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January 25, 2010 · 2 Comments
Anyone in Cape Town that knows good coffee knows David Donde. He was a founding partner and the main voice for Origin, the coffee shop that really and truly first introduced good, freshly roasted coffee to Cape Town. He also writes car reviews. And does a late night radio talk show (too much caffeine?). And blogs. And tweets. And basically is a very proficient one-man noisemaker for whatever he chooses to make noise about.
I popped into his new place, TRUTH. coffeecult, last week for a caffeine fix and yes, let me tell you what you had already guessed: the coffee is freaking amazing. Yup, he’s bringing in some awesome beans and roasting them with added teaspoons of crack or something because that little shot of dark is so damned tasty, well… I mean, it’s just so damned good there must be something in there besides coffee! No? Okay, there isn’t, and it’s tribute to the man and his bean obsession (hence the name of the store) that he can produce such good stuff.
At TRUTH you can buy a variety of industrially-packaged roasted beans with names like Resurrection Blend or Donde’s Chaos. Antithesis, is the best-named one in my book, since being caffeine-free is really in direct opposition to the idea of coffee. At least to me. The idea of caffeine-free coffee rates way up there with non-alcoholic beer or a caesar salad without bacon on the ‘Why the Hell?!’ list. TRUTH also serves basic food options (the pita burgers are quite tasty) but the focus here is clearly on the coffee. As it should be.
I drank and espresso and a flat white, made with the Resurrection Blend, and both were outstanding though the flat white whipped butt. The only criticism I can provide of the place is the place itself. Amazing coffee, but TRUTH is a bit ‘arb’ in its design (or lack of it? though the sustainable feel is commendable) and attachment to what must be Cape Town’s most random memorial (Prestwich Memorial, made as a sort of ‘tax’ by developers so they could continue their property development a few blocks away). Music selection and volume could help but at the moment it is a little soul-less, something ironic and at odds with the evangelical force Donde is himself.
TRUTH. coffeecult. Definitely go here for your caffeine fix. More than once.
