Tim Rogg

After a higher class of caffeine fix? Here's a quick selection of some of London's most progressive coffee shops.   1. Mother’s Milk Oxford Circus has loads of cafés to choose from, but one of the must-see venues has to be Mother’s Milk. It's inside the foyer of Exposure, a communications agency just off Oxford Street. They expertly brew with the UK’s only source of JBKaffee – one of Germany’s finest roasters. 22-23 Little Portland St, W1W 8BU.   <img id="15f6f7a3-0014-c4b9-1d83-b6691f3c05f7" data-caption="Black Box" data-credit="Tim Rogg" data-width-class="" type="image/jpeg" total="5441006" loaded="5441006" alt="Black Box" image_id="102957638" src="http://media.timeout.com/images/102957638/image.jpg" class="photo lazy inline"> Black BoxTim Rogg  2. Black Box Coffee Black Box has several pop-up style outlets, including one in Hackney, but the most hard-to-find branch sits inside the Queen's Park studio of fashion designer Michiko Koshino. It’s a quiet and stylish space and is run by a talented Lithuanian barista who frequently changes the coffees he sells, so it's worth stopping in when you can to try out the latest beans. 74 Salusbury Road, Queen's Park, London, NW6 6NU.   <img id="4b4818e7-f1f8-cf69-17af-4042aee075ed" data-caption="Counter Coffee" data-credit="Aiko Yanagida" data-width-class="" type="image/jpeg" t

You may still be trying to get your head around the difference between a latte and a flat white (spoiler: one’s a bit smaller), but in the meantime the coffee world has moved on. London now lives in the era of third-wave coffee – a movement that comes with a new level of appreciation for the humble bean-based brew. Forget foams and flavoured syrups – the third wave is all about origin, processing methods and artisan roasting. Most third-wave roasts are lighter than what you might be used to. It might be brewed the old fashioned way, poured through a paper filter, but with precision amounts of coffee at just the right temperature. It’s a complex new world of caffeine, but one well worth exploring - especially in some of the most unlikely places in the capital. Here’s where to get involved: <img id="cae7842f-de04-a215-a01a-13c3fbd6bf63" data-caption="" data-credit="Tim Rogg" data-width-class="" type="image/jpeg" total="6816990" loaded="6816990" image_id="102909273" src="http://media.timeout.com/images/102909273/image.jpg" class="photo lazy inline"> Tim Rogg  Sharps Barber and Shop Need a crop and a cappuccino? Then head to Sharps in Noho – a barbershop that also serves great coffee. Offering several brewing methods, Sharps has had input from third wave heavyweights Dunne & Frankowski – who are also responsible for the cuppas at Protein – and now they're serving one of Berlin’s finest coffees, The Barn. <img id="06abb38c-6ffd-7e1b-b069-a5cf097a9c0a" data-caption="" dat