Seattle Coffee - Melrose — Restaurant in Gauteng

The buying coffee culture in South Africa is quite well developed now, especially among upper to middle class folks. As such, there has been a proliferation of coffee shops and coffee houses, with Starbucks being the latest entrant into the market here.

With all this competition, Seattle coffee stands out due to the consistent quality of it's coffee, the enduring friendliness of it's staff (at the Melrose Arch branch anyway), and the variety of coffees and other drinks that they offer.

My experience thus far has been pleasant, I do not mind forking out money for their coffee because I know what I will experience is 300ml of...

It inside Melrose Arch on the left if you're coming in from Corlett Drive. The coffee is Great , staff is great, the little hole 🕳️ in the wall feel and the wooden decking you have to climb onto to order is fun for me every time. BUT if you're coming from outside, if you don't work there PARKING take longer than ordering and getting you coffee and it destroys all the fun of buying a seattle cuppacino. Times I just have to leave after driving around 10 min looking for parking.... They need a curbside sort of drive through or something if they gonna see...

I find it ridiculous that Seattle Advertises and pushes customers to buy more coffee's with the incentive of getting a free 11th coffee, but when you want to redeem it, the system is constantly "offline" to redeem. After being a loyal Seattle customer for years, this obvious avoidance of a loyalty reward by the Melrose branch has me questioning whether I will ever support this branch again. Not likely. Don't advertise something if you're not able or...