Frequency

Specialty Coffee Shop by Day, Beer and Wine Bar by Night.

FREQUENCY

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Frequency | Brian's Coffee Spot

When it comes to coffee, there’s a commendably concise espresso-based menu, plus a choice of three single-origins on filter (one of which is the same bean in the hopper for the espresso).

Frequency itself is a cosy space, long and thin, with seating at the front and in a little room at the back if you want to escape the coming and going of the other customers.

Frequency has a simple shop front, with a pair of floor-to-ceiling windows flanking a slightly-recessed glass door.

Through an opening in the back wall, you reach a small room at the back, with an L-shaped bench against the back and right-hand walls, where there are three more tables.

There’s plenty of natural light from the windows at the front, while the room at the back has its own window on the left.

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That's why coffee- and music-lover Justo didn't waste any time when he spotted a vacant shop on King's Cross Road, a few minutes' south-east of King's Cross station.

The décor also echoes Frequency's musical theme: rather uniquely, the coffee bar is kitted out with sound-proofing — to great effect — and red cords that mimic sound waves hang from the ceiling.

The coffee is from Workshop — down the line, they hope to offer a few guest coffees too — and there were espresso (Cult of Done) and filter ( Los Altares) options available.

I'd been having a tough day at work and double coffee seemed to be the answer, so I ordered both a piccolo (£2.80) and a filter coffee, brewed through the Aeropress (£2.80) — they will also brew you a V60 if you would like.

There is a bigger room in the basement, which isn't open yet — the plan is to host live music and other musical events down there but, understandably, Justo and his team are focusing on the coffee for now.

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Note: there are various ways to define the King's Cross area, but I tend to count anything south of the Euston Road as Bloomsbury and anything west of the British Library as Euston — essentially, if King's Cross is the nearest Tube station, it's included!

Frequency One of the newest coffee shops to open in King's Cross, Frequency is slightly off the beaten track but its King's Cross Road location is only a brisk five-minute stroll from the station and it is well worth seeking out for its well-made espresso-based drinks and Aeropress- and V60-brewed filter coffees.

Noble Espresso Once a more integrated part of the popular KERB street food market, which has since decamped further north up King's Boulevard, Noble Espresso usually pitches up on Battle Bridge Place — at the back of King's Cross Station and just south-east of the new Pancras Square development.

Origin have had a little concession in the entrance hall of the British Library, a few minutes' walk from King's Cross station, for some time but it was their takeover of the formerly uninspiring coffee hatch on the Euston Road side of the library that I was waiting for.

There are also a handful of tables on the pavement outside and while the prospect of a relaxing coffee on the Euston Road may not sound like too enticing a prospect, Origin have created a beautiful space and it's a lovely place to sit, especially when the sun is out.

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in Italian) is the latest opening from relentless restaurateur Jason Atherton.

This time, though, Atherton has turned his hand to Italian cooking, with a menu of pasta, pizza, and authentic small plates.

Atherton's almost as good at bars as he is at restaurants, and the offering at Hai Cenato doesn't disappoint.

Above the dining space is The Drunken Oyster, a sleek, New York-style bar serving Italian-style drinks.

As for wine, there's a respectable selection of Italian varieties, from trebbiano through to chianti.

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But, on the plus side, they have taken many restaurant staples – for instance, bread – and fancied them up – in that example, with a rabbit rillettes and cornichons.

My octopus had a great texture, not too chewy but never spongy.

That at least explained the price, since it is a delicacy and does have a finer texture than older lamb, to no depletion of the flavour.

I finished with Napoleon cake, the pride of the place, to judge by the dishes they had placed next to the maitr d', like a showcase table in an Italian restaurant from the 1980s.

Start with scallops with chorizo (£18.50), before roast duck (£32.50) A busy high street is the unexpected setting for Richard Turner's Michelin-starred restaurant.

Sorrel, Dorking, Surrey: 'A meal that's as highly polished as the ...

The waiters are quizzed on ingredients with such frequency and enthusiasm that I fear for our chances of catching the last train home Comfort seems to be a dirty word in restaurant design circles these days, but after a long, damp trek from the railway station (you try getting a taxi in Dorking on a wet Friday evening), it’s pure pleasure to collapse into Sorrel’s plump, velvety banquettes and be spoiled rotten for a couple of hours.

I suspect she’s right – not in those heels, anyway – but whether they came by bus or Bentley, everyone seems genuinely excited to be here, quizzing the waiters on ingredients and techniques with such frequency and enthusiasm that I begin to fear for our chances of catching the last train home.

Highlights of the nine-course tasting menu include a yolk-yellow warm pumpkin mousse studded with sweet, crunchy praline that packs a glorious parmesan punch; a yoghurty goat’s cheese and beetroot dish that’s so clean and fresh, we’re momentarily silenced (though I regret polishing off the accompanying polka dot of douglas fir mayo without stopping to consider if it tastes of trees); and, perhaps best of all, a plate of duck from nearby Leith Hill.

I certainly wouldn’t have chosen the “blackberry waldorf” had I known the main element was celeriac and walnut parfait, but it’s a triumph of autumnal flavours: pickled berries brighten the earthy sweetness of that poor, ugly root, and are helped in their task by an astonishingly good sorrel sorbet that ought to be a permanent fixture on Sorrel’s menu.

Sorrel isn’t cheap (thank God the cheery sommelier alerts us to the half-bottles hidden at the back of the wine menu) but, I reflect, huddled on the frosty platform at Dorking Deepdene waiting for the 00.38 to loom out of the darkness, it does make you feel very special.

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