The Roasterie isn't a bad cooffe shop, it simply doesn't suit everyone. You can't argue that their coffee is very good. The atmosphere is unique to say the leastj partially run down, a little bit divey, cozy, and with a staff that marches to the beat of its their own drummer- it's the Roasterie.
Most of the time you can find people of all sorts smoking outside of it- not always welcoming. at the same time many of those people are great folk, a crowd of smokerrs isn't always something you want to walk through before sitting down for a coffee.