Café Revisit: Te Aro Roasted

Long overdue long-term review of @TeAroCoffee with impressions from many visits

The coffee during my last visit was not something that I was raving about, but I have found this trend to be usually the case lately during my Saturday visits. Well executed preparation, but coffee that is underwhelming, particularly the caramel astringency that appears in enough shots and sometimes ashy aftertastes. When I have bought the coffee home to pull, similar taste are also confirmed. This for me is frustrating as I have occasionally had some very nice shots of Te Aro Roasted single origin coffee in Leslieville as well as at Fahrenheit over the last year, but the frequency is not great. For this reason, I tend to visit Mercury Espresso Bar more often which is very close by. Mercury has also has quite consistently good preparation and the espresso offerings are much more often towards my taste, especially in terms of cleanliness, lacking bitterness, woodiness, and ...

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