9th Street Coffee Roasters — Restaurant in Municipality of Olaya

9th Street Coffee Roasters "Simple, light-filled coffee shop featuring both hot & iced specialty coffees, plus sweet treats."

Good morning, Riyadh, Congratulations 🎊 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 confirmed as 2034 World Cup host: FIFA.

I arrive at 9th Street Coffee Roasters at 6 AM. Thursday,12th December 2024. After a brief chat with the expert barista, Mr. Indesh Jimee from Nepal 🇳🇵 with over 3 years experience 😀 I have the go-ahead to take pictures and videos for my review.

The Café is bright with lots of natural light and has nice seating. The aesthetic design and colors are reminiscent of modern elegance combined with a traditional touch.

The espresso brewed with Ethiopia GUJI coffee beans with a cup flavor profile of strawberry and mango and has a rich crema with a full-bodied medium-roast and a hint of bittersweet taste. My rating is 9 out of 10.

The hot drip coffee V60, brewed by hand skillfully by Mr. Indesh, with Ethiopia ADADO coffee beans, a nice syrupy volume, and a cup flavor profile of floral and fruit sweetness, jasmine, peach, and guava, the medium-roast giving it a nice feel. My rating is 10 out of 10.

The flat white prepared with Blend Street Colors (a premium blend of coffee beans from Burundi 🇧🇮 and Brazil). The first sip defines the taste and flavor, and if it stays true till the last sip, then my rating is a perfect 10 out of 10. (The roast was perfect, the skills of barista, ratio of espresso to latter spot on ... hmmm...oh yum! oh wow!).

The milk chocolate, paired with the espresso, had a well-balanced sweetness. My rating is 9 out of 10.

The Mille-Nutella nice crispy layers of wafers and nutella served with drip coffee V60 enhanced the flavors and taste beautifully 😋 my rating is 9 out of 10.

The savory cheddar cheese croissant (out of line bakery) was soft, fresh, fluffy, warm, and with sumptuous taste and flavor. My rating is 9 out of 10.

Overall rating is 9 out of 10.

An unforgettable and memorable experience of my food journey in search of the best cafés, bakeries, and restaurants.

Fun fact: The world’s first coffee house opened in Turkey in 1475. The first known coffee house was established in 1475 in Istanbul, Turkey. The coffee house, known as “Kiva Han,” served a wide variety of coffee drinks that had been brought to the city by traders from Yemen, Ethiopia, and other parts of the world.

Another fun coffee fact: Coffee houses have always been about more than just the coffee!

Kiva Han also featured a variety of other activities and became known as a place where intellectuals, politicians, poets, writers, and philosophers were able to discuss news and ideas, write, share stories and debate. This type of coffee culture still exists today, with coffee shops still serving as a popular gathering place where people can come together to share a drink and...

Meh.

Shouting the order over and over is not a good strategy to deliver orders. 3 people ordered the same thing, latte, we don't know each other and every customer is setting at one corner of the cafe, and the person who's order was read was listening to some music. They told us that they're forbidden from crossing their bar and handing us the orders at our tables.

Our order, latte, cookies, and marble cake, was finally ready for "pickup" at the cashier. Remember, we ordered dine in, the food was meh. Meh indeed. The latte tasted like they've poured Matcha in the same cup over and over until the new latte tasted wired and had a trace taste of Matcha. The cookies are one of the most meh cookies I've ever tasted. Too doughy, too sugary, burnt from one half, and the other one is under cooked, and even the shape is not close to a circle. Looks like if the raw dough was punshed on the pan. The marble cake is meh too. Not enough sugar, doughy, and tasted bland. I don't think they put any salt in it. If you know bakery, you know that you need to put salt in pound cakes.

They got speedy wifi, and the air conditioning kept it comfortable, but it made a wired ticking sound.

Riyadh is a huge city, I don't think I'd return any time soon. Best of luck to the owners....

Maybe if you’re a coffee nerd and love the art, you’ll appreciate the coffee.

However, they’re a bit…..”different”. They don’t have the classic drinks on the menu like a cappuccino or latte. That’s as far as the product.

Atmosphere: it’s a tiny place, and the chairs and cups are, also. It’s like when you walk into a kindergarten class and see their chairs and cups. Didn’t hear any music after it before salah (which makes the place extreeeemly awkward for any convo. I’m not sure if they even have wifi, didn’t ask, but also didn’t see their name on the wifi search.

Conclusion: I think if you’re an extreme coffee nerd, don’t care about atmposphere, this...