Dimitris, Deansgate

Dimitris Greek Deli, café and restaurant.

Nice tasting coffee, great location; next door to Cervantes Spanish Cultural Centre and an Italian restaurant. However, the cups of coffee were small. On the other hand exotic Greek staff and competitively priced, you want to come back for more next time.

Grindsmiths

New state of the art coffee house on Deansgate, Manchester. Emphasis on crafted coffee, lovely taste but small cups for £2.95. Two young men, but no staff, we had a 15 minute wait for our cappuccinos. The café itself doesn't seem completed yet with patchy pockets of unfinished seating. I'm not sure if this is intentional or not.  Some seats lucky to have panoramic views of passers-by from large windows. These are great for cruising. Otherwise seating hidden away, and it wasn't clear where the boundaries of café are and the arts centre begins. There was also no music. 

La Cote Brasserie, by Kendals

Nice French environment with young students working as waiters / waitresses. Makes me want to paint one of them in a French impressionist style...muscles and holding a round dish tray, or maybe charcoal etch.
Food was excellent as usual with a very reasonable pre-theatre set menu, the coffee very good...the milk had very good professional texture and the coffee a delight on the taste buds. Only criticism there wasn't a lot of it. Shame about the boisterous office parties, couldn't hear each other talk in the restaurant.

Second Cup cafe, Corporation Street, Manchester

On first entering it looked a tad utilitarian and down market. Staff were presentable and local and agreeably there was an all male team of baristas and I was blown away by the server with the muscular and hairy forearms.
The coffee had depth and good flavour notes and was competitively priced, with an ample selection of cakes. The clientele were smart / professional and favoured the mountain lodge like spacious room upstairs, a nice place to hide away from the bad weather, though the music was a bit irritating.
Located in a popular shopping spot between the Arndale and Marks and Spencers.

Buenos dias

Buenos dias, que tal?

Me gustaria quedar antes de que tu regrese a Espana

Christmas break

A bit of self help, a quick coffee grabbed in Neros on Portland Street Manchester. A sorry for  ' we made you feel like sh*t'. I still have belonging even though the bar wasn't right for me today.

Molly House Coffee

Dark brown coffee from a dark brown man