I enjoy this coffee shop. The environment is great. Their drinks are phenomenally better than Starbucks. It's not as noisy as other coffee shops in the area. The sunlight is great in the library room.
The only downside is that one of the male baristas is not very friendly and he looks annoyed when you order a drink. He has consistently tried to close the shop 15-30 minutes early. He shuts down and cleans the machines before the end of shift so if you arrive like 15-20 minutes before closing time you might not be able to buy the drink you drove 20 minutes to get. I completely understand wanting to be efficient and needing to leave but it's inconvenient when you've driven 20 minutes across town for a to go drink based on the hours posted. He has also turned down other people so I'm not the only one with this experience.
I've been several times and female baristas are extremely friendly. Otherwise it was a 5 star experience. I just always hope I don't get the grumpy barista. It seems like I usually run into him though.
Parking: Sometimes the parking lot is full and it's hard to find a space due to the other businesses in complex.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Iced Latte
Hamdi popinara
Great coffee shop with really elegant seating area. The decoration is phenomenal. The coffee quality is amazing and the service is great and friendly, and I would recommend the tiramisu latte.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
patrick postiglione
This quiet little shop in Verona is not on the main strip of Bloomfield avenue which is nice. It's off pompton on a side street. Very quiet and calm area. They have a nice outdoor seating area that's under a gazebo, plenty of places to sit. They also have a nice indoor lounge and library where you can sit and read and enjoy your coffee. They offer many different latte options hot or iced. I had an iced cappuccino and my girlfriend had a Hot Apple Pie latte.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Iced Latte
Shale Sprecher
TL;DR: great coffee, not enough counter space for the Sunday rush can easily confuse orders, either take names or put full orders out and not piece meal them. Coffee is good. But the barista’s need help. The counter is too cluttered for the Sunday morning rush. They need more counter space to put orders out. As well a better way of telling orders apart. Today, I put my order in, and it came out. Little to my knowledge a group ordered in front of me before walking in. The order wasn’t mine, even though I pointed and got a head nod.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Yasmine Helwani
I’ve been coming to the compound for months now and the quality of the coffee is always consistent. The coffee tastes so fresh and authentic, it is very hard to go back to any coffee shop after trying the compound! The staff is very nice and the lounge area is so great to sit and get some work done. I highly recommend!
Jessica Barton
I love visiting The Compound for an intense workout, a tasty coffee (their fall menu is over the top amazing), a relaxing hour to myself, or a chat with friends- some of whom I've made at The Compound! The amazing owners and staff helped me plan a small private event that my group still talks about. This is the place!!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Katie Roehnelt
Amazing atmosphere, amazing people, amazing coffee. And if that isn’t enough, they have the best sense of community that makes you never want to leave. Whether you want to sit back and read a book, get some work done, or just hang and chat with family and friends there is something for everyone. Also, the attached gym offers a variety of classes that are all a MUST try. Coffee and a workout- what more could you need?! Cannot recommend enough!!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Drip Coffee
Cate Shipley
I was looking forward to adding a new cafe to my WFH roster, but I can’t recommend this one. The coffee was good, and there is wifi, but the volume in the seating area was too loud for work. I could hear the conversations through my noise cancelling headphones and there is no way I could have taken a meeting. There was a group of regulars (the baristas knew them by name) that was playing videos with music on full volume, talking very loudly (the benefits of adderall and how to inject yourself with testosterone) with arguing kids in tow. It’s a cute space, but if you’re looking to work and focus, I can’t recommend.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 3
Eliana Ortiz Cabrera
Best coffee in town great event library to meet up with your business partners!!
Chill atmosphere 💫🫶👌⚡️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Holly Kerin
I think this place has some of the best flavored lattes in the area. I have tried 3 or 4 of their unique flavors & been super impressed every time, they all have such different tastes but still can taste the coffee. Not too sweet or artificial. However, the staff loses them a star. Unless you are someone they know, they act like you are bothering them ordering.
I loved the coffee here! A rare gem I happened to chance upon
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Paul Harris
A real hidden gem, a soothing relaxing environment to enjoy your coffee. The staff are friendly and full of life.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Maica Andrea
Very beautiful space and good service. It was pretty calm though there's a good amount of traffic. A couple campers (people working on their laptops) It smells really good when you walk in and there's a lot of trendy seating. I would love to give them 5 stars but the food was subpar. I ordered a chai latte which was passable but not great (pretty watery) and some pre packaged blondie bites which were $15 and don't taste great- bad texture, dense, and not flavorful. Overall very visually aesthetic place but not great for coffee and food, super expensive. It's worth a visit if you're just looking for ambiance but not if you like good food/coffee. I could get better tasting treats at Wawa.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 5
Asher Hashmi
Sublime coffee with an environment to match, one of my favorite cafes
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Althea Dorsett
A fantastic find! Great coffee and atmosphere. Delicious cinnamon scroll too. Worth leaving the highway for. Crisp and homely “library” space to enjoy alone or with children. Local cute craft creations also for sale.
