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| - After years and years and YEEEEEARS (OK, more like 3 years) of wanting to visit, I finally made my way down to The Cold Pressery at 2 pm on a lovely Wednesday afternoon.
To start, this place is a little tricky to find! It's tucked away on the lower level of a small plaza, and if you're not careful, you'll miss it! I drove around once or twice before finally finding where it was and snagging a parking spot. The inside of the cafe is super cute and it was quite busy with people sitting at tables drinking their coffees, eating their lunches or pastries, or just on their laptops doing their own thing. Cool!
Now, I may have built this place up in my head a bit but ...... it really wasn't anything to shake a stick at. My partner and I ordered a coffee, one of each macaron flavor (strawberry, matcha and coffee), 1 chocolate banana muffin and two of the LAST Bloomers donuts that were on display.
The coffee was fine. I got a latte and my partner got his black. I can't complain- coffee is coffee! But the macarons .... truly awful. Really. And I'm really not trying to be harsh or mean, but they were SO GROSS. The consistency itself was really strange. Almost sticky in your mouth and sticking to your teeth. The flavours were so (SOOOO) gross and very artificial. The strawberry macaron tasted like bad, cheap strawberry candy. The matcha was .... ok. And the coffee flavour macaron tasted burnt, kinda like meat??? And a little bit cardboard-y. Really. The donuts and the muffin though; can't complain! I looooove chocolate banana baked goods, so that was a DEFINITE WIN! The vegan donuts were also pretty tasty! I was disappointed that there wasn't any variety to choose from (we got the last two plain vanilla ones) but I will definitely be making a trip down to Bloomers (donut provider to The Cold Pressery) in the near future to try some more!
Overall it was an ok experience. I don't think I'll be going back. couple with he fact that this place is REALLY EXPENSIVE ($28 for my whole order), it wasn't that great. But I encourage you to try it for yourself and see.
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