The Coffee Builders

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2025-03-16

I absolutely loved the Coffee Builders. I ordered the Fire and Ice Kentucky Forward, which is an iced coffee drink with smoke. The presentation blew me away. Like a cocktail, but no alcohol in it. They won an award in the barista competition (photo below). I love the creativity they bring to the coffee drinks. I tried another drink, the Bourbon Vanilla Latte. This time the latte was warm with a vanilla flavor. Both were good but I would order the Fire and Ice next time because you can’t get that anywhere else. The ambience of this coffee shop is fun and reminds me of inside a movie theater. When I visited the theme was romantic comedy movies. Later on they will switch to a Star Wars theme. So cool. This is not your run of the mill coffee shop. Go here for a whole coffee experience. Props to Thomas, the owner, for the concept of Coffee Builders and for creating such a cool interior from his other business next door.

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2025-03-19

Neat lil coffee shop! The outside does not showcase how amazing the interior is. The champagne deviled eggs and Ube waffles were chefs kiss. Def recommend the Bourbon Vanilla Latte!

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2025-01-18

1/18/25: Short version - what a pleasant surprise Coffee Builders was. There's more parking than you would think, a lot more seating as well (outside anyway), and a larger menu than I was expecting. Definitely a place we would visit again. Longer version - the ball park is close by but it's still in an area I would have dubbed "sketchy". It's a building that looks relatively new so I always thought it was out of place, and my bad for thinking it was small and had crappy parking. The parking lot there on 7th St has about six or so spots but surprise to us, there is a larger parking lot in the back to accommodate CB and the few other stores close by. That's what happens when you drive by quickly and don't Google map a place: you make wrong assumptions and miss out eating / drinking at a really cool place. The inside is well decorated, has plush seating, was a bit cramped looking though for my taste buy hey! another surprise: they have a substantial sized patio north of the building. They do have heat lamps and I noticed misters for our hot summer months. Awesome! They have a pretty large drink menu and fairly substantial food menu as well, including paninis, lavash, and more importantly pastries. :-) My sister said her chocolate pistachio drink did not have a lot of flavor, that she would get something next time; my bourbon vanilla hot chocolate was good despite not tasting the bourbon (ha ha); the strawberry rhubarb pastry was extremely flaky; the prime, pimento, & blue panino was delicious; and finally, the mini ube waffles were pretty good although I not good enough to get again -- not with all the other items to choose from and explore. I will say the patio chairs were a tad ... odd. My sister is a large person and she felt they were too narrow. In my opinion they were very short in depth, meaning the seat edge ended closer to my butt than my knees. I will say they are the heaviest patio chairs we have encountered so good luck trying to steal one. LOL! The presentation of the beverages & meals was well done, and though the pastry came on a glass plate, the hard plates used for the meals are made out of pressed palm leaves so 1) they were pretty damn sturdy, and 2) are compostable (based on my research). I love this! All in all, for two people's drinks, meals, and one pastry, a bill of $65 (incl. tip) although some may say a bit high for breakfast, we both agree it was worth it. And yes, it will be on my list of "let's go there again" places to eat / drink.