#followcoffee

[amos730716]

🔍花樓咖啡二號店 - 要吃就得自己烤，超夯的韓國吐司機，現在在台南也有了喔！🤩 DIY兩三人一起動手烤一烤，還蠻有趣的☺️ - ➿要吃自己烤🅝🅣🅓₂₉₀： 一份份量蠻足夠的，兩人共享很可以！ 兩種吐司任你烤，還有杏仁瓦片附在一旁，建議小火慢烤比較不易烤焦 隨盤附有奶油、果醬可烤完後塗抹在上 還有生菜沙拉與水煮蛋，讓一天的開始就超營養的啦！ 此外店內還有超人氣千層蛋糕，每天口味都會稍作變化，飲品部分也都有不少選擇呦！ - 📍台南市中西區民權路三段55號 💈平日08:00~17:00/假日09:00~18:00 ☎ 06-2210777 - #amos食遍台南 #amos吃甜食 #花樓followcoffee #台南 #台南美食 #台南早午餐 #台南下午茶 #台南甜點 #國華街 #國華街美食 #food #foodie #eat #brunch #breakfast #toast #egg #salad #cafe #tainan #tainanfood #korea #koreanfood #instameettaiwan #iseetaiwan #delicious #sweet #2eat2gether #girl （在 一級戰區：國華街美食） https://www.instagram.com/p/BxzC8BMj1wB/?igshid=7p7k52gnq8h6

[eabhaalynn]

Why You Should Support Your Local Coffee Shop - Five Years of Follow Coffee Co

Ballymena is a fairly unremarkable Co. Antrim Town, better known for its dedication to the DUP than for its coffee establishments. You may know it as the town of Ian Paisley Jr. famous for his father and being the first ever MP subject to a recall petition. You may even know it as the “Drugs Capital of the North.”

Follow Coffee Co. is an independently owned café that, as far as I know, popped up on a pedestrianised shopping street in the shadow of the Tower Centre in Ballymena’s town centre at some stage in 2014. The glass shop front is framed with bright yellow paint and criss-crossed with metal panes, splitting both the sunlight in summer months and streetlights in the dark days of Christmas. To the left side of the building’s centre lies a heavy glass door, the geometric logo of the shop sitting front and centre above it, and illustrated in frosted glass to it’s side.

(Image Credit: Debbie Murray (insta @/followcoffee)

Inside, the design is fresh and modern, a stark and yet refreshing contrast to the traditional appearance of the town outside that has remained largely unchanged in my lifetime. Further contrast is shown on the very ground itself; wooden floors on one side, industrial concrete on the other. The stairs and two sides of the shop are bridged with diamond plate, further consolidating the image; and acknowledging the towns manufacturing history. The balcony of the top floor overlooks the entry way and provides the perfect spot for peoplewatching. At the far side of the café lies the counter, with pastries, buns, a giant blackboard, decorated with the ever-evolving lunch menu off to one side and a big, beautiful coffee machine there to greet you.

At some stage between Follow Coffee’s opening and today, my name has become synonymous with coffee drinking. Trust me, the word ‘coffee’ features in no less than five different people’s yearbook comments about me. It’s not that I’m blaming the place or anything, but when it opened, I didn’t even drink coffee.

SIX RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FOLLOW(one for each year hehe)

-      Raspberry Hot Chocolate

-      Hot Chocolate

-      Mocha

-      Iced Hazelnut Latte

-      Hazelnut Latte

-      The smoothie that has mango in it

My friends and I stumbled upon follow accidentally once when out of data and waiting for the 5.45pm 150 bus home. This was the epitome of life as a thirteen-year old in rural Ireland. The place had good, affordable hot chocolate and free wi-fi, and the girlsTM were bored. It was perfect. What more could we ever have asked for?

Before too long, I had convinced my dad and sister to ditch the usual chain coffee places and come to Follow with me. Luckily enough, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree and so they had the same love for the place that I do, the same love for independent coffee shops in general. Somewhat unsurprisingly, they fell in love. My GCSE years were upon me and I was spending more and more time in town. Honestly, I was spending more time awake and thus, the thriving caffeine dependency today was born. My Saturdays would usually involve a trip to Follow, I would bring schoolwork and stay for hours at a time, hiding myself in one of the upstairs booths and work away. The pressure of a public environment somehow always made me work harder and better.

The group of friends that I had found the place with soon imploded, as groups of young teenage girls so often do. But I didn’t mind, my newfound love for the place transcended those people, and after everything I still had so much respect for those girls. By that stage, I had befriended the Barista’s. After all, I had spent enough time bothering them at work with the intricate details of my life problems, and they were so kind and so like me that I just naturally made friends with them. Some of those friendships have even lasted to this day (more on that later).

