What's 'check by jowel' and what's a Costa? Is Costa a large department store?

Side by side? Inside?


>What's the status when the poshest, most touristy part of town has a Starbucks right opposite a Nero (narrow olde worlde street that is) and cheek by jowel with a Costa, as Brighton (UK) has?
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>>You know your town has arrived when it gets its first Starbucks ;-)
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>>>What is the make and model of that device? :o) Being a coffee connoisseur, I am always interested in an easy means of making GOOD coffee (especially espresso) at home! I used to have a small GE espress machine, but it got old. There is a Starbucks now that recently opened 10 minutes from my home as well and I pretty much live in the boonies :o)
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