Mac’s Coffee - Reading

Walk into Mac's on Castle Street and you'll clock immediately that this isn't trying to be anything other than what it is: a genuinely good coffee shop. The kind of place where the person behind the counter knows their extraction times and doesn't treat your flat white like it's a afterthought. You're in the heart of Reading's town centre here, so it's brilliant for ducking in between shopping on Broad Street or grabbing something before heading up to the Forbury. The 4.9 rating from hundreds of reviews tells you people aren't messing about—they come back because the coffee's consistent and they're not being charged London prices for it.