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| - The downtown location of 21st Street coffee was my first experience with this lovely coffee shop.
So I am generally against paying for coffee unless I am like really hungover or if I am at a restaurant for breakfast, and still probably hungover. But I stopped into this shop with a couple friends for an after lunch treat. I didn't really know the deal with 21st street coffee-that they take coffee seriously. They make it to perfection and try to imbue their thoughts on how coffee should be drank. I do not disagree. They greeted me warmly and offered to tell me about their different roasts and what the flavors were like. I don't know if it was just my mood or that i did feel a bit intimidated by the descriptions of the coffee flavors, but I went with a latte. MAN was it delicious. I studied abroad in Italy and am familiar with some high quality espresso. This was the best I have tasted in the states. No need for sugar, this latte was beautifully rich and sweet in it's natural state and blended so nicely with the frothy milk.
I have had a few other really good experiences at both this location and the one in the strip and they know what they are doing. They serve really good black coffee. Thats it. No need for sugar or cream, and I kinda think they discourage the addition to anything else to their freshly roasted one cup at a time carefully-brewed-at-the-right-temperature coffee. Some may call that snobby, but I kinda feel like they are trying to get people to at least try the brew before you mask the flavor with those add-ins. They will let you know about how the flavor may change as the brew cools, or if it is best to drink at a certain temp. If you are the type of person who just can't do black coffee, they encourage trying one of the blended drinks, like a latte. The question was posed to me once while standing at their counter "Do you want a cup of really good black coffee, or do you want something blended and sweet?"
The price... I feel like paying for coffee is a stupid thing to do, especially the quality of a place like Star*ucks, where you aren't actually paying for quality, but this place truly allows me to justify the price of paying for this coffee. I can't (don't know how but want to learn) make this quality of coffee at home, and haven't found many places that match it in taste and flavor. It a luxury, simply put, but I am willing to pay for the luxury here than waste it on a chain that doles out a brew that I could have made myself.
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