I enjoy this coffee shop. The environment is great. Their drinks are phenomenally better than Starbucks. It's not as noisy as other coffee shops in the area. The sunlight is great in the library room.
The only downside is that one of the male baristas is not very friendly and he looks annoyed when you order a drink. He has consistently tried to close the shop 15-30 minutes early. He shuts down and cleans the machines before the end of shift so if you arrive like 15-20 minutes before closing time you might not be able to buy the drink you drove 20 minutes to get. I completely understand wanting to be efficient and needing to leave but it's inconvenient when you've driven 20 minutes across town for a to go drink based on the hours posted. He has also turned down other people so I'm not the only one with this experience.
I've been several times and female baristas are extremely friendly. Otherwise it was a 5 star experience. I just always hope I don't get the grumpy barista. It seems like I usually run into him though.
Parking: Sometimes the parking lot is full and it's hard to find a space due to the other businesses in complex.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Iced Latte
Great coffee shop with really elegant seating area. The decoration is phenomenal. The coffee quality is amazing and the service is great and friendly, and I would recommend the tiramisu latte.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This quiet little shop in Verona is not on the main strip of Bloomfield avenue which is nice. It's off pompton on a side street. Very quiet and calm area. They have a nice outdoor seating area that's under a gazebo, plenty of places to sit. They also have a nice indoor lounge and library where you can sit and read and enjoy your coffee. They offer many different latte options hot or iced. I had an iced cappuccino and my girlfriend had a Hot Apple Pie latte.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Iced Latte
TL;DR: great coffee, not enough counter space for the Sunday rush can easily confuse orders, either take names or put full orders out and not piece meal them. Coffee is good. But the barista’s need help. The counter is too cluttered for the Sunday morning rush. They need more counter space to put orders out. As well a better way of telling orders apart. Today, I put my order in, and it came out. Little to my knowledge a group ordered in front of me before walking in. The order wasn’t mine, even though I pointed and got a head nod.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
I’ve been coming to the compound for months now and the quality of the coffee is always consistent. The coffee tastes so fresh and authentic, it is very hard to go back to any coffee shop after trying the compound! The staff is very nice and the lounge area is so great to sit and get some work done. I highly recommend!
I love visiting The Compound for an intense workout, a tasty coffee (their fall menu is over the top amazing), a relaxing hour to myself, or a chat with friends- some of whom I've made at The Compound! The amazing owners and staff helped me plan a small private event that my group still talks about. This is the place!!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing atmosphere, amazing people, amazing coffee. And if that isn’t enough, they have the best sense of community that makes you never want to leave. Whether you want to sit back and read a book, get some work done, or just hang and chat with family and friends there is something for everyone. Also, the attached gym offers a variety of classes that are all a MUST try. Coffee and a workout- what more could you need?! Cannot recommend enough!!!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Drip Coffee
I was looking forward to adding a new cafe to my WFH roster, but I can’t recommend this one. The coffee was good, and there is wifi, but the volume in the seating area was too loud for work. I could hear the conversations through my noise cancelling headphones and there is no way I could have taken a meeting. There was a group of regulars (the baristas knew them by name) that was playing videos with music on full volume, talking very loudly (the benefits of adderall and how to inject yourself with testosterone) with arguing kids in tow. It’s a cute space, but if you’re looking to work and focus, I can’t recommend.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 3
Best coffee in town great event library to meet up with your business partners!!
Chill atmosphere 💫🫶👌⚡️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I think this place has some of the best flavored lattes in the area. I have tried 3 or 4 of their unique flavors & been super impressed every time, they all have such different tastes but still can taste the coffee. Not too sweet or artificial. However, the staff loses them a star. Unless you are someone they know, they act like you are bothering them ordering.
Recommended dishes: Honey Bee Latte
Restaurantji Recommends
I loved the coffee here! A rare gem I happened to chance upon
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
A real hidden gem, a soothing relaxing environment to enjoy your coffee. The staff are friendly and full of life.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very beautiful space and good service. It was pretty calm though there's a good amount of traffic. A couple campers (people working on their laptops) It smells really good when you walk in and there's a lot of trendy seating. I would love to give them 5 stars but the food was subpar. I ordered a chai latte which was passable but not great (pretty watery) and some pre packaged blondie bites which were $15 and don't taste great- bad texture, dense, and not flavorful. Overall very visually aesthetic place but not great for coffee and food, super expensive. It's worth a visit if you're just looking for ambiance but not if you like good food/coffee. I could get better tasting treats at Wawa.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 5
Sublime coffee with an environment to match, one of my favorite cafes
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
A fantastic find! Great coffee and atmosphere. Delicious cinnamon scroll too. Worth leaving the highway for.
Crisp and homely “library” space to enjoy alone or with children. Local cute craft creations also for sale.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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