Wiesenhof Coffees Tokai – Latte review
Posted by Bug-E on October 12th, 2006
This morning’s latte is compliments of Wiesenhof Coffees in Tokai, at the new Pick’n'Pay building. Well, it’s not new anymore, but it’s newer than the old one that used to be there.
I actually wanted to go to the PnP to get some more Frosties (Hey, at R9.99 a packet, you go back for more!), but they only opened at 8am, and I didn’t want to wait 15 minutes, so I just popped into Wiesenhof to get some caffeine-in-a-cup.
Cha-Ching! R9.95 later, I have a small, yet stylishly branded latte. Sippy-cup lid and all. The nice lady behind the counter made it all fresh using one of those really nice coffee-shop proper espresso machines, and even added a little bit of milk froth on top. No chocolate sprinkles, cheap skates. Two sugars go in, stir with a stick, and off I go.
I had to walk to the car quick-like. That cup was hot. Too hot to hold. Good thing I still have that cardboard cup-holder from when I sampled the McDonald’s coffee… It must have been a good 15 minutes before I could take the first sip without burning my tongue.
Nice, smooth coffee, medium strength, with a slight smokey after taste. Quite a nice taste. 2 sugars was just the right amount for that cup, I quite enjoyed it. R10 for that small cup is a bit pricey for my liking though. I noticed under the cup it says “8oz Hot Cup”. So ja, our small cups seem to be 8oz cups… And according to Google, that’d be 0.236588237 liters, or just under one standard measuring cup. But still, R10 for that is still a bit pricey, but this time around it was worth it, it was a good cup of coffee…
Anyway, Wiesenhof Coffees also does a nice R10 breakfast, had it before (well, had two in one go). R10 for a slice of toast, an egg and a rasher of bacon. Only between 8:00 and 8:30, no exceptions. The waiters actually check the wall clock when they place the order. 
And they even have a guy sitting in the corner playing guitar sometimes, all in all, a nice coffee shop to go sit and chill. And drink some nice coffee indeed.
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October 27th, 2006 at 08:35:48
[...] “Coffee, tea, juice or mineral water sir?” After the japanese tourist next to me grunted and pointed at the orange juice, I opted for coffee. (This was a 6:45 flight after all, I can do with any wake-up juice I can get!). “Milk and sugar sir?” “Ayup! 2 sugars please!” I an 8oz cup of filter coffee, with milk. The branding on the cup? Wiesenhoff! Heh! The sugars go in, and I stir with the plastic spoon I used to eat the yogurt with. The damn attendant woman didn’t give me a stirring stick. And as luck would have it (Murphy being on every flight I’m sure…), the flight goes a tad bit bumpy as I get my coffee. Not bad enough to worry though. The coffee was actually good. Not too strong, not pissy weak, with no after-taste at all. [...]
March 16th, 2007 at 08:09:25
You are correct. Those cups are DAMN hot and mine said 250ml and not 8oz.