Toronto: Latte Art at Bulldog Coffee
Posted by TheShot on 25 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
Some of us coffee freaks out there are often dumbfounded when a local in another city suddenly stumbles upon a coffee institution we otherwise know all too well. For example, take this local’s “discovery” of Bulldog Coffee, and latte art, in Toronto: Latte Art at Bulldog Coffee.
Maybe it’s not quite like being Catholic and having some Roman local tell you that they suddenly stumbled across the Vatican. But sometimes it’s close.
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[...] Yesterday’s Toronto Star featured a few interviews on what it takes to make a great espresso — including the opinions of Stuart Ross, an award-winning barista and co-owner of Bulldog Coffee in Toronto, and Coulter Jones, the 2006 Canadian barista champion from Vancouver’s Caffe Artigiano. [...]
The owner was super rude and don’t respect their customer!!!
I got up to the owner to order my coffee, I excitedly told him I saw them on the show, told him how I thought the cafe looks great. I happily asked if he could recommend me a drink. Instead of appreciating the fact that I was paying them a compliment, he snapped snobbishly at me saying…
“ahum.. that’s not the way it works here…i put in a shot of espresso and your job is to pick which cup size you want. You see..I won some XXX coffee reward (pointed at 1 small plaque from 2005 on the wall ) and that’s not how I run my business”…clearly my excitement about the place was gone… geezz all I wanted was coffee… plus the design on the coffee was so sloppy.
I found out later, I’m not the only one who experienced this. See reviews http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/451268
Ugh. Chowhound. Those people are the worst. Whenever we start fretting about being overly insufferable and pretentious snobs, we just visit Chowhound to clear that right up.
If we could create a business that did nothing but offend self-indulgent Chowhound posters — with their airs of preciousness and petty entitlement that would make a vilified Marie Antoinette blush — we would do it with glee. Even better would be to air-drop them in the Congo, forcing them to eat locusts and U.N. rations for a year while living in refugee camps. Then we’ll see who still spews distressing rants about carrot juice foam that’s too dry and wait staff that don’t worship the chair they sit in.
So in that sense, while it definitely sounds like you had a negative experience at Bulldog Coffee, your Chowhound reference backfires a bit: it actually raises our respect for Bulldog. Until someone exhumes Dante Alighieri to define a tenth Circle of Hell just for Chowhound posters, we’re going to have to politely ask for second opinions and references.
Definitely snoby… product is one of the best in Toronto, but the staff’s attitude make me sick.