{"id":51451,"date":"2013-08-12T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=51451"},"modified":"2013-08-13T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T09:37:35","slug":"caffe-nero-40-42-main-st-bangor-county-down-bt20-5ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/caffe-nero-40-42-main-st-bangor-county-down-bt20-5ag\/","title":{"rendered":"Caffe Nero, 40-42 Main St, Bangor, county down, BT20 5AG &#8211; Caffe Nero wins Which? taste test \/ Topping Both Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caffe Nero has won a snapshot expert taste test of high street coffee chains by consumer watchdog Which?.<\/p>\n<p>The chain beat Costa, the M&#038;S Cafe, Pret a Manger and Starbucks with its Americano, which expert Giles Hilton said was the only one he tasted where he thought he could identify the origin of the beans.<\/p>\n<p>He gave it a score of nine out of 10, compared with six for the M&#038;S version which he described as &#8220;reasonable and safe&#8221; and five for Starbucks, which he found to be &#8220;a little watery and single-dimensional&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Caffe Nero also topped the table for its cappuccino, scoring eight of 10, compared with Pret a Manger, which managed just four out of 10 for serving it with &#8220;too much milk&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said of Caffe Nero: &#8220;You can taste a rich smoothness you&#8217;d expect of a Central American coffee with an edge of spiciness indicative of an African coffee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Which? spokeswoman said: &#8220;Our expert tried a cup of Americano and a cappuccino at five of the major high street chains that sell millions of these coffees to UK consumers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although this can be down to personal taste or barista skill, he found some big differences and in particular praised Caffe Nero&#8217;s coffee for its depth of taste.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Caffe Nero said: &#8220;The Which? report is a fantastic justification of our commitment to provide the best possible coffee for customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2013, All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p>Caffe Nero<br \/>\nHigh St<br \/>\nBangor<br \/>\nFACEBOOK PAGE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/caffenero\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/caffe-nero-bangor-co-down.jpg\" alt=\"caffe nero bangor co down\" width=\"620\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-51452\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caffe Nero has won a snapshot expert taste test of high street coffee chains by consumer watchdog Which?. The chain beat Costa, the M&#038;S Cafe, Pret a Manger and Starbucks with its Americano, which expert Giles Hilton said was the only one he tasted where he thought he could identify the origin of the beans. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11857],"tags":[17216,12656,6968,6727,12657],"class_list":["post-51451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee-2","tag-bangor","tag-caffe","tag-co","tag-down","tag-nero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51451"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52143,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51451\/revisions\/52143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}