Originally Posted by
MflyerCVG
After traveling to Ireland and Australia in March, I've been at a loss where to find a proper cup of drip coffee.
I can't believe I'm saying this but McDonald's has drip-style coffee. (Don't kill me, please.
I don't touch anything else at McD's, honest!) Many of them are expanding with cafe add-ons and espresso-style coffee, but the "regular" McD's coffee is drip. And it's consistent - if you don't like it in America, you won't like it here.
Originally Posted by
thegeneral
I didn't find a lot of good coffee in Aus. I've fought about this topic with people from there many times. You'll commonly find instant coffee there in many places. The people on here dispute this, but the figures from the coffee associations in Australia show that the majority ~80% of coffee drank in that country is instant. You might want to hunt around for one of the alleged coffee shops. Hopefully you'll be in a bigger city.
Way out of date - as jackal said, every town has restaurants and coffee shops with espresso machines and people who can run them. It's not hard to find good take-away coffee. In a hotel room, yeah, you're probably going to find instant. And there's a lot of instant coffee in offices, homes, church halls, sports grounds, picnics, dive boats and so on, but any half-decent restaurant will have an espresso machine or, at minimum, a French press.