When fifth year rolled around, I had become so disenfranchised with school, I started looking into sixth form options in town. When it became apparent that staying at my old school was no longer an option, I decided on St Louis Grammar. A brilliant school which offered me an escape from the people giving me grief, the opportunity to study the subjects I wanted and a town centre school environment, all just a twelve-minute walk away from Follow.

The winter of fifth year also was when I met my first ever boyfriend; and went on my first ever date. No prizes for guessing where that date was. Much alike the girlsTMmentioned earlier, that relationship crashed and burned. But Follow was always my place, is always going to be my place. Surely those experiences only helped to solidify it.

Sixth Form at St Louis was the best two years of my life. I have no hesitations in saying that. It was wonderful, beautiful, incredible, and yet stressful beyond belief. Because I have no common-sense AT ALL, I decided to start lower sixth off with four new a-levels, a new relationship, all these new friends … and … yet again, no surprises… a new job.

Being a Barista was always a bit of a dream of mine. I already had such a strong rapport with so many of Follow’s staff and regular customers (being one myself), from the outside, it seemed like the perfect contrast to the high stress lifestyle of sixth form at ‘’Northern Ireland’s top grammar.’’

Are you seeing a trend developing here? That plan went horribly wrong. I loved working at follow, but I was 16, a little baby. I was so stressed and had so much going on and so I only lasted a matter of months. But still; Follow had housed my first ever date and now my first ever job - Two of the most defining experiences of my teenage years. The place was becoming a second home to me. This was only further solidified by my new school, just twelve minutes away.

After quitting my job at follow, I started to study there from 3.30 to 5.30 a couple of times a week. It was a little treat, a friendly set of faces. The same people I’d been complaining to for years, but with even more substance this time. They knew all about my studies, after all, they were the reason I had left. My former colleagues had experienced the start of sixth form by my side. I studied there waiting on the same 150 bus I had been waiting on when I first found the place, all those years previously.

In lower sixth, I unsuccessfully ran for the UK Youth Parliament. The results for this came through when I was having my usual iced hazelnut latte and cry over a-levels in follow. The following summer, I sat the UKCAT, achieving a * slightly * better than average score, at the time I sat this, I didn’t know it would be better than average at all, the first people to hear all about it, and most other aspects of my University application were the staff of Follow. After passing my driving test in the winter of my Upper Sixth year, my first ever successful parallel park was on a street perpendicular to Follow, on a frosty February evening. Throughout that school year, I would consistently have to attend various mandatory revision classes for my three-surviving a-level subjects and the many resits I had reluctantly gotten myself into. Follow became a solace. The calm in the midst of the seemingly constant storm of a-levels. My former best work friend, simply became a best friend of mine. She got herself a house, became a real adult right in front of me. She was pursuing her passion for photography, doing incredibly well for herself. Then I got into medical school. Eventually.

In September 2019, I moved away. All I had ever wanted was right in front of me, a one-way plane ticket out of Northern Ireland and a place to study medicine.

For three months, I’ve been carving out a little life for myself in Lancaster. I have my own place, I am, slowly but surely, becoming a real adult. I am a far cry from the scared thirteen-year old that landed in that coffee shop desperately seeking wi-fi. Though somehow, almost a year after passing my driving test, I’m right back waiting for somewhat questionable bus services again. The 150 has turned into the dreaded 100. St Louis’ is but a happy-rose tinted memory. Lancaster Medical School has replaced the dreaded long days and mandatory revision classes with -perhaps- even more dreaded 6.30pm lectures and mandatory Problem Based Learning presentations.

Oddly enough, I am very single, and very unemployed, and truly very happy about it. This time in my life is as formative as those times I’ve been reflecting on. Even more so maybe.

But I’d be lying if I said everything in my new life in England is perfect. They say distance makes the heart grow fonder, and the latest development in me and Follow Coffee Co’s story is our long-distance phase. I miss it dearly, the familiarity it gave me throughout sixth form, the distinctive abrupt yet friendly nature of its Ballymena clientele. But it will always be there to welcome me home. It better be.

It took leaving for me to realise that you rarely find a place that means as much to you as Follow means to me, and that Starbucks and Costa rarely can give you the wealth of life experience of your favourite independent coffee shop. I have sat at every table in the place. Cried at most of them, over anything and everything from University rejections, to tiny irrelevant fights with strangers on the internet. I know every crevice of the tables, floors and skirting boards. I’ve even accidentally mopped the concrete floor and faceplanted it in my time.

