Cafe Afson

Excellent americano. Really nice owner.

Great coffee, super nice owner. What more can you ask for in a neighborhood coffee shop? Love it.

Stylish white pleather chairs and nice windows in this small café one block from Davie Street. I remember having had very good iced coffee here but that was about a year and a half ago. I decided to try it out again and ordered an iced soy mocha. Following the Blenz trend, I was asked if I wanted dark, milk or «white». I would love to know who decided to add a product without cacao to the chocolate family. I asked for dark and watched unhappily as the man behind the counter put several pumps of some kind of liquid into a cup.
This drink was terrible. It was the kind of «mocha» you would make if you were being pestered by a 10 year old for a coffee drink. Sweet enough to make your teeth hurt and the size of a Slurpee with no discernable coffee flavour, though I saw the coffee being poured in. Strangely, it had a subtle taste of mould. I wonder if the fact that they serve bubble tea has affected the way they make coffee drinks. Behind glass was a selection of baked goods including the often abused, factory made, white –toned croissant.

Good coffees, and the mochas are great, but nothing a college student could/​should afford daily. 5 bucks? No thank you.
The owner is a very nice man and makes an effort to remember regulars and he has his own paintings on the walls, but I question some of his practices, like hiring nubile, attractive, airheaded young girls (AND ONLY GIRLS) to work the place for approximately 2 – 3 months before they mysteriously disappear. (and I know what it’s like to work at a coffee shop… I used to! But I’ve never seen anyone come and go quite like this) Due to this extremely rapid employee turnover rate, it seems that the staff is in a perpetual state of training so they very frequently screw your orders up. That and the price of the delicious mochas and lattes have forced me to stop going here.