Love the vibe, very cozy, relaxing, and love the real ceramic mugs the offer for dine in, coffee tastes so much better in non paper cups. Support this business!
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Breakfast
Price per person
$1–10
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
No coffee beans for sale. The coffee I got wasn't good. The sandwich was bad. The barista was nice though.
Service
Take out
Meal type
Breakfast
Food: 1
Service: 4
Atmosphere: 2
Based on the reviews here on Google for 29th Parallel, my expectations were high. Unfortunately, after my visit, I find it hard to believe most of these reviews are legitimate.
The negatives:
1. The seating area felt dirty and rundown.
2. My wife ordered a hot tea. I was surprised to see on the receipt that we had been charged almost $5 for an Earl Grey tea bag. I could understand the price being higher if the tea had been loose leaf tea, but $4.70 before tax for an Earl Grey tea bag was $1-1.50 more than I would expect. I also made note while we were in the shop of the fact that the tea prices were not listed on the menu (you can see this in photos on other reviews).
3. The dirty chai had hardly any flavor and tasted like it was just a watered-down chai tea bag. I am not convinced the barista actually added the espresso to the chai. The price of the dirty chai per the menu was $6.95. However, when reviewing my digital receipt, I noticed the barista charged me an additional $1.50 for an espresso shot. I would assume that the dirty chai (chai + espresso) price should include the cost of the espresso? So, unfortunately, I paid $8.45 + tax for a drink that tasted like an already-used chai tea bag over some hot water.
4. The menu lists two different prices for each drink: dine-in and to-go. The barista did not ask us whether we were staying or taking our coffees to go, but rang us up and charged us the to-go price (we were planning to stay). The shop was open for two more hours and there were other customers seated in the shop, so I do not know why the barista ringing us up would make the assumption we wanted our drinks to-go without asking us. I could understand this being the case if we had shown up right before closing.
Service
Dine in
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
