November 18, 2009

Clements

IMG_0399When in belfast i usually need to get a coffee from Clements! Its just because the coffee is great, thats all!

Is it just me though, or is the service in pretty much every coffee shop in our land getting worse? Clements was slow and not fantastically friendly. Don’t get me wrong here, i do NOT need the staff to be in my face with smiles & sickening conversation but a bit of enthusiasm always goes a long way.

Good coffee is worth waiting for i suppose!

I can’t quite understand why there are always 2 or 3 other members of staff just hanging around, not really doing anything. Perhaps they are like a sales assistant in a clothing shop, waiting to pounce when you run out of milk? I doubt it, the dead lice were dropping off the ‘surplus’ dudes i saw on saturday!

They could be cleaning up a bit. Cleaning themselves up perhaps! Its all goth hair & huge amounts of piercings these days, if you want to work in a cool coffee shop. I’m fine with that but it has killed any desire i may have had to return to coffee-making. I’m not piercing my face as a requirement to being a great barista! It could be a good excuse to get a tattoo though!

Anyway, enough moaning! Despite slow and less than jolly service i waited and i was not disappointed, i never am with Clements, their coffee makes up for everything else! Thats why i always go back

2 Comments

  1. Connormcc says:

    Ground is hard to beat… The Belfast one isn’t great, but Coleraine and Ballymena are brilliant… I also like Nero…

  2. Graeme says:

    I go to Clements for the bowls of hot chocolate they have :) :)