Waterbean Coffee — Restaurant in Charlotte

This place is nearby so occasionally I'll go there to work if things aren't good. I've had the coffee hear a few times and it's alright. At home I make Vietnamese coffee (robusta in a thin + condensed milk). There was construction noise and I was craving some VN coffee...perhaps it's been altered substantially to suit an american palette, but to me, it didn't taste any different aha a regular iced coffee. It was sort of bland, IMO. It would be nice to have seen something like coconut coffee, too. My review is tainted by a recent trip to Viet Nam...but yeah. If I'm paying for coffee I expect it to be as good or better than I can make at home. On the plus side they have an absolutely exquisite selection of loose leaf teas, nice ambience, and great staff. Overall still worth...

Interesting building layout. I enjoyed walking in and grazing up at the high ceiling, until I saw pic related. Further, being suggested to not get certain orders, because "there are a lot of people ahead of you" isn't exactly a good sign. We took their advice and ordered iced coffee (apparently "famous") but it still took over 15 minutes to be made. Not worth the wait. Finally, they sell macarons. The options are $2.35 individually, or, "to save a few bucks," a box of 5 for $12.50. I'll let you use your phone calculator to figure out the savings. TL;DR Starbucks is 300 meters up the street. EDIT: Spoke to my wife, the wait was 20-25 minutes,...

This place is on my morning commute to work and lately everytime I come in to place an order it seems to be an inconvenience to the staff. Last week my order was missing ingredients, this week my breakfast sandwich was over-salted deliberately there’s no way that was an accident when you bite into a heap of salt .. I could not eat it and had to toss it out. Really disappointed with this waterbean location I would like to be a customer and continue giving them business but I just cannot with the way they have been doing things unfortunately I will not be going back. Wish the owners would do a better job vetting...