When is a coffee not coffee

During convalescence the family with Parents in law family went to London. There where lots of things visited, London Eye, London Museum, London zoo, visits to pubs, general London stuff (the West end show we saw was Room on the broom - well worth going by the way).

Anyways, at some point Beau Pere was a bit fed up with the food and says to me ''I'll have a coffee, an espresso thanks. - As close as possible to a French coffee'' So off I trot to the counter in Star Bucks and get an espresso. "What's this?" he says, it is black, smells of coffee and is small, this is not like a French coffee.