Lily S.
Yelp
OK this place needs to get noticed more!!! How is such a chic coffee shop nestled in a chic neighborhood only having 2 Yelp reviews under its belt? Well, maybe I need to bring more friends here to have excellent crafted coffee!
It was an accident that we discovered Middle State Coffee. The one closest to our lunch spot that day was closing early for the upcoming Labor Day holiday, so we went a little out of the way, dealt with street parking, to get here. The not-so-big coffee shop was already 2/3 filled with customers sipping their drinks and working on their laptops. We did still find a place to sit inside but also noticed cute patio furniture right outside.
The menu both surprised and delighted us, we saw things like Dalgona coffee and Espresso soda which are rare finds! I couldn't decide between Dalgona and an Affogato but the girly barista carefully explained each drink to me and ultimately, I decided on the Affogato since I wanted "real" coffee and not "instant." (To the Dalgona's defense, my friend who ordered it said it was delicious!).
Affogatos are those things that you almost can't get wrong, right? I mean, how can you mess up coffee with ice cream? As in, how would anyone complain about an Apple Pie A La Mode being not good? HOWEVER, I've never had an affogato THIS GOOD. I know the scoop of ice cream is vanilla bean, not sure if homemade or store brought, but it was the quality of the espresso, and the way it was carefully handcrafted, that swept me off the floor! I've been having dreams about it ever since leaving Middle State Coffee!
A guy friend ordered the Espresso soda and was very pleased with it. He said recently he had a bad drink of the same kind at another coffee house and was a little worried about ordering it here.
I wouldn't order the waffles again here unless you have a kid you're trying to calm down (in our case, that was it!) because waffles aren't their specialty, I can have better elsewhere. But the coffee, and the barista who is so good at her craft, are hard to beat!