A new Workhouse Coffee is in the works. The new-look cafe will look like this (according to WHC’s Eva Marie Fels):
Will have a completely new flooring system.
All new espresso machines including a unit being built in Italy right now that is not for market release until 2010.
Look even less than it already does like a shop [...]
A local UI designer, Ros Horner, reached out to me recently, saying that Reading’s Zerodegrees had won a CAMRA Pub Design Award in the new build category.
Ros observed in her blog post:
It goes to show that Real Ale doesn’t have to be all beardy old beer bellies and horse brasses. (Not that there’s anything wrong with [...]
Last night, I was fortunate enough to experience the Las Iguanas launch party, held at their new Reading restaurant at The Oracle Riverside. This was my first Las Iguanas (Spanish for “The Iguanas”) visit, although I’ve had a peek inside two of their other restaurants, in Brighton and on London’s South Bank.
I’m grateful to Lucy Harwood, Las Iguanas Marketing [...]
I was pretty stunned to read that Network Rail bosses are to receive six-figure bonuses. I don’t like seeing executives rewarded for failure anyway, but this really stung. The UK rail travel experience is often unpleasant and horrendously expensive.
Fortunately, if you feel similarly frustrated, you can have your say this coming Tuesday evening, as Network Rail and [...]
Like Reading’s blogosphere, the town’s Twitterverse is flourishing.
I believe we now have what can be described as a legitimate Reading identity (or strands of identity) on Twitter, shaped by 4 key developments:
#rdg was created
#rdgtweetup event and corresponding hashtag were created
Journalists from getreading/Reading Post and Reading Chronicle joined Twitter
Reading Chronicle and getreading/Reading Post began using #rdgnews to publish [...]
The prolific political blogger Oranjepan has published an interesting (and unique, I believe) analysis of the Berkshire blogosphere.
Oranjepan compiled a list of most influential Berkshire blogs in June 2009 (based on Wikio rankings), with John Redwood’s Diary in top position. The other titles in the top 5 were listed as Boulton & Co., Mark Reckons, [...]
Workhouse Coffee’s Greg Costello is going from strength to strength.
Tomorrow he’s flying to Dublin to sit an exam that will certify him as a SCAE Gold Cup Brewmaster and then, next week, he’s off to Cologne “to look at more coffee rig stuff”.
Finally, Workhouse Coffee will undergo a makeover in July (please don’t [...]
Keen observers of this blog will notice that there are 5 tweets displayed in the sidebar.
These entries are the latest results based on a Twitter search for #rdg, a popular hashtag used to group Reading tweets together.
Still on the microblogging theme, Reading Post journalists now have a Twitter presence:
Reading Post: @getreading
Leigh Mencarini : @LeMencs
Jonny Fordham: @JonnyFordham
Stuck for pub ideas on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Oxford, I turned to Twitter and received two replies:
tempted to try a third Oxford pub. On my own, so a bit sad, no?
3:01 PM Jun 6th from mobile web
@mattbrady Suggest the Royal Blenheim on St Ebbes. Best real ale pub in Oxford, sloe gin, mean [...]
