Peter S.
Yelp
Flight Coffee Hangar put me very firmly in my happy place. The space: modern, colourful, airy. The service: friendly, ever-helpful and knowledgeable. And the coffee, particularly the filter,
Some standout highlights:
Their approach to selling coffee. In London, you're typically presented with a faintly intimidating menu and asked to make all the decisions - what bean, prepared with what method. In Flight Coffee Hangar, you choose the bean and the barista chooses the method. I'm sure you could choose the method too, but letting the pros make the decisions sometimes is a real help. And it paid off - the drip Kenyan I had was excellent.
The service. The waiter ('Dilwen', I think) was one of the best I've been served by for a long time. Really friendly, knowledgeable, helpful and reassuring when the sound of chilli scared my wimpy palate.
And the chefs. I was seated right at the back, so far back in fact that I was behind the counter. Directly in front of me was one of the chefs. So impressed was I by his command of his job and environment - his complete focus when preparing food, his attention to detail, his organisation of his workspace - that I was inspired to order one of the same dishes he was preparing (French toast). When I told him how impressed I was, he responded with a sheepish, slightly blushing "thanks, man!". Awww.
There were a couple of minor shortcomings, like the flat white which could have been richer, but they hardly blemished the experience for me. Loved it.