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| - There have been two occasions where I've ventured into a cafe alone, only to be dragged back into the same cafe with dining companions later the same day. The first time was last Boxing Day at a Second Cup; the second time, it was at Moonbean Coffee, and it was busy on both occasions.
For my first visit, I had a vanilla rooibos--the vanilla flavour was subtle but still came through, which was more than I could say for the chocolate coconut chai I had at Voulez-Vous Cafe. For my second visit, I got what was possibly the last vegan gluten-free chocolate brownie for the day to go with a gloriously unhealthy espresso supreme, which was a shot of espresso topped with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream and further crowned with whipped cream (or, as I would like to call it, a red-eye ice cream float). The brownie was tasty albeit slightly hard; the over-the-top espresso supreme was what made the day for me.
The menu is written on a blackboard in three sections in a rather dizzying format--while the kid-in-a-candy-store feeling that I get is pretty thrilling, the fact that other people are in line behind me and I'm dizzy from trying to pick something from the menu might not necessarily thrill them...
I think I'll try out a latte or cappuccino, to see what kind of latte art the baristas (very friendly ladies!) are capable of on my next visit...
(Random factoids:
1. All this time I've been spelling it MoonbeaM Coffee and making cheesy puns about laser beams on the moon... nope, I'm not winning any spelling bees any time soon...
2. Apparently Moonbean cafe has been recommended by some European guidebooks on Toronto.
3. For gluten-free folks: Besides the gluten-free vegan brownies, Moonbean now also has gluten-free fruit rounds...
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