Coffee was a caffeinated beverage made from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, native to the planet Earth. According to the Third Doctor Benton made the second best cup of coffee in the universe, after Elisabeth Pepys. Benton attributed his success to the temperature of the water he used. (TV: Planet of the Spiders) Coffees were accessible in cafés, and could also be made in instant coffee machines.
Much like tea, coffee was often served with milk and sugar. The Ninth Doctor took his coffee with milk but no sugar. Coffee was often served with breakfast. Amy Pond once drank coffee for breakfast. (TV: Rose, The Sea Devils, PROSE: The Coming of the Terraphiles)
Clifford Jones patronised Jo Grant when she first met him by telling her to go and make some coffee. She asked him sarcastically if a cup of arsenic would do. (TV: The Green Death) The Third Doctor treated Sarah Jane Smith the same way when they first met, asking her to "make [herself] useful" and make coffee. She informed him that he she would not be spending her time fetching coffee and so the Doctor made himself a cup. (TV: The Time Warrior)
The Second Doctor often preferred coffee to tea. He once struggled through a cup of UNIT's AAFI tea that he called "execrable" and later found an abandoned cup of cold coffee, drinking it with relish. (PROSE: The Invasion)
Coffee still existed in the year 100 trillion. Professor Yana hoped that the coffee would be "a little less sour" on Utopia. (TV: Utopia)
Types of coffee
- In his youth, Admiral Issac Summerfield, Bernice's father carried a cezve with him all the time for the purpose of preparing Turkish coffee. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad)
- Later in life, Admiral Summerfield ran a coffee shop in England and specialised in espresso. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad)
- In 21st century London the Eleventh Doctor ordered a cappuccino for himself and Clara Oswald. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)
- Bernice Summerfield usually drank tea, but did make herself several cups of Sumatran coffee whilst waiting for the Doctor in his house in Kent. (PROSE: The Dying Days)
- Caffy, a caffeinated drink similar to coffee, was drunk by some of the residents of the City of Hope. (PROSE: Hope)
Drugging coffee
The Cybermen poisoned the sugar used in the coffee drunk on the Moonbase. (TV: The Moonbase)
On Telos, Kaftan drugged Victoria Waterfield's coffee. (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen)
Lance Bennett made Donna Noble's coffee with water laced with Huon particles. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
Doyle, a cyber controlled police officer, was ordered to kill the Sixth Doctor with cyanide-laced coffee. (AUDIO: The Reaping)
