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I use Nespresso at work and a French press at home (because someone gave it to me) with "supermarket" grounded coffee. Nespresso is marginally better and clear

I use Nespresso at work and a French press at home (because someone gave it to me) with "supermarket" grounded coffee. Nespresso is marginally better and clearly more convenient (event though I drink tea and French press is mostly the same process so I don't care) but I can't shake the feeling it's too expensive, they make crazy margins and I hate the pompous stores (e.g the Opera one) with the snob employees (relax, you only sell coffee pods ...). Plus the waste, and overall bad machines (watch out for limestone). But yes, it's good progress from those water-downed coffee people drink at home (still better than what you mostly drink in the U.S :))

carlob 11y ago
> (still better than what you mostly drink in the U.S :)) You'd be surprised at how much better the average coffee is in a large American city wrt to the abomination you call espresso in Paris. :)
- grkvlt 11y ago
  That's why in Paris I buy a thing called a Cafe Noisette (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caf%C3%A9_noisette http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caf%C3%A9_noisette) which is basically a large espresso with some warmed (not frothy, though) milk on the side. Never seen it on sale outside of France, though, but any cafe there will know what you mean if you ask for one. It's one of my favourite coffees, and I now ask for a large espresso with milk on the side in cafes in the UK and elsewhere, to replicate the experience.