Comments on: Sensory Lab

By: john

john — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:18:04 +0000

i have been there with friends a few times over the past month. first time was pretty good and they showed us the menus and explained things. a few people around us were not happy though as their coffees didn’t come out. i should have taken this as a warning sign…

second time they took ages serving us but the coffee was good and we assumed it was a bad day for them so we were happy to come back.

today was the third and LAST time we went there. the service was shocking, it took us 15 minutes to be served our coffee after we placed our order and that is only because i reminded them. when we got the coffees they were watery and bitter. terrible stuff.

i am sick of people kissing the arse of these over-hyped coffee places which all seem to be owned by the same group of people. this place in particular is a let down. won’t be returning.

By: Emiko

Emiko — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:09:48 +0000

I had same experience with Tracey, and I also got disappointed with “THE SYPHON COFFEE”.
Well, taste is not “CLEAN” as i used to have syphon coffee in JAPAN.

I guess the Barista is too busy to looking around people walking through David Johnes.

Making coffee is like ZEN. Concentrating is very important, and that shows the clean coffee I think.

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:00:01 +0000

Tracey, I’m sorry that they weren’t helpful enough.

While I was there, I was quite interested in the different methods of coffee extraction as well. Contrary to your experience, this nice asian lady (can’t remember her name) was very helpful and went through all the methods and differences between them with me, and that was during a very busy day.

Let’s hope your experience there will be better next time.