Hello and welcome to the new Boughton’s Coffee House website. All you busy artisan roasters, baristas, suppliers and café owners out there can now keep in the loop with up-to-the-minute developments in the coffee industry as they happen. It’s here you’ll find Boughton’s List as well, the invaluable resource that…

It was National Tea Day recently (April 21st to be precise) and there was a flurry of press releases advertising the event. What stood out was that they were all singing the praises of speciality teas that are a million miles away from the traditional builder’s brew. One mailout in…

It seems the thorny issue of what to do with disposable cups is never out of the press lately, with the most quoted statistic of 2.5 billion of them going into landfill never far from the headlines. TV chef and waste campaigner Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall took his ‘coffee cup battle…