Visiting London recently, I noticed a new trend, whereby coffee shops from other parts of the World, are now opening in London (more on that in my next post God willing). We’ve already noticed that some Dubai restaurants like Kinoya, The Maine, Shangai Me, Gaia and Somewhere, have opened in London’s prestigious neighbourhoods.
So, not to be outdone, Voyage, of Dubai Mall, have now opened in London – not far from London’s famous store, Harrods, in Knightsbridge, next to the Binghatti show room.
When we arrived, there was a queue – this if you don’t know, is unusual for London, unless for an Instagram trendy foodie spot, but most people in the queue were from the Middle East and this is common in Riyadh. However, for our friends, it was unusual. So, after about 30 minutes waiting, we were finally let in, all 7 of us.
It’s quite a huge space for a London café and I think they have yet to maximise the space inside and I guess they might have seating downstairs soon.
The décor is similar to the one in Dubai Mall – orange clay with lounge style chairs and their menu, although more biased towards trendy drinks (matcha, etc), does have specialty coffee and pour over too, with lots of tasty cakes on offer.
Try the pistachio – it was yummy and we ordered three.
I went for a cortado, using Colombian coffee beans.
I liked that it had a bit of a punch.
Their brew bar is similar to the one in Dubai, with a Kees van der Westen espresso machine and they have a display of cakes and coffee beans for you to smell too.
After two hours of catching up, we walked over to the Binghatti (one of Dubai’s top real estate developers) show room and had a quick chat with one of the salesmen, where we spoke about the Mercedes building, being built by Binghatti in Dubai.
Find them in the prestigious neighbourhood of Kensington at 197 Brompton Road, London SW3 1LA.
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