Appestat

The Journal Coffee loving, cheese cutting, charcuterie slicing. Cafe & shop. N1 living

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Barrista Art @ Appestat

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We Love Coffee & We Love Cheese. Here is Anneka Kissing A Stilton to Prove It

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Quality & Taste: It Means A Lot To Us

Pop in to see us, have a browse through our pantry and deli items and this symbol is something you'll see dotted about the place quite a bit. When we set up Appestat Anneka and Sarley scoured London for the very best food we could find. We set a premium on locally sourced, excellent tasting produce made by those who who put heart and soul into what they do.

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So What Does It All Mean?

ap·pe·stat: (ăp′ĭ-stăt′)

Noun:

The area in the brain that is believed to regulate appetite and food intake.

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We Are Just So Jammy: But So Is One Of Our Local Suppliers

And it is because we stock the fabulous preserves from our Holloway neighbours The London Jam Factory. Founder Pierre­-Louis Phelipot, a French native­born produces jams with 66% fruit by using what he calls ‘alchemy’. Every one has a notable twist in flavour combos such as peach, raspberry and rose, blueberry and violet or apricot and spices.

Pierre-­Louis has created 5 different collections (spring, summer, autumn, winter and classic), with numerous limited editions being the reflection of LJF’s creativity. Neither do they contain any preservatives or gelling agents made the tradtional way in copper pans. This results in jams that are scrummy and as authentic as their creator.

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Tea was more popular than coffee in America until George III increased taxes on tea. From that point coffee became America's national drink.

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Islington: London's Larder Guided Walk Jan 15th

Local historian Rob Smith gets top marks on Trip Advisor for his guided food history walk around N1 revealing the secrets of meat, milk and the City from the last 100 years or so. Fascinating stuff. Next one is next month and book here www.footprintsoflondon.com . Stopping off with us for a hot chocolate afterwards would round that off nicely, wouldn't it?

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Islington: Dairy Farms on Upper Street

Appestat prides itself on its strong offering of cheese but we are by no means the first to be proud of our dairy produce. In the 1750s there were 16 acres of grassland between Upper St and Liverpool Street where dairy farmer Richard Laycock had 400-700 cows and had others muster there on their way into Smithfield. it was one of London’s two largest dairies … both calling Islington their home. What is now the Business Design Centre was a huge agricultural hall.

The first Royal Tournament was held there, six day cycling events in 1878, cattle markets and the first Crufts dog show was held there in 1891. Urban dairies thrived in N1 and milk would have been sold straight from a tethered cow in the street. In the summer, and with no refridgeration, milk was preserved by making it into cheese. The essence of this tradition was maintained when Islington’s Farmer’s Market opened in 1999. And we are doing our bit too by selling produce as local to the shop as possible. This wonderful Graceburn, an organic cow’s milk cheese in herbs and oil, is produced by Brockley dairy Blackwoods. We stock all the best chutneys and buscuits too.

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Where Does the Word Cappuchino Come From?

The fawn coloured robes of the Capuchin monks of Italy were the inspiration for this lovely creamy quaff.

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Up Close to Caffeine

This false-coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) shows caffeine crystals. Caffeine is a bitter, crystalline xanthine alkaloid that acts as a stimulant drug ...  as any self respecting coffee addict knows. In plants, caffeine functions as a defence mechanism. Found in varying quantities in the seeds, leaves and fruit of some plants, caffeine acts as a natural pesticide that paralyses and kills certain insects feeding on the plant. (Photo by Annie Cavanagh/Wellcome Images)

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A Stairway to Heaven

If you visit us at Appestat or are mooching about in Islington you may well have used the tube to get here. One of the lesser known facts about the Angel Tube Station is that it hosts the third longest escalator in Europe at 60m/167ft. Take the stairs instead and drop off with us for a coffee and cake to get over the exertion.

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Deli to Die For

We have so many top pantry items and a charcuterie and cheese counter it'll make your head spin. Let us make it easier for you with our set price meat and cheese boards. Perfect for pre or post dinner. Yum!

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America's Big Boys in Coffee Jostle as Independents in UK Outnumber the Chains

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/12/starbucks-faces-growing-rivals-as-coffee-wars-reach-boiling-point

Thompson sees two reliable truths: “When you walk down mid-town Manhattan, you see the machinery of modern American life,” he said. “The machines are fuelled by a black tarry substance known as petroleum – and the people are fuelled by a black tarry substance known as coffee.”

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The London screenings of this film have come and gone but watch this seductive trailer and you can stream/buy through vimeo for $4.99.

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Our Customers Say the Nicest Things: Reviews

"Love the people who work here, they lift your spirits in the most authentic way. The coffee is on point, gets me high all day, in a good way"

"Brilliant coffee...brilliant ethos. Very happy this place has opened up."

"Another amazing coffee at Appestat."

"Great coffee, food and ambience at Appestat."

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Best Hangover Cure?

Coffee helps but try this Seggiano Sicilian Cherry Tomato Salsa we have instore. Made uniquely from ciligreno cherry tomatoes grown on the Ragusa coastal parts of Sicily this sauce is off the scale intense. It is grown by smallholders, the Arestia family, who have farmed tomatoes for two generations. This sweet, instant tomato elixir makes a perfect Bloody Mary or base for any decent pasta sauce. There is a big "PS" in this as the second photo was sent to us by someone who used this magical stuff to make Morrocan spiced tomato sauce to go with saffron and rosemary chicken.

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Car-Puccino Anyone? Yes, A Car That Runs on Coffee

This sexy beast (which is actually a VW Scirrocco) is a car that made the 210 mile journey from Manchester to London powered by ground coffee. Seventy kilograms of the stuff. At least the exhaust fumes would have been quite pleasant. The team behind it conception reckons the Car-Puccino will do 3 miles per kilo of ground coffee which equates to 56 espressos per mile. Plus refuelling stops every 45 miles. Not a cheap endeavour either. The coffee would cost up to £1800 with the petrol equivalent a fraction of that. So don't expect to be filling up with this anytime soon. The useful part is that the gasification of other materials such as landfill, walnut shells or woodchips could eventually make a positive contribution to the need for better eco-fuels. For the geeks this is how is works.