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Carlton Espresso is still closed, citing, "We are at the beach until Friday." Damn.
Brunetti is crawling with people who aren't back at work yet and are taking their five kids to Brunetti today. Damn.
Who you gonna call?
Markov!

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Carlton Espresso seemed to be packing up the tables. At twenty-five minutes to four on a Friday. Odd. Brunetti was pat to the rafters.

I'm hooked. This place is awesome. Order. Pay. Grind. Tamp. Pull. Espresso. Consume. Leave. In and out in forty-eight seconds.

I think this is a very good coffee, but I'm sick of lattes. Maybe I just need some time off from them. Or to just have stronger ones. Or to have less milk in them.
That reminds me, I forgot to mention the best bit about the latte I had at Hudson in Canberra Airport on Wednesday morning last week. She hadn't steamed enough milk, poured it all in, and it filled the cup about 3/4 of the way up. I said, "That's enough, don't worry about the rest." I think that's the secret if you want to get a decent strength latte out of Hudsons without ordering an extra shot.

I think I may have posted today's Carlton Espresso yesterday, and vice versa. It doesn't matter. They were both perfect. This place rules.

Ahh. I don't think it's worth going back to Big Harvest. Not when Brunetti is only two minutes' walk away.

Following on from the question posed in the previous post, I'm trying Carlton Espresso again. I was disappointed last time, but last-coffee-of-the-day is not the best environment for developing an opinion about this place. Here's what take two looked like:
Yeeeah! I'll be back. Repeatedly.

Well, that's the last time I'll ever trust "I've never been there before, it might be worth checking out" as an excuse to go somewhere new for coffee. Kids, if your espresso looks like this, clear the area!
Waaay too long.
I should have known from the non-central position of the coffee machine. The coffee is an afterthought at this place.
This brings us to today's homework question: if you try a place for the first time and you dislike the coffee to the point of not drinking it, do you ever go back there again? Is it worth giving them another chance, or should you just go somewhere else?

CSI (Coffee Spill Investigation) reports will reveal that the coffee was thrown, rather than dropped. After tasting this one I decided it was going to be more fun to throw it in the gutter and take a photo of the results than it would be to actually drink it. That car that drove past while I was doing it must have thought I was a nut.

Not bad. That muffin looks like it could do some damage though.