Variety Coffee Roasters

One of the best places I’ve ever worked from — and take it from someone who’s worked online across 4 continents! 🌍💻 Variety Coffee nails it with its cozy yet vibrant atmosphere, comfy seating, and chill vibes — perfect for getting things done. ☕️✨ The coffee? Top-tier. Smooth, rich, and brewed with care. And please do yourself a favor and try the banana bread — seriously one of the best I’ve ever had. 🍌🍞 Huge shoutout to the staff — super friendly, welcoming, and just plain cool. 🙌 Whether you’re in grind mode or just want to relax, this spot hits the mark. Highly recommend!

This review is about sustainability only! 🙂 I so appreciate that you do indeed offer real, ceramic and glass cups for people to enjoy when they have their beverages in house at variety. But it seems that the majority of your customers who are working from or meeting friends here either don’t know about the reusable and sustainable option, or are choosing not to go with it. It is a true shame to see so much single-use plastic waste created in mere hours every single day by folks who could otherwise enjoy their coffees without making needless trash. Perhaps you could encourage your baristas to ask very clarifying questions when people are placing their order, like if they will be enjoying their drink for here. Perhaps you could also put a sign up at the bar, letting people know that the option for a real mug is available. Perhaps you could incentivize that customers bring their own mugs for a small discount, or a feature on your social media. All would be excellent alternatives to the giant mass of plastic trash that comes out of this café each day. As hopefully most of us know by now, the ocean will be filled with more plastic than fish by 2050. 95% of the plastics that we produce and use are not recycled, but rather head to the landfill, off to our oceans, or get burned in an incinerator. We consume these plastics—which are made from fossil fuels—as micro plastics that are brimming with chemicals and toxins. It is up to both the purveyor and the customer to do good by our planet, and my hope is that you can better serve our beautiful waterfront neighborhood and city by helping us to create less plastic waste. Thank you for considering these suggestions! Love your coffee, love your ambiance, but think with some clear communication about sustainable options, you could really knock it out of the park.

It was my first time walking in to this coffee shop with my family including my newborn. We barely got past the front door and asked if they were still open when she rudely said I guess yea while rolling her eyes as she looked at the time on her cashier screen. I realized she was closing and she said JUST come in you already walked on the floor be careful. I guess she just also finished mopping. She repeated for us to just walk in and I said no it’s ok thank you (even though by that point she was already showing how she really felt so why would I ? ) and while we were leaving she decided to mumble something as I was by the door. That’s what made me write this review. I opened the door again and asked her to repeat herself and she didn’t bother to look up again clearly knowing she was in the wrong. I wanted to give her a piece of my mind but decided to leave it here instead as I wouldn’t want this to happen to another customer. I completely understand being frustrated to have a customer walking in last minute while closing. However theirs ways to communicate this without having to treat others in the manner that she did which was beyond rude. Needless to say I won’t be going back there ever again but I hope the owners of this location are aware the type of worker they have behind the counter. BTW this happened on Sunday May 18 around 8:40PM