Sara’s Flowers Cafe

Recently Sara’s Flower Café have been advertising that they serve real espresso made from fresh coffee beans. Being a coffee geek I felt I needed to go and check it out. First off I have to say it’s a lovely quirky café full of decorative items, flowers and home made foods to buy. It’s very bright and welcoming and probably the nicest place to sit and have a non alcoholic drink in Stocksbridge. I had nothing to eat in the café so I can’t comment on the food, my review is solely from a coffee lovers point of view. First off I had an Americano, and I have to say I was hugely dissapointed. I expected it be near perfect after I saw the espresso maker in the shop. It was served with no crème at all and I could hardly taste the espresso flavor. It was just like a very weak watered down coffee, so weak that it almost looked like a cup of tea (without milk!). Undoubtedly the worse Americano ever! I wondered whether the owner had ever had a proper Americano before. Surely if you’re going to put the expense into selling such beverages you should at least take the time to go and learn how they should be prepared. I really hope he reads this review and visits a Café Nero, Starbucks or Costa etc and experiences a proper Americano, ie decent crème, and strong! After the Americano I had an espresso which was just about perfect. Probably not as strong as I’d have liked but thick crème and very nice. However the owners lack of experience or knowledge about coffee really came to light when I asked for the it. He asked if I wanted it in a normal size cup or an espresso cup and then he asked if I wanted it with milk!!! C’mon pal, sort it out!!!
I’ll certainly not be back for coffee until I hear they’ve started doing things properly. I wish them all the luck in the world though because this place has potential and the food does look superb, especially the homemade cakes. Please please please sort your coffee out!