west coast coffee on campus

snorlax

just read in the sunday tribune today that they'r opening up an outlet on campus (and i don't know exactly where), it's great news and should help raise the standard of coffee on campus! wooh-ho

god i love coffee...:p:D:p

cuckoo

Maybe in the lobby of AAP? This is good news, it means i won't have my 'oh, i'll just nip out to nassau st for a cup of coffee, oh look, i've been wandering around the shops on grafton st for two hours' moments.

Ron DMC

damn globalisation, --- at least it not starbucks

I'm already well happy with smooch.

Ilac

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

damn globalisation, --- at least it not starbucks

Give it time - this time next year they'll probably be opening a McDonalds...

Pet

Ilac wrote:

Give it time - this time next year they'll probably be opening a McDonalds...

No doubt due to pressure from all the American tourists!

Ilac

I wonder where they'd put a McDonalds - they could probably fit it into House 6, maybe convert the Chapel...

Ron DMC

but there's one about a minute away. I always notice it when i cross grafton street to avoid the scum outside

Ilac

There's a West Coast Coffee about a minute away too, and that's not stopping them... There might even be two.

Crash

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

damn globalisation, --- at least it not starbucks

I'm already well happy with smooch.

i need starbucks working in DCU i got well addicted to it - now what'll i do?

(in fairness, i find black filter coffee from there quite flavoursome.)

cuckoo

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

damn globalisation, --- at least it not starbucks

It's an Irish owned coffee chain, yup, they're selling an american notion of coffee, but we can already get our cups of tae in Catering to revel in our nationhood.

Students + caffeine, "they go together like a horse and carriage..."

i just hope it doesn't end up like the coffee bar in the school in the OC - full of BOPs and their mates giggling and comparing handbags and birds.

xeduCat

(cough) School of Nursing.... (/cough)

Oops, did I say that out loud?

snorlax

ahh i wish Indy could have campaigned for decent coffee in james, or at least an outlet where you don't have to work half a mile to get to it.. or what about that extra pub licence that james could have made use of...;)!

hhmmmmm 2 coffee outlets.. this just gets better...! nearly as good as lemon opening up just outside college..:)~! hmm crepes...:)!

Newsflash: Starbucks have taken over every secound street of Edinburgh!

in fairness there's only one way to drink coffee and that's using the stuff made freshly from the beans. filter is grand, not the best although it certainely beats instant and *shudder, decaff.....................

punka

best news ever! i need never go off-campus again!

*does a little dance*


unless it is in the school of nursing, of course.....

fade

in fairness, west coast is not the best, the big chains never are, now if you are down the science end (where all the cool kats hang, you dig?) head on to westland and try out italian place up from the centra (cafe de Napoli or somethin) the coffee is top class, nice people and one of the waitresses is a fookin fox!

Skitbra

No West Coast is great. Best coffee. They only burn the hell out of the milk in that italian place and they're annoying italians working there. At least in West Coast you get a mix of nice Swedes, Canadians, Germans, etc. Also West Coast have the loyalty card. But a West Coast on campus is a bit pointless seeing as they're just outside lincoln gate and the nassau st entrance.

DublinWriter

fade wrote:

try out italian place up from the centra (cafe de Napoli or somethin) the coffee is top class

Nah, I've tried it a few times and it's really over-rated.

Plus, for a place that advocates the quality of it's coffee, it serves it in a carboard cup even if you are sitting in.

West Coast for me every time.

Chardee MacDennis

starbucks are opening on college green, i have hear rumours that they are leasing the building from Trinity, and i am quite partial to a west coast coffee, my mate has nearly ten of those loyalty cards filled which he refuses to use, i hope they close just to spite him!!!!!

fade

well ive never had a bad coffee out of there. as for the epeople workin there, it doesnt really matter at all, and anyway, id much rather an itialian than a german, swede or canadian! you should have used a more exciting example!

the problem with west coast is that its a big chain and i find that as a rule they take less care and effort with what they do

snorlax

the west coast coffee off grafton street is really cosy downstairs and the staff are quite nice.
cafe de napoli is nice but the coffee always burns you cos it's too hot. but the fair trade coffee in the JCR has also gotten better (only the queue's after lectures suck). cafe napoli used to give free orange juice/ mini chocolates with their coffee.

starbucks are coming on campus, really? where exactly?

Chardee MacDennis

college green, as in between little ceasers and the taxi car park place....

Skitbra

Well I'd much prefer a German to an Italian. The Italians are just rude. And of course it matters who works there. If you're a regular its nice that you can have a friendly smile when you go in.

