Lone Pine Coffee Roasters — Restaurant in Bend

One of 2 coffee shops in Bend deserving 5 stars. As good or better drip coffee than I’ve had anywhere. I come to Bend 5 to 8 times a year and I always go to Lone Pine at least twice. Any nits I have should not take away from 5 star rating. Coffee is complex with subtle flavors. They change variety of coffee served often (daily or more?), but it is always good. If you want knock your socks off, powerful dark roast coffee, this isn’t the place to go. I can’t comment on espresso drinks. Pastries are good but limited. They sometimes run out of choices late in the morning, but they seem never to run out of waffles. People taking orders are mostly friendly- some extremely nice. Seating is usually adequate, but can be crowded at times. They have some tables outside on shady side of building. Also they open a garage style door in warm weather. Door is mostly glass so there is a good view of outside such as it is even with the door closed. They play a variety of music at a volume that allows for conversation. I know taste in music is subjective, I like most of what they play but sometimes have a little too many plaintive wailing songs. I buy a bag of beans to take home on every trip. Their bags aren’t vacuum sealed, but the coffee has always been fresh enough. I put the beans in a container designed to keep out air when I get home. Ok, had to drop rating to 4 stars. The music has just become too insipidly annoying. For my tastes this place has just been in a slow decline music-wise since moving to its...

The coffee was fine, the baked goods and customer service were not. A plain croissant 'should' be a predictable morsel, but the $5 "poser croissant" I got was basically an expensive piece of doughy bread. Gross. The only semblence of what it claimed to be was literally the very outermost layer. The innards however were white and just yuck. I picked the croissant apart, looking for layers or any cooked bits so I might have more than the crust with my coffee, but my search was fruitless. The counter staff offered a refund for the dough (without me asking), which I said "sure" to, but they reneged after a beat with a "sorry, actually you'll need to take it up with Sparrow." Lame CS. They could have taken the hit and offered me something else to nibble on, like a bagel, and I would've been thankful. But no. Instead, I left hungry and out $5...and Lone Pine will never get another cent out of me. To the owners: Sparrow has duped CO the past 5 years with increasingly subpar sub-baked garbage. Why do coffee shops continue to carry and offer these low quality bites when the hype no longer lives up to reality? There are so many other LOCAL talented bakers who are better deserving of your support and the exposure. And re staff, perhaps a lesson in actual problem...

My fiancé and I checked out Lone Pine Coffee today. We ordered a cappuccino for him, a couple pastries and a latte for me. The pastries (one of which was house made) were delicious. However the coffee was meh and made worse by the lack of any nondairy milk other than almond. Almond milk in coffee when warmed tastes at baseline pretty poor but I gave it a chance as I didn’t want to scour the town for a café who offers oat milk and the barista said it had a little cashew milk which makes it creamier and less weird tasting. Unfortunately, the latte tasted grossly acidic between the meh taste of the coffee, the vanilla bean syrup and the limited almond milk option. I couldn’t even drink it. My fiancé is South American and knows good coffee … he too agreed the coffee was bad and neither of us would return. The service, interior decor and pastries were good though.

We later went to Looney Bean and got an oat milk latte with cinnamon and honey which...