Press??? Is that like French press? Well, apparently it’s the latest hype on the yuppie-​coffee scene and being a sucker for everything exotic, fancy, weird and new, I simply had to try it.
Lizzie G. actually recommended «Dose» to me when I was in desperate need of an actual dose of caffeine. No sooner said than done… I walked to Dose and I took an immediate liking to the small coffee shop. It’s rather small… or tiny would be the better word, but they have a cute little nook where I can picture myself reading some bohemian-​kind-​of-​novel!
But back to the aero-​press: brewing the coffee (if that is still the word that one can use) is really quite a procedure and I wonder how many years of training it takes to learn this. The machinery itself kind of reminded me a little bit of a giant syringe… a syringe with a dose of caffeine! But it’s definitively an experience watching them press the coffee into the container…
Once my coffee had been created (and this is actually a good word to use), I was about to carelessly add some sugar to it, when the barista suggested I should try it without sugar first. She mentioned something about this coffee being more tea-​like and more delicate and thus people would usually don’t drink it with sugar… and she was right, it was really tasty — naked as it was!
Which brings me to the point: when are you going to try your first naked air-​pressed coffee?

I’ve just lost my Aero-​press virginity and I’m a happy girl. Square Mile coffee beans, lovingly brewed to make a tasty cup of magic, black magic at that!
So it’s the World Barista Championships at the moment and after popping in there this morning I felt like my taste buds deserved even more great brew. After hearing about this Aero-​press system from Larissa D, I headed on over there for a drink and a sarnie. I have to say, fab sandwiches fellas. Yes you did ask me if I wanted it toasted which is a little weird when it’s fresh salmon and dill but hey, whatever floats your boat. This place is possibly a 5 star venue. Staff are a little surly but that’s kinda what you expect from guys this good.
So back to the coffee and yes it really was lovely, so lovely, I had it back, with no sugar. A first for me. Thank you Dose. I’m so glad I work close to you. You make my mornings happier.

This place is literally right across the street from the Barbican tube stop, turn right out the exit and walk half a block.
Needless to say the coffee is very good or I probably wouldn’t have treked to no-​mans land during the daytime. It gets an interesting cross section of office workers… There are only two tiny tables there, and window seats, making it cozy… but the espresso makes it worth every ounce of effort to get there.
Yes, another aussie joint, to be sure. Why not five stars then? Oh I don’t know the coffee was pretty much five stars, I guess the café part of the place was a little lacking I guess…