The long black: will this soon be the UK’s favourite coffee order?

Fans of the drink, brewed differently from an americano, say its taste is vastly superior – and are turning a niche product into a bestsellerIf you’re a regular at specialist coffee shops in the UK – the kind where baristas carefully weigh out your grounds on tiny hypersensitive scales and practically frogmarch you from the premises if you order syrup – you may have noticed that americanos have fallen out of favour. In these fancier coffee spots, everyone’s dependab