Zanzibar's Coffee Adventure

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2024-12-03

My Dad and I stopped in for breakfast during the holiday season and had an enjoyable morning before heading back on the road towards the Quad Cities. The coffee was hot and piping which I enjoyed! The breakfast was tasty and just the right portion. The cafe itself was very functional with people coming to get their beans and grounds to take home while others of us were enjoying our brew and bites in the cafe. If you're visiting Des Moines, make sure to stop by for an enjoyable experience!

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2025-03-08

This is a great coffee shop if you're looking for ambiance; a good local place to read a book or have a good conversation with someone. Also, they have a variety of in-store roasted, quality international-origin coffee options. I go for the coffee, and the above activities, so I can't say how the food is although they appear to have a pretty broad menu of meal and pastry items. An important thing to note is they don't have wifi, which is fine with me, but it's something to be aware of if coffeeshops serve as a co-working space or place to do school work for you.

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2025-02-08

Cute little coffee shop and roaster, when I saw them online I saw that they roasted their own coffee, with known single origins, which is rather rare. I go in, but unfortunately they don't serve the coffee they roast, and have poorly roasted cheap Mexican as the one they serve. The grinder they have is good, but a poor espresso machine that tastes like it pulled the shot cold. I asked for a latte, and milk was frothed poorly, and they served it to me in a bowl with no handle. They sell a chemex, along with filters for it, but they use basically a drip coffee maker to make non-espresso drinks. They have good coffee beans, they have a good grinder, they are so close to serving good drinks, but they just fall so short.