I have to admit that I'm just a tiny bit partial to a decent cup of coffee, not that one-dimensional instant brew, but the real thing. I guess it harks back to my formative years, when the ultimate in luxury was our weekly visit to a coffee shop when the family would partake of a tea cake and our choice of freshly brewed beverage. It was during this weekly ritual that I would be allowed my one and only cup of coffee of the week and at that time I would drink it black and sweet with cream floating on top (that seems to be a bit of a dying art, floating cream on top of coffee). Fast forward (ahem) thirty years and the small independent coffee shop of my childhood has been .  Read the complete review

My parents bought my husband the Krups Piccolo coffee maker for his birthday and it has gone down a treat. They certainly aren't the cheapest things on the planet, but the end result is so worth the initial outlay. Whilst my parents do like my husband, they didn't like the price tag of the machine which is between £80 and £100 (depending on where you get it from), which is how he ended up with the red one. The red one for some reason is much cheaper (and by that I mean just less than £60). It is available in various colours, including white, black and silver all of which are probably more likely to fit in with most colour schemes, but to be honest the red is ...  Read the complete review

~ The Purchase ~ I don't really like coffee, however my fiancé does. So, we ended up with this coffee machine. He bought it at the end of February, and I only started using it myself at the end of last month upon discovering that it makes hot chocolate too! ~ Price ~ My fiancé paid around the £60 mark for this I believe. It is one of the cheaper models and the retail price is around the £80 mark, which isn't too expensive for such an easy to use, good quality coffee machine in my opinion. ~ My Opinion ~" We have had this coffee machine for nearly two months now and I only quite recently started using it. Since discovering that ...  Read the complete review

The Dolce Gusto Piccolo coffee machine is a good investment for big fans of coffee as it enables you to serve up authentic coffee shop tasting coffee in your own home simply and effectively. This coffee machine is sleek in design, coming in a simple domed shape with a tray on which to put your coffee cup, a compartment to put your coffee pod in, a clear water dispenser that clicks on and off at the back and a little spout which delivers the coffee into your cup. It is as simple as that. Coffee machines can be as simple or as complicated as you like. Some are huge, domineering boxes with several dispensers and numerous buttons, which appear daunting to ...  Read the complete review