Manvel Avenue Coffee Co. — Restaurant in Chandler

So Today's Taste Tour--Breakfast Edition was to:

Manvel Avenue Coffee Co. in downtown Chandler.

It's a nice spot on Historic Route 66 with an updated take on historic architecture. Lots of space, including a meeting room that can be reserved.

Since I just needed my morning jump start, I opted for a Dark Chocolate Mocha Frappe and a Sausage, Egg and cheese biscuit. Biscuits and gravy are also on the breakfast menu, and were almost chosen, because well, biscuits and gravy.

The frappe was excellent, with a significant dose of dark chocolate and great flavor. The sausage egg and cheese biscuit was about four inches tall, and is everything a fast food breakfast biscuit isn't. Large sausage patty, light, flaky biscuit, inch thick egg and cheddar cheese. As one comedian has said, it's the type of biscuit that'll make you wanna slap your mama. Good thing she wasn't with me.

They have a wide variety of hot and cold coffee drinks, and a handy dandy explanation chart for those who aren't sure how to order a triple mocha espresso macchiato soy latte frappe or what they'd get if they did. They have a variety of breakfast dishes and light lunch fare, with sandwiches, paninis and salads. Even a kids menu!

They are open until 2PM daily, so be sure and stop by on your next Route 66 road trip.

And, be sure and check out the cool vintage books and albums from BOOKS...

This place feels like it should be downtown big city somewhere instead of quiet main street in Chandler. It's so pretty inside with a ton of space, including a stage and room you can rent out. Very clean. There are old books and vinyls for sale along with merch. I got greeted with a lot of smiles. The staff answered all my questions. My biscuits and grave with Raspberry iced latte was very good, got it fast, and I paid $7 for all of it. My cheif complaint is that they close at 2pm. I wish they would reopen from like 6 to 10. Or just do it on weekends? I would be here all the time and so would my parents. Unfortunately , I am in town early once in a blue moon so I always just miss this place every time. I'm glad I got to stop in this morning. You should come check...

Buyer beware: if you go in before closing, but after the young students working have already cleaned the kitchen, no food for you. There’s no signage anywhere that states their kitchen closes before 2:00 PM, but they close at 2:00 PM. My husband went in for a sandwich a little after 1:30, was sent there by customers of his, the kids working said “sorry the kitchen is closed”. When you serve coffee and sandwiches, it seems like you’d serve those until you close, or post clearly that you stop serving lunch at a certain time. We don’t live in Chandler, but my husband works in Chandler. And he was trying to support a local business before heading home. It’s not great business practice to not post clearly that your kitchen closes at a different time than...