Herks Werks — Restaurant in Poncha Springs

If you’re going to open a coffee shop, you should at the very least know how to make coffee. The flat white is the real benchmark. This morning I ordered one with oat milk. The barista then asked if I wanted sugar or flavor “like Starbucks.” Major red flag 🚩.

She then grabbed a 20-ounce cup, drowned a single shot of espresso in a sea of milk, and slid it across as if nothing were amiss. What I received wasn’t a flat white; it was a parody. Straight into the trash it went.

Lady, this line of work isn’t for you. And to the owner: for the love of caffeine, train your staff. A flat white is six ounces, not twenty. It’s not like this is some obscure specialty—this is a simple, common drink known all around the world.

Do yourself a favor to save eight dollars (yes… 8 whole U.S. dollars for this monstrosity) and a whole lot of disappointment:

Avoid this joke of a café. Go to Topo Coffee downtown, where baristas actually treat coffee as a craft.

This place is not a coffee shop. It’s a coffee-flavored milkshake joint that caters to unrefined philistines who don’t actually like...

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