IW Coffee & Chai Bar — Restaurant in Palm Desert

I’ve come a handful of times. I think they significantly over charge. None of the chai choices are actually spicy. Most of the time the drink just ends up tasting like expensive milk. I don’t want to pay $10 for an iced milk. I think you can purchase better chai at a store or order online. It’s just not worth it. If it was less expensive, I could tolerate it a little more. But they really just are not good enough overall. It’s really unacceptable. Chai is not a difficult drink and the quality ingredients are not scarce to obtain. Go to any Indian restaurant and they’ll give you a cup of the best spiciest chai that you are looking for , for free! Go anywhere ethnic and you’ll find that chai that you are seeking out with all that flavor and depth. It’s cheap to free at any Indian restaurant.

If I’m ordering a chai at this place, without making it dirty, I shouldn’t be paying anymore than 4 to maybe 5 bucks at the very most for the large. And if I do add shots no more than 6-7 bucks for the large.

Quality is completely...

Local joint where the owner greets everyone by name (amazing to watch, impressive). Has a sense of community.

The coffee is okay.

The real magic here is the muffins and pastries - which they bake fresh everyday, and are so amazing it’s hard to find enough words. This I say, and I generally never order muffins or pastries. The Chai selection is not only tremendous, but the actual Chai is top notch (I guess it makes sense why the call it a Chai Bar).

Lastly, I just want to point out that they open at 6am. This is equally important to all of the other great products the offer. This place is actually hoping at 6-6:30am. Humans need coffee and breakfast.

Nothing bothers me more than a coffee shop that opens at 8am (misses the point).

So, thank you to Mike and the entire staff for getting it right, hitting the center of the bullseye, and being an integral part of the community. You made my visit welcoming and...

Wonderful neighborhood cafe! We walked over from the Embarc time share for breakfast on a Sunday morning and loved it.

beautiful interior, with nice window views of San Jacinto lots of interesting coffee drinks, as well as standard ones, and many varieties of chai (we got the "nutella latte" and just an oat milk latte) large breakfast menu, plus lots of baked goods (I had the breakfast bagel and my boyfriend had the New Yorker, both of us loved the food) variety of milk (2%, almond, oat) friendly staff and calm vibes prices are not cheap, but are pretty standard (my bagel sandwich was $6 and the new yorker was $10 because it has lox, and our drinks were about $4 each)

We will have to come...