Mod Cup Truck

Coffee Snobs Rule… Tres’bien !

Sometimes, break room blends from the Keurig machine just don’t cut it, and Mod Cup always makes a strong contender for the best coffee in Jersey City.
Thankfully, this retro-​looking coffee wagon provides the occasional caffeine fix just outside the Exchange Place PATH station. While being limited to just a few blends, espresso drinks, and (when available) a nitro cold brew, the Mod Cup Truck strikes a blow at nearby Starbucks… provided you don’t mind waiting in that biting winter breeze coming off the shore of the Hudson.

Coffee is pretty fresh, their current Ethiopian blend is a little bitter, but that’s just my personal taste and they have had some great beans in the past. I will not be going back for two reasons: first the wait, they routinely take 7 – 15 minutes to prepare a cup of coffee. I know they take it seriously, but i have been to many coffee houses all over the world and never experienced such a long preparation time. Secondly and most importantly their customer service is appalling. The owner routinely and arrogantly provides poor service to his customers. I have seen him do it a number of times and puts himself above people due to his superior knowledge of coffee — a massive coffee snob! I’m ok with your appreciation of coffee, I even gave you the benefit of the doubt for taking too long to prepare it, but putting your customers down is bad business, so you’ve lost me. The final straw was today when I asked for more milk in my latte (because the new brew is decidedly more bitter than former brews), he told me that he wouldn’t do it because this was a coffee shop, not a milk shop and to appreciate the coffee, it’s not about the size.
Thanks for the education mate…

Had a cup at the «all about downtown fair». One of the best cups of coffee I have ever had.

Gotta deduct a star for two things. First, they haven’t had the nitro cold brew for weeks. If it’s not on the menu, take it off the menu. Really too bad because it’s a unique drink that I’ve never seen anywhere else. Second, today a colleague and I asked for the nitro (which they predictably didn’t have) and so both ordered a drip coffee. The guy serving poured two americanos and said «here’s your drip». If he’d simply said «we’re out of drip, we have americanos,» I would have had no problem with it. Instead, he seemed to knowingly serve both of us the wrong drink.
Again, great quality coffee, but menu consistency seems to be a problem.