Barriques

Great place for a first date when you don’t want to spend too much. It’s a great atmosphere that offers both coffee for a brunch date or beer if you’re having lunch. The prices were affordable, with excellent food to top it off. Maybe the cashier was new, but it took her a while to get our order correct, which is why they are getting 4 stars.
Check them out though, you’ll love it!

Parking is a bit of a nightmare, but I can see why the place was packed with locals mid-​afternoon on a Saturday. The baristas were friendly, there’s delicious looking baked goods, they have beer on tap and a quaint, quiet but fun atmosphere. My iced coffee was delicious. Not sure what else you could want. I’ll definitely stop in again.

The staff here is always exceptionally kind to me, even when I have to stare at the menu to figure our what I want.
I tried the German chocolate cake specialty drink and it was delicious, rich chocolate, coconut, and expresso is a very good combination.
The breakfast sandwich was about fist sized, so a bit small, but the egg was just right and toasty. I would have liked more cheese though. But I always want more cheese!

I end up at this Barriques bi weekly for an amazing iced almond milk latte and treats. But something has happened recently and their sandwich game is terrible. My friend got the saddest grilled cheese sandwich (it looked like they buttered it with a cheese spread) and tomato basil soup (which tasted like a chunky marinara sauce). And the following day I purchased the turkey club sandwich which promises avocado and applewood smoked bacon for $ 8.50. I received neither on my sandwich. What I saw instead was a slim amount of what I would call an avocado spread and one very pitiful piece of normal bacon. I will attach a photo and you can decide if this is in fact false advertising!
Fix your sandwich game Barriques Park St! The Monroe St. location seemed fine the last time I was there. And the employees and iced almond milk lattes are always on point! 5 stars for the employees!

Perfectly adequate is a good description for my one visit
I ordered a cappuccino and a breakfast sandwich (on a Saturday at about 9am).
Let’s talk about the cappuccino:
It was extremely burnt tasting. I don’t want to judge it too harshly because, it was the first and only time I’ve been there, but I it was unexpected.
Breakfast Sandwich:
This was great! It was very simple, just an egg with really good cheddar on a roll. And it was less than $ 3. Better than an egg McMuffin to say the least :)
It was not busy at all when I went, but there is lots of seating, so it would have to get very busy before that would be an issue.

Awesome coffee shop, my favorite in Madison, even more than Collectivo. I like this location the best, even though all are good. I go NUTS when they serve lobster bisque YMMM

I love this place! They have an excellent tea selection and the atmosphere is phenomenal. Great prices, friendly staff! I hate the parking at this location but it’s worth the hassle!

This is a great place to read, meet with somebody, or just relax with some great coffee. I’d recommend their Miel and their drip coffee.

I will give credit where credit is due and Barriques has improved since my previous rant about their frequent kinks in reserving their semi-​private space. Whew! So that’s been a relief, they have been pretty consistent about posting signs and helping politely advise other patrons that the space is reserved when they are sitting in the room.
I still love the light-​filled atmosphere but this place still remains pretty darn s.l.ooooo.w with the food/​beverage service on most days I’m in there so I stand by the rest of my prior review! Regardless, I’ll keep heading back because it’s right around the corner. I’m a sucker for proximity.

We tried Barriques this past Friday because my wife and I like to talk on our date nights. The place we normally frequent (on east Wash) has taken to playing loud music. I found the service to be somewhat perfunctory, but chalked that up to overzealous expectations from our prior establishment. We felt the environment to be warm and inviting. The coffee (I had a magnum latte) was exquisitely decorated, and tasted delicious.
We will be back.

Delicious food and coffee. We got fast service and our food was made to the T. Yummy.

Great place for breakfast! Probably any meal but I’ve only been here for breakfast.
I had the avocado jack breakfast sandwich and a café míel for breakfast and it was fantastic.
The avocado jack breakfast wrap had tomatoes, spinach, pepper jack cheese, eggs and of course avocado. You can add bacon for an extra 1.25 which I highly suggest.
My boyfriend had the breakfast sandwich which was also awesome and under $ 3.
I loved the seating also by the big windows.
Great place to come read and study (a little noisy sometimes) but nice.

We had a cinnamon bun that tasted like it came from the three day old cart at Walmart. The wrap we had was mostly spinach with a little bit of egg. There was a miniscule amount of cheese on one part. On the other end was some sort of green mush, that I can only assume was the advertised avocado. I do not struggle with hipster-​ism so the industrial type décor did not resonate with me, however it was done well so I had to give the second star. If your looking for breakfast and you don’t need the artistic atmosphere, then go to McDonald’s and ask them to microwave a salad… It would probably taste similar.

Well doesn’t this Barrique’s location have just the best customer service EVER! If you know me well, you know I drink cold brew 365, so when cafes stop carrying during the months it’s obscene to sip something cold, I make it at home, using a pound of Full Bore from Barrique’s, 10 cups of water, and two-​ish days steeping in a dark corner. I’ll cut that ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ with water and that pretty much fuels me from December until May. Here’s the thing, on my last visit, the machine mutilated my beans, whereas almost every other time I’ve picked up a bag the ground has been a tad course. I pointed it out to the barista, she showed her manager, and within minutes they were grinding another pound on a different machine. They explained that although the machines get pretty regularly services, sometimes things can be out of whack. I was appreciative they were willing to give me a do over, a level of service and attention that’ll keep me coming back! (Now if they could only brighten up that dark little room. When tables up front are full I go into full sleep mode pulling up a chair in the darker of the two spaces.)

