Bruce F.
Yelp
Really hate to love Hovey & Harrison, but I do. It's difficult to tolerate a bakery and coffee shop (yes, they serve delicious salads and sandwiches, too) that makes the decision for me that I shouldn't consume refined sugar or Splenda artificial sweetener. It's not as though those delicious monkey breads and cookies and macarons and muffins are examples of healthy cuisine, and that's exactly my point.
Why serve ABSOLUTELY DECADENTLY DELICIOUS baked goods filled to the brim with refined sugar and butter, and decide to put out only sugar in the raw (which as you all know, isn't sweet AT ALL) for your coffee drinking patrons??
I can't help it. I like my coffee sweet. I have a genetic mutation that is only satisfied by sweet coffee. Yes, that means Splenda. No, it doesn't mean Stevia. Why? Because you all know that, just like sugar in the raw, Stevia ain't sweet (enough).
On numerous occasions, before I got smart, I walked in and then out of H & H after remembering they don't provide sugar or Splenda with coffee. Then, I finally asked a person behind the counter if, on the DL, she could sneak me a few tspns of sugar from the bakery kitchen an voila, the world's problems all disappeared. I was finally able to have my monkey bread and NOT have to go across the street to Starbucks for coffee and Splenda.
So, in the unlikely event anyone in management reads these crazy reviews, please, please, please consider a variety of coffee sweeteners. No one will look down on a bakery that allows its customers to indulge. Love you, H and H.