These days, that once-bleak strip thrives with cafes, Victorian-style street lamps and sprightly coffee joints.

It also has almost as many coffee joints and cafes to sit and read in.

It turned out that "www.finegrind.net" was available, astonishing because a Web nationwide yellow page look-up had turned up dozens of similarly named coffee joints.

The coffee joints are littered with laptops and grown women deep in conversation.

Darby Street has cute interiors shops, designer boutiques and more good coffee joints than one street deserves.

There was this coffee joint.

Later, the Coffee Board decided to start a coffee joint from the Albert Hall in 1942.

In an ideal world, you'd be able to take a travel mug to every coffee joint and get a few pence off for being environmentally conscious.

When in a coffee joint I usually say, "Smalltea, please."

They'd left Warbaby drinking herbal tea in some kind of weird coffee joint because he said he needed to think.