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 such as the one Ian Warne and Nikolai Hermack employed on their ship, V-41. (TV: The Space Pirates)
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. Annoyed, she asked him sarcastically and a touch maliciously if a cup of arsenic would do, but Jones was too absorbed in his work to pay attention to her or catch the jab at his rude attitude. (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) This incarnation was more enthusiastic with coffee than food; he demonstrated a casual need for nourishment but a desire for coffee. When only a coffee pellet was available he accepted on the grounds that it was "better than nothing." (TV: The Wheel in Space)
In Mercy in 1870, Abraham offered the Eleventh Doctor a cup of fresh coffee. (TV: A Town Called Mercy)
The Vortisaur Ramsay "objected" to the taste of coffee after the Eighth Doctor poured some in Ramsay's mouth to free Rathbone from its grasp on board the R101. The coffee was served hot by Chief Steward Weeks, and scalded Rathbone's skin. (AUDIO: Storm Warning)
Whilst in Glasgow, the Twelfth Doctor suggested him and his companion Clara Oswald could grab some chips and coffee. Although Clara declined to have chips, she agreed on coffee. (TV: Deep Breath)
In the West Country Children's Home in the mid-1990s, the Twelfth Doctor questioned Reg on how sometimes when everybody's coffee was put down and they looked around, it wasn't there. When Reg looked around, both the Doctor and the mug of coffee was gone. In fact, the Doctor had taken the coffee to drink it. (TV: Listen)
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 Isaac 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)
Tanya Lernov offered the Second Doctor a coffee pellet on Space Station W3. (TV: The Wheel in Space)
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)
