I live in London.

If you work in finance (City or Canary Wharf) you might get that treatment from recruiters. See, as a contractor, you are going to make a lot of money and a part of it is going directly to the recruiting agency so you're definitely going to get some free coffees.

I imagine you could have that too in Shoreditch if you're like the special one.

I also live in London and can fortunately say that my experiences are more in line with the author's than yours.