It can be tricky to navigate an unfamiliar location and find the best spots for your morning coffee fix, but there’s a chance you’ve been looking in all the wrong places
Going on holiday to a new town or city is always exciting, whether that’s here in the UK or further afield. And on that first morning, there’s no better way to check out your surroundings than going for a walk, grabbing a coffee on the way.
A disappointing cup of coffee is nobody’s favourite way to start the day, let alone a holiday. So you’ll probably spend a bit of time on your phone before leaving in the morning, searching for the best cafes in the surrounding area.
But according to one travel expert, this is where you’re going wrong. There’s actually a much better way to supposedly hunt down the best coffees, and it involves using a very unusual trick.
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The hack was shared on TikTok by comedian Alex Falcone who, ahead of going on tour, shared some valuable expertise on finding ‘the best coffee in any city’ simply by changing the way you search online.
And after being viewed thousands of times, many people are in firm agreement with Alex’s video – with baristas taking to the comments to confirm that he is correct.
All you need to do to find this quality coffee is have a scout around some nearby shops on Google, like you would do anyway. But the key difference, Alex suggests, is to look for places which have two-star reviews. This may sound contradictory, but Alex explained why in detail.
He said: “Two star reviews are perfect. Five star reviews are bots, one star reviews are crazy people, three are for cowards. So two and four are where the real money happens, and two is the most interesting.
“What you’re looking for is a place that has a lot of two star reviews, where people say the food, or the coffee, or whatever was really good, but the service was awful.
“If someone writes that review… they wanted to write a one star review. But they couldn’t, because fairness required them to admit the coffee was pretty good.”
He added that this was true of anything service-based. If places are able to get by with less-than-ideal service, then their products must be good.
In the video’s comments, people had to admit that Alex’s advice – contradictory as it may be – actually made quite a lot of sense. One person said: “Barista here: 100% can confirm, people don’t realize there’s literally only so fast an espresso shot can physically run through the machine. So if there’s a line youre waiting 10-20 min for a latte.”
Another said: “Dude. This is the most sound logic I’ve ever heard.”
Sharing their own experience of this phenomenon, one person wrote: “Ha! My favorite cafe & BEST coffee in town is the one owned by the Turkish man who yells at ppl when they take too long to decide on their order. I cried the first time I went but the food is SO good!”
“This is genius,” added another.
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