The Coffee House — Restaurant in Davis

The Coho, for what it is, is great. And what it is, is a student run coffee bar that has a friendly staff, and a decent selection at an excellent price. Where else can you get a medium coffee and a blueberry muffin for less than $5? However, I avoid anything other than that order. Their lattes are hard to call lattes. This is the type of take that gets eyerolls from other people but I remain resolved. The students making them often have no prior experience, so I don't blame them, but I suspect many of them have never even had a latte. It's a coarse foam over lukewarm burnt espresso. And then there are the pastries. Most are pretty good, not very fresh but definitely decent. Except for their strawberry croissants. I don't know what had to go wrong for them to serve what was decidedly not a strawberry croissant. When I bit into it I thought I was having an aneurysm. It tasted like raspberry, which is a very distinct flavor from strawberry. I went back to the display to check to see if I had mistakenly ordered a raspberry croissant, but sure enough it said strawberry. I felt like I was going crazy. I told the attendant, she grabbed her manager and I told them it tasted like raspberry. She said they never order raspberry. My whole world crumbled. For a brief second I considered the other options. That I was having a paranoid delusion. A mental break. I expected to them say that I had never ordered a croissant at all and that I was losing my mind. In an effort to rectify the situation and save me from what must have looked like the brink of a psychotic episode, the manager graciously offered to replace it with a different pastry. "Now I guess you know that you don't like it", they said. I felt a mild sense of gaslighting, I know what strawberry tastes like, and I definitely like it. But if I were in their position I probably would've handled it the same way. I wasn't expecting a side of derealization with my morning coffee and pastry, but you can never know what to expect at the CoHo. Oh, also I really wish they had longer hours and opened...

The coffee is fine, but it’s run by kids who don’t know what they’re doing. Three times now, I order a drink and it goes to the back of the line. Even when there’s no line; I came in today to an empty shop. Ordered my espresso, and as several people came in they made their espresso drinks before mine. The person running the machine didn’t know how to work it.

To finish it off, they won’t stamp my punchcard because I ordered an espresso drink, and they’re only for coffee only. Nevermind I spend more money on espresso, nevermind I’ve had my card punched with espresso several times before. Unprofessional, inconsistent service. This kind of service wouldn’t...

I asked a staff member if they had any muffins and they told me “what you see is what we have”. Well, I’ve never been here and don’t know your bakery layout and isn’t it your job to help me make a purchase? I feel like asking if they have muffins for sale is a pretty simple question for somewhere which sells baked goods - at least pretend to check for me. Bought a coffee instead and it was mediocre. I do recruiting from this campus and will be bringing my own...