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| - I found everything to be just about average. I don't drink coffee often and usually am looking for more of an experience/destination. Temporarily parked in Squirrel Hill for awhile, I wanted to try it out. There were very few places open at 8am on a Sunday. A plus is that they offer a 20% discount with a library donor card.
Since they have only general coffee and espresso drinks, I ordered something I would usually not go for--a blended iced coffee drink from the "Chip Chopped Iced Coffees" list: chocolate peanut butter. I have no idea what they put in this (though I saw the barista pull out an instruction binder and rip open a plastic baggie of mystery powder) but it had balanced tastes of coffee, chocolate, and peanut butter. It was topped with whipped cream and I added a few shakes each of cinnamon and nutmeg.
I love baked goods but I didn't see anything that appealed to me. The refrigerated case was nearly empty and plastic wrap on yummies always turns my brain off.
I settled into a far corner with The City Paper in the lower room. It started out empty, but soon I had neighbors. Fortunately they were all speaking either Spanish or Hebrew so I didn't get stuck listening to their conversations. I wouldn't have liked it if it were any busier or people had been having their loud conversations in English.
After a spell of slow sucking, my drink was only 1/3 gone but no longer coming up the straw. I kept trying to re-position the straw but was getting nothing. I figured out that the drink was too frozen. From this point on out I kept setting it to sit in the sun for 10 minutes, then drank a little, etc repeat. It took me close to two hours to get it all melted and drunk, which was OK because by that point I was waiting for the Giant Eagle Pharmacy to open.
A decent excuse to get out of the house, but with so many choices in the neighborhood and across the city, I don't see myself returning on purpose.
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