Those who know me tend to think I am somewhat of a coffee snob - although in my head I usually disagree. I think that I know far less about good coffee than an actual 'snob' would - I just happen to like it a lot. Yesterday, however, I truly felt like a snob. Mark and I decided to go check out the new coffee shop in St. Catharines, Coffee culture, because it is in a beautiful building, the premise sounded good, and I needed a place for caffeinated studying (my living room doesn't cut it sometimes).
WOW does that place ever suck. I was so impressed walking in (it is a beautiful looking place) - and then had to wait 10 minutes for my turn to order, not because they were busy, but because the two employees had to both ring in the orders, make the food/drinks, bring them out to tables rather than have one person on cash and the other making the food. Perhaps I am too used to other coffee shops? The set up was just really, really illogical. And yes, I know that sometimes in life you have to wait, especially for deliciousness - so I was hoping that my eventual coffee would be delicious!
... And it wasn't! After seeing an automatic espresso machine (=push a button, get a latte), Mark and I both decided to just get the organic, fair trade drip coffee. This turned out to be a pretty bad idea. Does anyone remember when fair trade coffee first entered the market? It was terrible. People who felt too guilty to drink regular coffee were the only ones drinking it, because if taste buds entered the equation at all, there was no way a coffee drinker would touch that stuff. Since then, fair trade coffees have come a long way and are as good, and usually better than most coffees, thanks to a big fancy coffee/know your farmer movement. I think coffee culture has managed to find the last remaining bags of the old, hideous stuff. Our coffees tasted like they had been sitting out in a dirty pot for about 6 hours.
If someone in St. Catharines starts up a good coffee shop, I swear that I will keep it afloat.
PS - my living room is looking better - Mark just made me a brownie latte!
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beantree's is supposed to be great, say tanner and kate (rhymeeeeee!).
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enjoy!
For some reason there are two Coffee Cultures within a few blocks of each other here in London. I don't mind the coffee, but the only real reason I go there is because they have free wireless internet. It's pretty dumb that Starbucks still doesn't have that.
Jaime - that is good news!
And Phronk, I think the Sbucks is doing free wireless now, but only two hours/day and only with a starbucks card. It is a silly silly holdout.
I miss toronto, land of awesome cafes with free wireless. As for the CC coffee, I'm guessing it was a really bad batch, but I still don't think I'll be going back.
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