Deep — Restaurant in Marseille

Used to be the best place for specialty coffee in Marseille. Nowadays, service is arctic cold (if not pretentious) and coffee is average - the espresso machine isn’t cleaned regularly and you can taste it.

Sadly, the lack of care from management is apparent - from the worn down interior to the empty retail shelves, topped by the distant service by a regularly changing team - this is a disappointment.

“Location, location, location” right? Seems like deep relies a little too much on this and stopped caring about their customers’ experience some time ago.

Thankfully, new shops with better experiences are popping up around Marseille - would recommend Les Lumières and Pétrin Couchette.

I’m not one to pull down on independant businesses, but when customers are taken for granted is the moment more accountability is needed. Hope this place can be great again - will follow up in...

Remarkably rude guy who may have been the owner. Two of us were there about 30 minutes drinking coffee and working through emails when he approached our table and announced we’d have to leave after an hour. The place was less than half full. I then asked if he’d be ok if we kept ordering coffees as we had planned, and he said dismissively, “I’d like to say no, but I guess you could stay in that case.” With that gracious sentiment we decided we didn’t want to give them any more business so we found a more friendly coffee shop (called...

I prefer the moist muffin over the dried hazelnut biscuit with slightly moist chocolate and dough. The muffin is moist, rich with generous portions of blueberry. It is delicious. The biscuit feels like it should have been a moist biscuit but it dried up. It does have quite a lot of hazelnuts on top and chocolate chips inside though.

The flat white is pretty good. They serve a brunch style menu too. Try to come early, the kitchen can close early (2pm) if there are too...