Ballymena has many flaws, but it’s character and community is unmatched. No place illustrates that better to me than this. Go, visit your local independent coffee establishment. Maybe even get a job. You never know who you’ll meet, or what you’ll learn. This world is a beautiful place. Hell - Even Ballymena is.

[stoploop]

Buongiorno e buon caffè da #stoploop #caffetime #breakfast #coffeetime time #colazione #buongiorno #goodmorningpost #likecoffee #coffee #followcoffee #instagood #instalifestyle #instalife https://www.instagram.com/p/BpEGscKAmj-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rkodz8anad9v

[zazitkyna4]

MAMA COFFEE @mama_coffee ⠀ Ahoj, ahoj, ahoj 🖐️Máme na blogu novou recenzi! Kavárna Mama Coffee má spoustu poboček, přesně řečeno 6 plus jednu pojízdnou, na kterou můžete narazit kdekoliv😃 Mimo to, kavárna nabízí ke koupi i kávu a spousta jiných kaváren těchto služeb samozřejmě využívá, proto není překvapením, že jsme kávu od Mama Coffee ochutnaly třeba i v Kutné hoře☺️ Mimo kávy můžete samozřejmě sáhnout i po nějakém dobrém zákusku, který mají zrovna v nabídce... ⠀ Celou recenzi najdete na našem blogu 😉👍❤️ ⠀ ⠀ #mamacoffee #prague #recenze #review #coffeeplace #shelf #bookcase #window #stock #counter #architecture #furniture #restaurant #room #cabinet #coffeeblog #blogokave #kavavpraze #kavarna #ilovecoffee #followcoffee #zazitkyna4_recenze #prazskekavarny (v místě Mama Coffee) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzvwcqICf2s/?igshid=1jmzs8nitru9d

[wildadmire]

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[17docintaipei]

#老房子 #travel #Tainan #coffee #igtravel #花樓咖啡 整理昨天環島第四天的故事， 其實還滿多豐富心得的， 來#粉絲團 #17度c的黑夜 ， 看看到底很有哪些321心情隨筆呢？ PS，超有fu的 #花樓followcoffee #igtraveler #blog #17docintaipei #backpackers #travellife #travelstorys #roadtrip #sharelife #環島旅行 #機車環島 （在 花樓/Follow Coffee Green）

[lemony-fresh]

A tasty piece of cake to keep me going #writing #wip #cake #blueberry #violet #delicious #shortstory @followcoffee (at Follow Coffee Co)

[raocafe]

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[amos730716]

❌花樓Follow coffee green❌ - 二訪花樓，不吃甜點來吃新推出的早午餐 超～～～久沒在早上好好吃上一頓了 （咦？！🤔不過好像每天都在吃🤣） - 💮花樓招牌美腿餐💮🅝🅣🅓₂₄₀： 卡滋卡滋的雞腿排，外酥內嫩又Juicy 再搭配著油醋沙拉一起吃光光 這樣一份有飽有滿足🐷 💮花樓經典餐💮🅝🅣🅓₂₃₀： 培根加上德式香腸的經典餐，不僅是老外的最愛，也是我喜歡的，尤其是長長的香腸一條一條進到口中，好吃好過癮😂 夾著吐司配上地瓜薯泥又是不一樣的口感唷！ 💮巧克力起司蛋熱壓黃金吐司💮🅝🅣🅓₆₅： 💮地瓜起司熱壓黃金吐司💮🅝🅣🅓₆₅： 💁🏻‍♂️想要有一點點飽足感的小鳥胃女孩們，兩種口味的熱壓黃金吐司都挺不錯的，拍完照稍微冷掉還可以餒🙈當然東西還是熱熱吃最對味，尤其裡面還有鹹甜香濃的起司🤤 ⚠️早午餐與千層皆限定二店販售 🚫星期一不供應早午餐 - 🌹花樓follow_coffee（一店） 📍台南市中西區民權路二段118號 💈週一至週五08:00~18:00/週六週日09:00~18:00 ☎️06-2211888（提供外送服務） - 🌹花樓Follow coffee green（二店） 📍台南市中西區民權路三段55號 💈平日08:00~17:00/假日09:00~18:00 ☎️06-2210777 - #臺南 #臺南美食 #臺南早午餐 #臺南下午茶 #台南 #台南美食 #台南早午餐 #台南下午茶 #國華街 #國華街美食 #海安路 #中西區 #中西區美食 #花樓 #花樓followcoffee #amos食遍台南 #taiwan #tainan #popyummy #yummyday #igfoodie #igfood #instameettaiwan #instalike #vscolike #brunch #breakfast #afternoontea #2eat2gether #4foodieforfoodie （在 花樓/Follow Coffee Green）

[amos730716]