I like this café’s cozy interior and tasty food but the occasional roasting sounds can drive you nuts.
Beverages: All the coffeehouse options you would expect, although I think they don’t have the superfancy coffeeoptions (Aeropress, Chemex, what have you)
Barriques offers enough food options for you to truly get a meal here – mostly wraps and sandwiches. Sandwich options are chips, potato salad, or greens. Salads come with a roll. Pastries of the scone&cookie variety are also good options. The breakfast egg sandwich is a deal – less than $ 3 !
The exterior offers integrated bike racks into the building and the interior has the famous wall of wine – 100 cheap wines! Much of the building remodel used recycled materials.
All the beans for Barriques and a few select restaurants in Madison are roasted at the back of the coffeeshop and there is not significant sound isolation (the dividing walls don’t even go all the way up to the ceiling. Roasting occurs five days a week, so there’s a good chance you’ll hear the noise of the drum roaster. The noise is really the only significant deterrent against sitting in this coffeeshop for me, but it’s significant. When the drum roaster is at full speed it’s VERY loud.

I like Barriques in general but this location has not impressed me. Slooowwwwwww service, even at hours where a quick in and out is important for most people (I was ordering in, and my drink took 10 minutes and sandwich 20; I saw another woman in line have to wait 10 minutes for regular coffee she could’ve dispensed herself, though!) The HVAC system makes aggressively loud noises when they’re roasting coffee, presumably because it’s sort of a warehouse feel and so it’s not well insulated — it sounds like you’re sitting under a jet taking off. Delicious as ever, but the ambience and service here? No thanks.

Found a new hang out place when I’m in town! I passed this place a whole lot of time in the past but I finally decided to stop in. I needed a place to park myself and do some work, and I thought of it almost immediately.
When I came in, I saw a very attractive blonde gorgeous lady cop getting an iced tea. I am no lesbian but I could see her being in some guys’ fantasy. Cuff me, officer. Cuff me now.
I digress.
I don’t usually pay appreciation to the same sex beauty but I guess it was one of those days. That’s why my reviews are solid as I give credit when credit is due.
The place was cute and first thing I looked for was electrical plugs. I saw a bunch and I felt instantly at ease. I ordered my cappuccino. I was disappointed they didn’t ask me if I wanted a real cup or to go as they gave me a to go cup. I wanted a real mug and planted myself there for at least a couple hours.
It wasn’t a big deal though. The coffee was delicious! I was more than ecstatic over it. The place was great for people watching too. They had all kinds of activities. There were two older women reunited after years not seeing each other. There was a job interview going on right in front of me and this lady teacher that had red hair and freckles are teaching salsa dancing. There was a cute guy dressing like he rode his bike there, and he’s all alone. I was hoping he made eye contact until his less attractive girlfriend showed up. There were students studying, people on dates drinking wine. There’s a lady in a lululemon sweatshirt that I wanted and she ordered a breakfast dish that smelled so good. There was a girl with a huge braid made of tiny strands of more braided hair.
I had some stuff done but it could have been a lot more if I didn’t get distracted with the interesting stuff around me.
I checked out their wine selections and it was pretty cool. I even picked up a bottle of Viognier to go.
Low points were they had a dingy filtered water dispenser that need to be replaced. They didn’t have Stevia for sweeteners, and though I was grateful they had parkings, I was worried sick if I would curb it and scratch my wheels. It was so cramped and tiny. But all was fine. Lastly, it was rather hot inside. I didn’t know why they didn’t keep it cool and comfy. I also got bitten by mosquitos inside.
So drank coffee, people watching, work, and trying to kill mosquito and scratched my legs half of the time. I’ll come back in a heartbeat!

After not being at a Barriques for a very long time we decided to give this location a try. I like it very much. The décor is nice and inviting. We received good service, the internet was good, and the people watching fun. I had a frappé and a slice of lemon poppy seed bread. Both were really yummy. The music is nice, not too loud. Parking could be better but that would be my only complaint.

Barriques has reliably good coffee, rich and well brewed. They have honey and real spoons at the fixings stand, a big plus for those of us picky people who can’t stand defiling coffee with sugar or wooden stir sticks. Their lunchtime offerings are surprisingly good, as well. An extensive wine collection pretty much covers one wall. I don’t know of any other place in town that carries Zapp’s potato chips, a treat from New Orleans. Nice place to hang out, and it works for business meetings, too. Solid 4 stars from me.

In a word: neat. The person I was meeting was late, which gave me a chance to peruse the wall-​o-​wine. Good coffee, parking kinda stinks, but overall nice little hang out. It makes me want to show up with my laptop so I can look like I’m doing something important while quaffing top-​rate coffee.
Okay…Yelping.