Coffee Shops Orlando – Is Orlando Coffee any Good? In a Word, No! Rant Coming Up

I am a coffee fanatic. I love the stuff and have been partaking since I was 11 or 12. So let’s discuss coffee shops in Orlando and Orlando coffee in general.

Okay in my opinion there is no good coffee to be had anywhere in this town. Except my house where I roast my own. I buy the green coffee beans online and so I always have super fresh and wonderful coffee. Granted, it took me a while to perfect roasting, but it’s not hard at all. So I guess I’m spoiled because when I order coffee out it is just awful to me. It is either so weak I can see the bottom of my cup (my mom loves this) where one drop of cream turns it white, or it is completely overroasted and burnt (I’m looking at you, Starbucks).

Oh yes, and not to mention stale. First of all, coffee doesn’t last very long to begin with, only about a week or two. And freezing it doesn’t help, by the way. So by the time these places have their overroasted and burnt coffee trucked in from their main warehouse which is probably located across the country, there’s really no hope for it. Even if it was roasted correctly it would be stale by the time it arrived. At my house coffee is never more than 3 or 4 days old, which is ideal, but up to a week or even 2 weeks is “okay.”

Yeah, I’m a picky fanatic, I know. But I do know good coffee. I haven’t found any yet here in O-town so if anyone (people who actually know what good coffee is, not Folgers drinkers or Starbucks fans) knows where to find any, feel free to comment. I’d love to give it a try. I’ve actually tried a few independently owned coffee shops but not one of them actually roasted their own coffee. That’s just bizarre to me. If you are going to go to the trouble of opening up a coffee shop, at least have the common decency to roast your own!

Frankly, I think most people don’t really care because they have already gotten used to grocery store (stale) coffee and don’t even know what good coffee actually tastes like.

Well that’s it for today’s rant. I will say that I do enjoy the Cafe Mocha at the cafe inside of Books A Million, but that is because the coffee itself is crushed under the weight of chocolate, milk, and whipped cream. It’s quite yummy though.

coffee of yesteryear