Orion Coffee And Tea — Restaurant in Cedarville Township

Telemetry is a fun spot. I first heard of it after purchasing a box of Third Wave Water. Since I grew up nearby, I decided to stop in the next time I was home.

Given how niche and nuanced Third Wave Water is, I thought I might be wandering into some kind of crazy detailed coffee lab. Admittedly, in my head I questioned whether a small town like Cedarville could support that concept. I'd say my expectations were mismatched.

I came for a pour over, ideally a nice light roast like an Ethiopian. The staff was a little surprised, as in the person who took my order had to ask someone else if they did pour overs at all as it appeared to be an uncommon request (to be fair, they're not on the menu). They happened to be out of V60 filters so no dice there, and instead I had a french press of their Ethiopia Sidamo. It was okay — a bit dark for my taste and ground like espresso, too fine for the french press, so the cup had a lot of soot-like coffee particles.

The FoamAroma lids were a nice touch. This is the only coffee shop I've seen them in outside of Seattle.

Another awesome aspect is the view from the back porch where you can sip your coffee and listen to the relaxing water roll by from a small stream.

I sat there for a few hours on my laptop and most people ordered drinks like frappes or food like the panini sandwiches which looked good and there were about a dozen different ones available. Prices are very reasonable. It's definitely a mainstream small town crowd.

After trying it for the first time, I'd classify Telemetry as a local neighborhood coffee shop or coffee house with mass appeal and not really third wave. If you're looking for a nearby third wave style coffee shop, I'd recommend visiting either Press in Dayton or Warehouse 4 in Vandalia. Overall, I know that the owner, Taylor, is knowledgeable and talented when it comes to coffee and Telemetry in my opinion is very catered to the local market — if he did a slow bar or opened a more experimental shop, I'd definitely...

Quaint little place. I was a bit disappointed in that Stoney Creek ended up being a starbucks-like coffee shop instead of true third wave coffee (i.e. like Press or Ghostlight in downtown Dayton) considering how the place looks, but can't really fault it for that - they are two different styles of coffee shops focusing on two different things.

Mostly I was disappointed with their in-house roasted beans they had for sale. Maybe I just got a bad batch, but the beans I bought smelled of ash and were unevenly roasted. Nobody there knew what the roast dates were for any of the bags, which isn't good to hear from an in-house roaster considering coffee begins to go stale after about 3 weeks from the roast date (and after 15 minutes from grinding).

That said I loved the atmosphere and the balcony looking over the creek. I wish my local coffee shops had something like that! Their food looked pretty good too, but I didn't have any...

Kind of disappointing. We we out there because NO coffee shops are open in Dayton after 7 pm. Two starts for having delicious tea and being open late.

However, we wanted to buy coffee too. Red Flags when buying coffee: 3/4 of the bags we looked at were unsealed there were no roasting dates on label the staff weren't sure when they were roasted.

We decided to ignore the red flags to try something new....and this morning I regretted it. The coffee tasted stale/old. I wont be trekking out there again, but I definitely see why the atmosphere brings in the studying...