The coffee bean is not exactly glamorous. Yet the source of refreshment for the age of Steele and Addison, as well as for the brasher, more urgent civilisation of today, must obviously have some compulsive social charm. For the coffee bar world that it brought into existence after the war has recently sprouted a further extension – the coffee dance club.
In the last three years several of these clubs have opened in the centre of Manchester. Except for alcohol, they provide all the requisite ingredients for an instant party, have memberships ranging between 350 and 16,500, and are apparently here to stay.