❌花樓Follow coffee green❌ - 連假最後一天，南部依舊陰雨綿綿 在家分享介紹一下前幾天初訪的花樓二店給各位 當天還意外的巧遇食尚玩家錄影😆 - 💮竹炭鮮奶茶💮🅝🅣🅓₆₅（外帶價） 💮草莓咖啡拿鐵💮🅝🅣🅓₈₀（外帶價） 💮抹茶拿鐵咖啡💮🅝🅣🅓₈₀（外帶價） 💮抹茶紅豆千層💮🅝🅣🅓₁₅₅ 💮芒果千層💮🅝🅣🅓₁₇₀ 💁🏻‍♂️層層疊疊、綿密細緻的千層，哇熊愛！ 搭上當季盛產的芒果，香甜的滋味，齁呦！一個不小心一整塊又吃光了🐷 喜歡抹茶的捧油，也別錯過抹茶紅豆這款唷！ 還有店內的芋泥千層蛋糕，也蠻多人欸推薦的，可惜已售完，只好等下次回訪了🤤 此外漸層三重奏的飲品，無論是歐嚕嚕的竹炭奶還是有著少女Pinky心的草莓拿鐵或是想當綠巨人的抹茶拿鐵，都蠻值得推薦的！小編自己還蠻喜歡竹炭鮮奶茶的 - 🌹花樓follow_coffee（一店） 📍台南市中西區民權路二段118號 💈週一至週五08:00~18:00/週六週日09:00~18:00 ☎️06-2211888（提供外送服務） - 🌹花樓Follow coffee green（二店） 📍台南市中西區民權路三段55號 💈平日08:00~17:00/假日09:00~18:00 ☎️06-2210777 - #臺南 #臺南美食 #臺南早午餐 #臺南甜點 #臺南下午茶 #台南 #台南美食 #台南早午餐 #台南甜點 #台南下午茶 #台南必吃 #千層蛋糕 #拿鐵 #甜點控 #草莓 #抹茶 #芒果 #花樓 #花樓followcoffee #amos食遍台南 #taiwan #tainan #popyummy #yummyday #igfoodie #igfood #instameettaiwan #instalike #vscolike （在 花樓/Follow Coffee Green）

[amos730716]

❌花樓Follow coffee green❌ - 二訪花樓，不吃甜點來吃新推出的早午餐 超～～～久沒在早上好好吃上一頓了 （咦？！🤔不過好像每天都在吃🤣） - 💮花樓招牌美腿餐💮🅝🅣🅓₂₄₀： 卡滋卡滋的雞腿排，外酥內嫩又Juicy 再搭配著油醋沙拉一起吃光光 這樣一份有飽有滿足🐷 💮花樓經典餐💮🅝🅣🅓₂₃₀： 培根加上德式香腸的經典餐，不僅是老外的最愛，也是我喜歡的，尤其是長長的香腸一條一條進到口中，好吃好過癮😂 夾著吐司配上地瓜薯泥又是不一樣的口感唷！ 💮巧克力起司蛋熱壓黃金吐司💮🅝🅣🅓₆₅： 💮地瓜起司熱壓黃金吐司💮🅝🅣🅓₆₅： 💁🏻‍♂️想要有一點點飽足感的小鳥胃女孩們，兩種口味的熱壓黃金吐司都挺不錯的，拍完照稍微冷掉還可以餒🙈當然東西還是熱熱吃最對味，尤其裡面還有鹹甜香濃的起司🤤 ⚠️早午餐與千層皆限定二店販售 🚫星期一不供應早午餐 - 🌹花樓follow_coffee（一店） 📍台南市中西區民權路二段118號 💈週一至週五08:00~18:00/週六週日09:00~18:00 ☎️06-2211888（提供外送服務） - 🌹花樓Follow coffee green（二店） 📍台南市中西區民權路三段55號 💈平日08:00~17:00/假日09:00~18:00 ☎️06-2210777 - #臺南 #臺南美食 #臺南早午餐 #臺南下午茶 #台南 #台南美食 #台南早午餐 #台南下午茶 #國華街 #國華街美食 #海安路 #中西區 #中西區美食 #花樓 #花樓followcoffee #amos食遍台南 #taiwan #tainan #popyummy #yummyday #igfoodie #igfood #instameettaiwan #instalike #vscolike #brunch #breakfast #afternoontea #2eat2gether #4foodieforfoodie （在 花樓/Follow Coffee Green）

[lemony-fresh]

A chance to pause and reflect before work @followcoffee #coffee #v60 #relax #chill #makingplans #reflect (at Follow Coffee Co)

[lemony-fresh]

Coffee, Props and Practise shots #coffee #props #script #shortfilm #excited @followcoffee (at Follow Coffee Co)