Freedom of Espresso — Restaurant in City of Syracuse

Both this and the liverpool location are similar: -great location -great atmosphere -good enough espresso -lifeless zombie baristas who, despite me setting my coat and bag at a table, set me up with my drink and pastry to-go... almost like "hint, hint, dude. I don't want you at my table" and when I ask for a plate I'm met with a big assed sigh. Maybe they only hire PhD students who're sooooo above working for a living that getting a darn plate feels like moving half a mountain? Maybe I only come in after they've crashed off of their earlier caff high and they're only just about to get started on their next fix. Doesn't matter. Be prepared to get exponentially worse service than at McDonalds ten minutes before close. Maybe then you will have the opportunity to be...

Writing this review hoping the shop will take note, I hate to give feedback which isn't totally positive. The baristas at this shop need some more training on making coffee drinks. I get latte drinks here often and they consistently overheat the milk and hardly froth it at all. My sense is the espresso needs some love too. Given that there is a rarely a line when I come in, I really need them to take a couple extra minutes on these drinks. The drinks are extremely expensive ($7.45 for a 16 oz. mocha, for example) and genuinely if you are making drinks this poor its a bit unethical to be charging this much. Again, the staff just needs better training on how to properly steam and froth milk. Please take note; I would like to...

I have been a Kubal/Recess snob for a while but wanted to give somewhere else a try. Wish they made it clear there’s no food at this location except bagels. Ordered a bagel and a dirty chai. Paid $13. Took me a very long time to receive the bagel (not because they were busy; because they were on their computer) and when they did, it was hard and cold so very difficult to spread the cream cheese on. Coffee tasted like chai with no espresso. I would’ve gotten over all of that but what I could not get over was the wifi. Their internet was so slow I could not get any work done. Spent 40 minutes hoping it would get better as the small lunch rush died down. It didn’t. I left to go to...