I usually try and use a smaller place, non-chain, if possible. There was a place in Bermondsey near where I used to live called ****offe. I liked going there because of the name. But I don't mind using any of them really. Maybe if I was given a choice of Starbucks or Costa I would choose Costa...
Did you read the article? Does that make you one of the "smug, tedious, needlessly-reverent, jazz xylophone-playing, coffee-fetishising hipster dullards that have taken the place of the pushchairs"?