Cocoa Café — Restaurant in Oslo

This place has some nice features. You can order from the outside through a small window (and get whatever you ordered while you wait outside) and the inside atmosphere is nice and cosy. I've been here three time now, each time choosing a different cup of coco hoping that this one would be good, but none of them were.

I'm not sure why this place is so highly rated, for a coco shop that seems to base their entire business on coco it seems weird that they use powdered coco with pre made flavors.

Want a good coconut coco? Just make some real coco at home from pure coco powder and milk, let it heat up and add some shredded coconut. This tastes good, it tastes like something I would expect from a coco shop, instead I got pre made powder in a cup. There are many places in Oslo that makes their coco from scratch, all of them serve better coco than this coco shop. This is especially weird since you can make a large amount of coco, keep in a pot and just add some say coconut to the cup if a customer wants that.

The last time I had the Mexican (the tex) coco, it tasted like a cup of soy milk and tex mex powder, I'm sure that if I had asked people to taste that coco and tell me what's in it most would not have even detected that there was coco in there.

But I love the concept and the staff is friendly, all they have to do is to start making real coco and stop with the pre made powders. It's not that hard, I'll be coming back in a while to see if they have finally started to be a coco shop instead of a powder shop pretending to be...

This was a cute little cafe, and perfect to get away from the wind and snow! I got in just in time to grab a table; it's a very small cafe, but with a nice little fireplace and well decorated.

I just had a coffee and piece of carrot cake. There were only two members of staff, however, given the size of the place, my order seemed to take an age to come. I'm also pretty sure a few customers (families) who came in after me got there order before me (though this doesn't bother me too much), but there were a couple of other tables who also kept looking to the counter.

However, I would still recommend coming here, especially to relax for a bit. I've never been a barista so don't want to give them too much stick about the timing. I was happy chilling and taking in the...

Update: I went there to work in early January, with a goal of focusing while sipping on cocoa. It gradually became more crowded.

A woman came in with a child and asked that I be moved to a different table to accommodate her, where it would have been impossible to work. That was annoying, but not that unusual in Oslo. What was more annoying was that the worker obliged.

I refused to move, but felt awkward enough from the experience that I left soon after.

Places get crowded. Sometimes there isn’t room for everyone. Having a kid doesn’t give you a right to make other people move.

I’m still pretty annoyed by the experience and haven’t been back since.

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Cool concept and tasty cocoa. It’s kid friendly, but I’ve found it to also be friendly to quiet,...