Prepare yourself to be served by ice queens who scorn all students that aren’t wearing meadowlark jewellery or button-down shirts. This café caters more to older clientele – you’re likely to see lecturers and professors sipping away at trim lattes and marking some poor freshers’ essays. Allpress is also popular with highly-strung law girls drenched in Karen Walker and Stolen Girlfriends Club who knock back the bitter Allpress beans to ease their morning dump.
As you enter the doors of Allpress, try your best to hide your interior design boner when exposed to the wood and polished concrete erotica. M is a huge fan of their long blacks as they give you the espresso shot in the mug accompanied by hot water. You get to choose how long your black is.
For the home baristas, Allpress also sells single origin beans for yo’ personal grind. The coffee is pretty damn good if you’re into strong coffee with a bite. We give them points for serving double shot standards and triple shot larges, but beware that if you order a triple shot coffee they may serve it to you in a large takeaway cup, whether you wanted all that extra milk or not.
G was unimpressed that they did not have cinnamon for her cappuccino, and that they charged one whole dollar for soymilk. One dollar. They are basically making a profit from the lactose intolerant population. Maybe that’s how they can afford all their nice wooden trim? They make delicious gourmet sandwiches with ingredients like provolone and artichokes, without inflating the price too much. We recommend the “country” or the “BAH-guette.”
They do serve an extremely hot coffee, so this can be an issue if you just want some caffeine to knock back before a lab (stick to snorting instant coffee). Allpress also strangely lacks the option of sweetener – whether this is because they hate diabetics or just don’t support the weight watchers movement … I don’t know.
Allpress doesn’t rely on the coffee card system for their customer return. The baristas reward their clientele by slowly defrosting their frosty service. This is oddly enticing for local patrons. M has been victim to the “treat them mean, keep them keen” regime that Allpress seems to have going on.
Be warned, if you are a fresher, pleb, or lacking on the personality front, you’ll burst into flames when crossing the threshold of Allpress.
4/5 Coffee Cups