cafecafe - urban eats & coffee — Restaurant in Cologne

When we arrived, the place was packed, so we knew that we would have to wait longer than usual. No problem. The drinks (a smoothie and frappé) were delicious. However, when it came to the food and the actual time they took to prepare it, our positive experience quickly degraded. Before ordering, I was informed that there was no more focaccia bread for my focaccia sandwich with mozzarella, tomato pesto, and parma ham. Stuff runs out, so no problem. After waiting for 1h5m, with several other parties already eating (some arriving almost 30 minutes later than we did!), a waiter tells me there is no more mozzarella. Just wanting my sandwich at this point, I tell them it is no problem, again. When the food finally arrives, my sandwich is nowhere near what it should look like of course, but I have chosen for this myself (too hungry). My girlfriend, however, did not agree to an undercooked grilled cheese! The grated cheese inside was absolutely not melted, which was a real shame. After this wait, the least you could have done was to melt the cheese on a grilled cheese! A welcome gesture would have been to cut some of the price for the missing ingredients and poor execution. Instead, we did not even...

I was the one who insisted to have a take away, as we never made to have any dine in, on that busy Saturday noon. My two charming cavaliers waited faithfully in the car across the street, as there was no way to come in and have a seat in that venue, so I did my best to pick the right stuffs home. After some tiny little chaos between the staffs, I left the hectic and carried the cake bag home filled with:

Carrot Cheesecake - I won my darling's heart once again. New York Cheesecake - what a refined and generous piece! Apple Cheesecake - less in size but bigger in flavor

As a little surprise and for the sake of our latest trip to Lisbon the other day, I took a Pastel de Belém (Pastéis de Nata) which turned to be a nice copy of the one we got in Belém.

We gonna surely come back! Maybe for some nice cuppa Coffee and Hot Chocs with delish breads and mighty...

Coffee: average (3/5) Food freshness: below average (2/5) Food taste: average (3/5) Menu variety: above average (4/5) plenty of different kinds of summer drinks and vegan options etc Service: poor (1/5) we waited over 35 minutes for 2 cooked eggs on stale bread and a bagel sandwich which was over toasted / extra dry. Price: expensive (2/5) paid almost 16 euros for one small bagel sandwich and 2 eggs on bread with 2 coffees(1 small cap, 1 double espresso) The raw material costs around 5 euros in my estimation, that’s a personal “no-no” for me if I have to experience extremely long wait times for average food which is inexpensive to serve but is over priced.

Staff: (4/5)

Very friendly but we waited a long time to be served even though there weren’t...