The Great North — Restaurant in Portland

Pretty friendly staff and nice atmosphere. Good quality bread and coffee, but poor quality construction of drinks and sandwiches. The breakfast sandwiches were tasty, but very unfilling and lacking in complex flavor- I could taste the unique ingredients but there was nowhere near enough to call it flavorfull. I ordered a caramel mocha, the largest size was 16oz, and while the coffee itself was high quality, there was no hint of sweetness, chocolate, or caramel. I spent $30 on 2 coffees and 2 breakfast sandwiches, all of which were very disappointing. If they were actually good tasting and filling I wouldn't have minded the price but i was incredibly let down and it was severely overpriced. It's great to have high quality ingredients, but in order to justify the price you have to have good quality execution as well, which they simply didn't have. It's unlikely I'll ever come here...

Pros: They put the cream cheese on the bagel, so it's ready to eat (this is huge and overshadows all other opinions. I wish more places did this like they do in NYC!) They have oat milk! Coava coffee, so delicious People working there were nice Bright open minimalist space Awesome logo/branding, I kind of want one of their National-Park-Signage-Inspired-Logo heavy ceramic mugs

Cons: I only discovered it because I saw a woman leaving with a coffee cup, the entrance is tucked back if you don't know what you are looking for It smelled a bit too much like cleaning product, but I'm sensitive to that, hopefully it just means they had just cleaned everything The everything bagel had more fennel than I was mentally...

Friendly and kind baristas. They only offer a house made oat milk and Pacific almond, neither of which are good unfortunately. I do wish they had Oatly or a barista soy. The breakfast sandwich is great but please update your ordering hours on food orders. The website and online menu say nothing about a cutoff and I went in at 5:25pm (closing was 6pm) and food orders were already shut down for the day. I couldn't even get a bagel toasted and there were 3 left. We want to support our St. Johns cafes so just write your hours online so we...