DublinWriter

fade wrote:

the problem with west coast is that its a big chain and i find that as a rule they take less care and effort with what they do

I wouldn't say that. I use the West Coast at the top of Westmoreland Row and on Camden St. and they're all v.friendly and nice.

Chardee MacDennis

westland row; the girls in there are very nice and very friendly...
never been to any others. has anyone tried Barneys yet? i found their coffee to be quite week, and not much flavour in them, but their frappacino things are very nice. and their chairs are quite comfartable...

snorlax

yeh i was in Barneys recently (top of easons/ nassau street), the coffee was okay but the price of the buns/ etc was frighful, however the waiter was very nice and it was kind of cosy.
has anyone tried the iced lattes? theyr a ridiculous price there, like 4 euros or something but they look interesting, good never undersand why anyone would want to freeze coffee though, well apart from the novelty.
what do you guys think of cafe mocha/ the dome (coffee only 1.90eur+it;s a lovely place/ very top st stephens green)

punka

fade wrote:

the problem with west coast is that its a big chain and i find that as a rule they take less care and effort with what they do

No offence, but that's just knee-jerk anti-capitalism. First off, they're not a particularly big chain, and just because a company is expanding (usually a sign they're doing something right as they're making money) doesn't mean they're going to let standards drop. The staff in the West Coast on Duke St are the nicest in any coffee shop in Dublin, along with maybe Metro. I can think of quite a few small coffee shops near Trinity that take less care and effort with what they do.

foxybrowne

lads, just buy a decent thermos, fill it with hot water/tea/coffee and use the money you save for more important things, like mortgages, childcare and pensions.

Chardee MacDennis

but i dont have any kids i know about, dont have a house and im too young to think about old people stuff like pensions.....

foxybrowne

Ah yes, we're too young for that stuif today, but tommorrow, we'll be too old and then we'll be ******.

snorlax

but coffee is a treat that you allow yourself for getting up out of bed on those cold November mornings, positive reinforcement it is!

DublinWriter

foxybrowne wrote:

lads, just buy a decent thermos, fill it with hot water/tea/coffee and use the money you save for more important things, like mortgages, childcare and pensions.

And while you're at, fashion your clothes out of recycled plastic bags and make your own alcholol using pineapples and brown-sugar.

fade

lads, just buy a decent thermos, fill it with hot water/tea/coffee and use the money you save for more important things, like mortgages, childcare and pensions.

ah now, thats ok for a cup of tea, any monkey can make a decent cup of tea, but coffee.. good coffee is a distraction in itself, a reward, like snorlax says, for gettin up/goin to lectures/studyin/managing to develop a hang over, the list is endless. some times you just cant skip onj quality, and if you do, you'll eventually regret it, i spent 2 years drinkin the instant crap in the jcr cos i wanted to save money, f*ck that, its worth it!

Chardee MacDennis

waking up 10-15mins early to make a good cup of coffee just not an option, i generally dont et up for breakfast, so i reckon my 15mins of sleep is definately worth my €3.50, plus the coffee i make is generally not that nice anyway.

foxybrowne wrote:

Ah yes, we're too young for that stuif today, but tommorrow, we'll be too old and then we'll be ******.

i reckon i have a bit more time than tommorrow to worry about pensions, besides 65 is old and far away, and you probably only get a few quality years after that so wont need that much money!!! well thats the plan anyway, or something..

Crash

actually - snorlax what are those two places beside mocha - Metro is teh win btw - the staff are so friendly apparently the place between the two is very nice too

snorlax

i think one is called coco beans (is white and green), can't remember the other one's name. iv never actually been to either, anytime im up in that direction it's normally cafe mocha as they do lovely white hot chocolates,(although they'r coffee isn't that great and is quite expensive, 2.40 for a black coffee, and if you want the house blend or coffee made directly from beans expect to pay 50-cent ontop of the regular coffee price).
Bulters does good coffee for 2.20 and you get a free chocolate! hmm the smell when i walk by there in the morning. also the runner bean (beside Butlers on Nassau street) does really good coffee for 1.60eur. Cafe sol is okay aswell.

where;s Metro?

Crash

Metro is the coffee shop over the corner from mocha - well worth it - the staff are lovely.

cuckoo

Busy Feet and Coco is the green painted one on the corner beside Metro, nr Mocha. The staff there are also lovely and all the tea and coffee is fair trade - plus reasonably priced. I reccommend their Death by Chocolate cake - yum. They also have lots of tables outside and copies of the newspapers lying around.

