Coffee Under Pressure | speciality coffee & tea (7 Blagrave street) — Restaurant in Reading

I can't recommend this little coffee shop enough! It's surrounded by big chains of coffee shops (like starbucks, cafe nero and Pret), and also big-chain food and drink places like Oneils and many other pubs. But the coffee and drinks taste far better than any of these. It's greek-owned and probably originally a greek idea, and the greeks know how to do good coffee and refreshments in general. There are always really friendly people serving, and you can sit indoors or outdoors looking across at Reading Town Hall, which is really nice architecture so isn't like looking at a high rise building!

They always have lovely greek food to buy there too, which is pastries filled with spinach and feta etc. Whenever you get a drink with chocolate in it, you can choose from three different types, and there is always the option for dairy milk alternatives. The smoothies are gorgeous. Has a much more relaxed feel than any other shops in the area, probably because of the management!!

Please go and support, but not for the sake of supporting, but because it really is much better than anything else...

Very disappointed. I came here especially because I saw they made the top 50 coffee shops in England. I came around 1pm. It was empty. No sight of any food menus in the place. I ordered a latte and it was very average - thin and opaque. Canvassing wasn’t good and the latte art was faint. It also came in a paper cup. I asked the barista if she had ceramic cups and she said the owner had decided to get rid of all ceramic cups. She seemed frustrated with the decision due to it obviously not being a good move for environmental reasons. The spinach and feta pastry also tasted a bit hard and stale.

I really wanted to love this coffee shop and it just disappointed me on every level. The barista was friendly - that was the...

After looking on maps here for a matcha latte and not finding anywhere worth the visit, I fortunately stumbled across this place and as it turns out, they do a matcha latte! Tastes very nice too. Staff were lovely, I came in and asked if they had any croissants, they had none but some were baking. When they were ready, the staff came over to me but I was on the phone so she signalled if I want one, I gave a thumbs up and she came back with a fresh warm croissant and the contactless payment which in my opinion was great customer service. I’ll be returning here,...