Coffee Coffee was a caffeinated beverage made from the roasted seed s 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 café s , and could also be made in instant coffee machine s 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 " ) Ace ordered four bacon sandwich es and a cup of coffee at a cafe in Shoreditch . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) 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 was one of two things that made Miss Quill ' s life on Earth bearable . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) While serving as assistant to the Doctor at St Luke ' s University , Nardole added a " bit of coffee " to the Doctor ' s tea to " give it some flavour " . ( TV : " Thin Ice " ) 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 II 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 " ) The Tenth Doctor thought the coffee on Askenflatt Major was better than at the Warp Hotel on Askenflatt Minor , but not the tea . ( PROSE : " The Hero Factor " ) 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 " )