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| - I was impressed upon entry into the Cold Pressery, however it's got a long way to go before its shakes can live up to the juice bar standard in downtown Toronto. FYI, this is a sole review based on 3 of their drinks.
Drinks (2/5): I've tried the following shakes/drinks at this place. Choco-Maca Shake, Iced Matcha Latte, and the Bananaberry Chia shake. None of them taste that great, and in all honesty, fall flat on any flavour whatsoever.
Choco-Maca Shake: Now here's a drink that challenges you to buy it because it's pretty difficult working with raw cocoa and raw maca, and achieve a decent flavour. For those that don't know, maca is a kind of root vegetable that is well known for it's medicinal qualities. However, its not popular because it doesn't taste that great... Combine it with the bitterness of raw cocoa and you can start to understand why it might be a distasteful drink... in which it is. It's unfortunate that the banana, almond butter, and almond milk didn't help in masking the cocoa+maca flavours. It's a textured drink due to the cocoa nibs, and needs an acquired taste to finish the entire drink.
Iced Matcha Latte: Not much to say on this end. Just get the one at starbucks, it's much too bitter here. Unless you like bitter.
Bananaberry Chia: Tried what I'd classify as a saving grace drink. Nothing too risky in this one. It's comes out a nice purple color, but I think the proportions are all wrong... there were no flavours complementing each other , you barely taste any berry, and although the flavour of bananas is fairly strong.. even that was muted out. More or less tasted like one giant SLIGHTLY flavoured slushy.
Price (2.5/5): I understand that many of their ingredients are much more costly than a non-vegan/organic place, but if the ingredients aren't utilized in a way that capitalizes on the best flavours then it's much too expensive to pay for drinks that don't taste like much.
Service (4/5): They'll treat you with a smile when you walk and take your order in a timely manner. If you choose to sit in they'll bring the drinks to your table, and clean the tables for you afterwards which is a nice touch. Lastly, if they are free they will thank you for your patronage so service is definitely down packed here!
Ambiance (4.5/5): If there was a reason to come back to this place it would be because they simply have a great looking cafe. It's inviting, spacious, clean, and well decorated. They have a beautiful mural of square one on one side and throughout the cafe there are comfy chairs that make you want to sit in. They have a basket of chargers for you to use and ipads to play around with if you sit by the windows. If you've got a big group, there is a small bookcase of board games to play with! Well done on this aspect of the place and is definitely the one reason I would come back. Gotta to still try out their food after all!
The Cold Pressery has got a lot of potential, and alot of aspects in which they strive in, however they've got to up their smoothie game up if they want to impress any Torontonians who make a pit stop is Sauga.
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