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Where to find the best coffee around campus
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Laura Katzer
Issue date: 4/21/08 Section: Culture
The latte was nice too. It had a good, rich coffee flavor that carried through the milk. The steamed milk was a nice temperature but the bubbles were overly large. The latte was moderately priced and was average with the other coffeehouses.
Grade: B+
On the menu:
Double espresso $1.00
Latte, 12oz. $2.75
The Roasterie Café
6223 Brookside Blvd.
The Roasterie Café is a sleek and fairly new addition to the Brookside landscape. It's also a very welcome one. The café is compact and indoor seating is limited but when the weather is nice they have great outdoor seating. They have all the nice coffeehouse perks of copious magazines, newspapers, community info, free Wi-Fi and a well-rounded collection of board games.
The Roasterie Café has a full menu for every craving and they serve killer brewed coffee. They even have a Clover machine to make singly extracted cups of brewed coffee for flavor fanatics.
I knew I walked into the café on a good day when the barista said the espresso was awesome. And awesome it was. My double espresso was sweet, candy-like, syrupy and went down smooth and bitter. It had good body and a lingering aftertaste. Not all espresso is that good all the time even at The Roasterie Café. It was well-crafted shot and the product of all the elements being correctly aligned by the barista.
The latte was particularly pretty with an elegant leaf of latte art decorating the top. It tasted as pretty as it looked.
The menu prices at The Roasterie Café are a little higher all-around than other local coffee shops. They do, however, offer a student discount of 20 percent off after 6 p.m.
Grade: A-
On the menu:
Double espresso $1.80
Latte, 12oz. $3.05
Coffee Break
5400 Troost Ave.
While the Oak Street Coffee Shop reminds me of an old-fashioned, second-hand shop, the aura of Coffee Break is of a groovy thrift shop or attic. The furnishings and décor do not even try to match.
Grade: B+
On the menu:
Double espresso $1.00
Latte, 12oz. $2.75
The Roasterie Café
6223 Brookside Blvd.
The Roasterie Café is a sleek and fairly new addition to the Brookside landscape. It's also a very welcome one. The café is compact and indoor seating is limited but when the weather is nice they have great outdoor seating. They have all the nice coffeehouse perks of copious magazines, newspapers, community info, free Wi-Fi and a well-rounded collection of board games.
The Roasterie Café has a full menu for every craving and they serve killer brewed coffee. They even have a Clover machine to make singly extracted cups of brewed coffee for flavor fanatics.
I knew I walked into the café on a good day when the barista said the espresso was awesome. And awesome it was. My double espresso was sweet, candy-like, syrupy and went down smooth and bitter. It had good body and a lingering aftertaste. Not all espresso is that good all the time even at The Roasterie Café. It was well-crafted shot and the product of all the elements being correctly aligned by the barista.
The latte was particularly pretty with an elegant leaf of latte art decorating the top. It tasted as pretty as it looked.
The menu prices at The Roasterie Café are a little higher all-around than other local coffee shops. They do, however, offer a student discount of 20 percent off after 6 p.m.
Grade: A-
On the menu:
Double espresso $1.80
Latte, 12oz. $3.05
Coffee Break
5400 Troost Ave.
While the Oak Street Coffee Shop reminds me of an old-fashioned, second-hand shop, the aura of Coffee Break is of a groovy thrift shop or attic. The furnishings and décor do not even try to match.
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Jennifer
posted 4/22/08 @ 11:07 AM CST
Nice article. :)
I love reading about local coffee shops. Although I could have sworn there was an article just like this a year or two ago...I only remember because I made a comment on that one too. (Continued…)
Kaye Johnston
Kaye
posted 4/26/08 @ 5:59 PM CST
I really like the article and don't have a problem with a new article update on local coffee shops once a year. I agree with most of the reviews except for one. (Continued…)
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