Coffee Mill Restaurant — Restaurant in Fredericton

A few weeks back i went to this place.

I have only been here for breakfast and it wasnt bad, what made it good was our server.

This time i took my teen for lunch. I would highly recommend the fish and chips good price $16 and can be shared with 2 people. (Wish we had known) My daughter ordered poutine, she ordered it with turkey gravy. BIG MISTAKE. stick with the beef. She suffers with adhd, anxiety and depression so making decisions is hard but I let her. Hoping it would be a good meal.. Anyway I asked for it to be changed as the gravy wasn't good. We didn't like it.

They did not happily change it but they changed it saying I would have to pay for the order, because i cant "just not like it". Ok fine I don't want to put my daughter through any anxiety. They served us the beef gravy which was way better but this time it was completely covered in gravy. Not like the turkey which had a decent amount, this was like soup on fries. She enjoyed what she could and had to stop because it was way to much gravy. I even scooped some out but it didn't make a difference the fries were soggy.

For me it was my server that just didn't seem as happy as she was when we first came into the establishment. She barely smiled or made eye contact until I paid the bill of $71 including tip. When using debit machine they ask for TIP FIRST. Just realized the gravy with my fish and chips was $2.50. Argh. I also wanted my gravy changed. I should have just not replaced the order and just ate the fish and chips.

So for me that made this experience not feel good at all. We make mistakes and so do our kids but as servers you have to shake it off. Make the customer not feel like they did something wrong. Smile and say its OK...

Wish I took photos of the dishes i usually do but wanted to keep this a relaxed lunch with my daughter. Only photo I have is...

I used to swing by Coffee Mill all the time — until I realized half my life was evaporating in their drive thru line. I still maintain they pull the best latte in Fredericton, hands down — but is it worth giving up my mornings for? Not really.

Last Saturday, stomach growling, I figured I’d roll the dice. Only two cars! I sped-read their novella of a menu when I got my glimpse before the speaker asked me for my order, spotted "bagel," "chipotle," "chicken," and locked in my usual latte. I knew ordering food here is basically volunteering to park and wait — even for a latte sometimes — but I had nowhere better to be.

Sure enough, I did my time in the penalty spot and a friendly lady handed me my brown bag. The latte? Chef’s kiss. I got home, unwrapped my breakfast like a kid at Christmas — only to find a bacon croissant and some ham thing I can’t even eat if I wanted to. Back in the car I went, still weirdly calm.

I explained the mix-up. The nice lady apologized — no biggie. But then the cashier decided he was auditioning for Worst Customer Service 2025. "What bagel?" he barked, again and again — meaning what kind of bagel — while I kept muttering "chicken chipotle" like a broken record, both of us talking past each other. It got old fast. No “sorry for wasting your morning,” no free latte to say "our bad" — not that I’d want it since I only drink one a day — nothing.

Got my replacement bag — gave it a quick squeeze like a detective counting clues and felt smug they at least got the count right this time. Got home (again). Opened it: a burnt bagel with a sad little chicken nugget and a smear of chipotle sauce doing its best to be breakfast. Not quite what I imagined, but at this point we we're getting into food hermeneutics, whatever — I just ate it. Best latte in town, worst drive thru. Pick...

Went back to the coffee mill for the first time in years thinking it was going to be delicious like it was when I used to go.

Unfortunately, we were served a rotting avocado upside down. Once you move the sliced pieces it was black inside. Asked to get it replaced. They came by and said oh that shouldn't have been served and then served another rotting avocado just slightly less.

They claimed that's how they get them off the truck.

Got a skillet that I asked for. No ham ended up getting about a quarter of the skillet worth of ham and everything was cold.

I've never left a bad review anywhere before, but after spending $50 for rotting food and having the cost of a small orange juice compensated. When that was one the cheapest thing we got and two the only good thing that we got that was fresh/not spoiled and actually the correct temperature.

Now we both are feeling sick/ nauseous, haven't been there in about 5 years except for today and will...