In summary: They have some really good sweets and pastries (with a "but" discussed below), their coffee is high quality but needs some dialing in. My main gripes are the smoking which really fills the place up, and some things when it comes to the food and ordering it.
Going in the early morning, this place is great, its almost empty and very quite and nice. A little bit later as the place starts getting more crowded, people start smoking on the upper level and the entire coffeeshop gets a very strong cigarette smell, which will linger on your clothes even if you are sitting downstairs. The strong AC only makes you cold, but doesnt remove the smell effectively at all. The seats arent the most comfortable, especially the slippery leather ones, but are tolerable
Coffee (espresso) wise, it takes a lot of trail and error to find a blend with low enough acidity to be enjoyable without a lot of milk, the labels dont seem very accurate, or perhaps the grinding is not dialed in right (too fine), or the espresso machine is dialed in to a high pressure. I don't know.
The food is really delicious and especially the pastry, although when asking for a description of the sweets, you are seldom given correct information (like fillings). When ordering something like a croissant or bagel with omlet and cheese, you get a very small omlet with a lot of strong yellow cheese, so disproportionate that the taste doesnt work out
Staff wise, they are very friendly, so...
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Read moreUnfortunately, with all the meaning of sorry to give this rating for Almond Coffee Rabyeh branch I have been buying grounded coffee for Espresso machine from Almond coffee for almost 2 month now, the coffee it self it is perfect, to be honest, Coffee, food and everything is pretty good actually, but lately two time in a row issues made me gave this rating, first, ungrounded coffee within the grounded coffee, which makes me have to filter the coffee before tamping it second, after ordering the coffee espresso grind that i usually get, i received an extra fine grounded coffee, they tried to solve this by sending a newly grounded coffee to me but also it was really fine, even the espresso shot not going out after a minute , then after I contact them, they mentioned that they have modified the grinder, which caused this issue and they are going to now grinded as intended to be, but i have to pay for the delivery which is around the same new order from Careem, therefore, with all sadness i am giving this rating... this doesn't mean that they didn't help me, I really thank the employee who followed up with me, really appreciated but this rating is my experience
They contacted me again, and send it with their...
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