Loppokaffeeexpress café, roasting — Restaurant in Kiel

Location is cool. Coffee is of good quality, but I think the roasters suffer from having to cater to second-wave espresso based tastes of their local clientele. I bought their Kongo and Ethiopian single-origins and they were beautifully selected. Whoever is sourcing knows excellent coffee. Unfortunately the roasting killed what I know are excellent beans. They consistently go darker than they should because these locals both roasters and clients are raised on darker roast profiles by default. I think they may be cautious. They must think that if they were to give a fruity, complex, full profile coffee to their clientele, they would not have customers and be treated like a curiosity. Excellent raw product, but they need to step-up...

This was one of my must visit place in Kiel when I planned my trip to Kiel, As a coffee addict, I read quite a lot about this shop and was really excited to go there, but it wasn't quite upto the expectations. For a moment I thought it was Robusta beans, unfortunately it was Arabica and the coffee tasted really bad. May be because of cornoa, shop might be messy, but it was too noisy to sit and talk inside. There coffee shop guy was friendly, I had few questions and he was kind and patient enough to answer those questions. To be honest, what the website says and what I got are...

I came in on a Sunday for a coffee and there was only one barista. The coffee was good, but it felt weird without any table service or staff paying attention to customers. Maybe I am spoiled but I prefer table service especially when you charge high prices. I do have to add I am used to Melbourne hospitality and it seems to have set a high bar.

Coffee was good and in comparison to other coffee places it's good. For no table service I simply find the prices too high, working in the coffee industry I know the prices and this appears too high without having the...