The emperor has no clothes!
This is one of the most favorably reviewed highly touted coffee houses in Toronto.
I drink a lot of espresso house coffee, love my coffee, and know my coffee.
This joint is all pretension - zero delivery.
I got the house's favored preparation method (pour over) on their featured star rare opportunity coffee of the day.
The ritual of making the coffee was beautiful to watch.
The coffee was served in a beautiful matched set of a custom designed wood board with a coffee snifter and a glass turkish style pourer.
(A fantastic decorating idea for your sideboard)
The coffee had overtones of void, with subtle undercurrents of zero and nothing.
It was a beautiful cup of brown water.
Worse still - the beautiful glass decanter made the coffee cool to room temperature in about 90 seconds.
So I was drinking room temperature water the whole time.
Now it was obvious from talking to the barista that he truly values a very light coffee with almost no body -
and getting this glass full of emptiness was a positive accomplishment on his part.
i can make hot water at home.