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| - At first, I didn't want to come here, after they forced out the previous business, 7 Grams Espresso bar. 7 Grams was a great spot, run by coffee-loving awesome people, and when I heard that they were being forced out so the owner could occupy and put in another coffee shop in it's place, that rubbed me the wrong way. Not cool to kill small local business like that.
After about a month, I went in on my way to work for coffee, thinking, meh, I'll give these guys a try. They jacked up the coffee prices (instead of 2.25 tax included, now you're looking at 2.40, plus tax for a medium coffee) and the coffee beans for filter aren't as good as before - Pilot coffee (what they have) is great, but the beans 7 Grams had before were faaaar superior.
The staff are a bit up-tight about pours - won't fill your cup to the top unless you ask. I used to go to 7 grams with my to-go mug, pay for a medium, and they'd fill it up. These guys leave it 1/3 empty. Weird, but whatever.
One day I noticed a vegan muffin on offer. Nice. I asked the ingredients - was told, after the woman working the counter went and whispered with the owner about it for a little while, that while other things on offer are made in house, the vegan muffins are not made there and they didn't know the ingredients. No offer to ask and let me know for next time, and they wouldn't tell me where they were made when I asked. I found that very weird. The owner literally said 'there's peanut butter, banana, and oatmeal' (it was a peanut butter, banana, oatmeal muffin) and then said "I don't know what else is in it - muffin things". I was treated like some sort of spy for inquiring about something that doesn't seem like an outrageous question to ask a food service provider.
As it stands, this place doesn't hold a candle to what 7 Grams used to be like....which is too bad. 7 Grams was a great coffee spot, great for meetings, studying, reading, chilling with a great cup of coffee. Unfortunately, this place is taking itself a bit too seriously, and isn't really any of those things.
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