John

If you're looking for good cakes try the Queen of Tarts on Dame Street (facing City Hall). Excellent stuff there. I don't drink coffee so I can't comment on its quality there. However for hot chocolate connoisseurs Butlers is the king. Swiftly followed by Gloria Jeans on Camden Street (they offer different flavours, each more wonderful than the last).

cuckoo

John2 wrote:

If you're looking for good cakes try the Queen of Tarts on Dame Street (facing City Hall). Excellent stuff there. I don't drink coffee so I can't comment on its quality there. However for hot chocolate connoisseurs Butlers is the king. Swiftly followed by Gloria Jeans on Camden Street (they offer different flavours, each more wonderful than the last).

All hail Butlers hot chocolate! Wonderful elixir of molten 'life isn't that bad on a rainy day in college'!

Avoca on Suffolk St sell chocolate brownies in their basement take away food bit that are divine, but are so rich i can't eat them before a lecture as they make me sleepy. Happy, but sleepy.

Crash

Right, i think some time just before college we all need to go on a coffee run :P

John

I'll come along for the cakes.

Pet

I Avoca, although it's a bit too bloody expensive to go there more than once a week or so..

bino

snorlax wrote:

just read in the sunday tribune today that they'r opening up an outlet on campus (and i don't know exactly where), it's great news and should help raise the standard of coffee on campus! wooh-ho

god i love coffee...:p:D:p

i bet the resident communists in campus will find some obscure link to third world oppression of fellow bolschevicks and have a reffrendum to ban it

rsynnott

crash_000 wrote:

i need starbucks working in DCU i got well addicted to it - now what'll i do?

(in fairness, i find black filter coffee from there quite flavoursome.)

Is there one in DCU? Eek. They've come in by stealth (there's also one in DIT). The first proper one just opened up in the shopping center beside where I work (Dundrum). It's... meh.

There's actually already okay coffee in Trinity; the filter coffee in the West End building cafe (the one with lots of Andy Warhol prints). They used to be cheaper than the rest of college catering, but they standardised, damn them.

The Italian one is great, tho a bit expensive. I've never tried the West Coast one, tho I probably will if itturns up in college. Arts Block is NOT good, tho they tend to have nice chocolate biscuit things.

foxybrowne wrote:

lads, just buy a decent thermos, fill it with hot water/tea/coffee and use the money you save for more important things, like mortgages, childcare and pensions.

I'm one of those homosexual thingies, so my demands there are lower.

crash_000 wrote:

Right, i think some time just before college we all need to go on a coffee run :P

Is this the local equivalent of the Boards Beers?

punka

rsynnott wrote:

The Italian one is great, tho a bit expensive. I've never tried the West Coast one, tho I probably will if itturns up in college. Arts Block is NOT good, tho they tend to have nice chocolate biscuit things.

Arts block coffee=strangely addictive (once you get past the gag reflex). Also arts block soup is where it's at.

rsynnott wrote:

I'm one of those homosexual thingies, so my demands there are lower.

So just mortgages and pensions then?

rsynnott

punka wrote:

So just mortgages and pensions then?

But remember, don't need a big flat/house!

punka

but then where does all your stuff go? you've heaps more disposable income to spend on accumulating stuff - and you need somewhere to store it, no?

snorlax

arts block soup! your kidding, is it suppossed to have unidentifiable bits floating around it?! ahh Punka ..........

the coffee in the arts block is strangely addictive, always makes me go hyper though, that and too many jellybeans.
burns out your stomach aswell ....

punka

snorlax wrote:

arts block soup! your kidding, is it suppossed to have unidentifiable bits floating around it?! ahh Punka ..........

It's actually the best ever. Only it's always the same flavour as Commons soup. I've never seen any unidentifiable bits. Plus you get to drink it out of a polystyrene cup. It gives it that distinctive tang.

rsynnott

punka wrote:

but then where does all your stuff go? you've heaps more disposable income to spend on accumulating stuff - and you need somewhere to store it, no?

We've been through that; it goes on coffee :rolleyes:

cuckoo

I had a nice cup of coffee in Starbucks in dundrum today - they sell Fairtrade so it had that placebo effect of the ethical taste.

snorlax

it can burn out your stomach if you buy a strong blend and haven't eatten anything.

Cuckoo im shocked you don't go to cafe moda in Rathmines (10% student discount, and they do great coffee, and cosy seats upstairs. shockingly the waiter who was serving me there on sunday evening couldn't advise me on a flavour as he didnt even drink coffee:eek::eek::eek:, i hope i didnt scare him!).

prices are as follows 1.99 americano(moda) vs starbucks 2.50, 2.05eur java(mild tangy flavour)/ or columbian flavour(stronger) vs 2.50-2.75/80(starbucks), frappacino =4.50(starbucks).
and with the 10 % discount it's even less the price i just listed to you.

also they do lovely hot chocolates with marshmellows