High Octane Coffee — Restaurant in Monroe

My wife and I like boutique coffee joints, but we have had issues finding one in Union County we like until now!

Coffee: This is about the coffee for us and it’s really good! It’s smooth and tasty. I don’t usually like my coffee bitter, so the white mocha is perfect for me. They can make it extra sweet but it was a bit too sweet.

Chai: Any time my wife talks about chai, she is comparing it to her favorite chai from college. She compared it to that chai! I even liked it and I don’t like chai!

Food: My wife I have tried the breakfast sandwiches only, and they were pretty good. I had a bacon, egg, and cheese on sourdough. She had a turkey, egg, and cheese on GLUTEN FREE BREAD! I don’t know if they use separate grills, so there might be cross contamination, but my wife had no issues with it.

Atmosphere: The location in a restored gas station is genius! The soft chairs right in the entrance are perfect and there is outside seating when the weather is good. This place is popular, so do be prepared for a possible long wait if you go in during peak hours

Staff: They are fairly friendly. They normally have a smile, repeat your order back to you, get your order to you quickly, and check on you if things are taking too long.

They consistently stay open and make quality drinks and food. This is the best coffee in Union County and the best chai...

The place is very well decorated but this place is a great example of the low barrier to entry for coffee places. People open coffee places because it’s cheaper than starting other businesses and many times they don’t know what they are doing. Let’s take as an example their “honey lavender” flavored drink. If you put a whole ounce of the lavender it tastes like floor cleaner. One is only supposed to put a touch in. Well this place doesn’t care and they just dump an ounce in. When I went to order something different, even though the mistake was theirs, they let me order another nine dollar drink. Also when I was sitting down and the new drink was delivered, I asked that they take the old drink away. The server looked at me like I was an idiot, and spoke to like I was an idiot saying “the trash is right there, you can do it yourself”. I asked the server if I was supposed to dump this whole drink in the trash and then it would leak all over the floor when they emptied it, and there was a sink in back. The server took it with a huff.

This is my second visit to this place and each time I left having spent way too much money for a below average product and service. It does look cool though, and things that look cool sometimes...

Highly Recommend this tasty spot! They have a great selection of coffee, pastries, ice cream and sandwiches.

We came here for sandwiches and coffees on a cute couples date.

Tried The Little Havana sandwich. This one turned out to be my favorite.

We also tried the Queso Planche which comes in second place.

Third favorite we tried was the Thanksgiving sandwich. Very nice combo of flavors.

Last thing was the new breakfast sandwich which has bacon, egg, and cheese but that wasn’t as exciting as their other creations.

We got sugar free vanilla and hazelnut syrups in our iced lattes with almond milk. Those were very nice. Great amount of coffee, milk, and sweetness. Nice blend of flavors.

We also got a handful of pastries to test out and see what was good. I recommend trying any of them and enjoying them all or come by a few times to try something new every time.

Loved the inside vibe and some cool things in here to see.

Service was...