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Fed up with being unable to get a cup of coffee in London to meet their high standards, Australian siblings Andrew, Laura and Nick Tolley launched Taylor Street Baristas.

This month they brought their brand, established in 2006, to Canary wharf.

STARBUCKS
Praline mocha, £2.95
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
It might come in a festive red cup but this one's too sweet, unless you happen to like that sort of thing, of course.

If you're anything like me, you'll turn up at the counter of any of the innumerable coffee chains on the Wharf, bark a series of weird codewords at the person serving (sorry, barista after they've been called to the espresso machine) and wait with some impatience until finally you're handed a cardboard cup with a plastic lid.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

Over the past year or so, I've held a number of coffee mornings on Saturdays, to give local people an opportunity to voice their concerns and exchange ideas on crime and anti-social behaviour.

The decision to organise such events stems from the large amount of casework I receive in respect of these kind of problems.

Administrators have shut down Canary Wharf's Coffee Republic outlet as they continue to look for a buyer for the stricken chain.

The Cabot Place West shop closed two days after the company announced it had gone bust. It was one of ten of the 20 Coffee Republic-owned stores to go, resulting in the loss of 66 jobs.

Falling consumer spending has been blamed for Coffee Republic's descent into administration.

The high street chain announced the news on Tuesday, and job losses appear likely as administrators sift through the performance of each individual coffee shop.

• POWDER POWER: We love our coffee here at The Wharf, but we love our pennies too so we thought we'd dip our crooked pinkie into the weird world of the instant specialist coffee.

Of the many, we opted for Nescafe's Cafe Menu Cappuchino in the hope, rather than expectation, that we could consign those £3 Starbucks specials to the bin.