Coffee Project

Grayfoodaries

4.0

It has a cozy vibe! You can chill, study or even work here because they have outlet in every table for charging and wifi as well. As for the coffees and foods, they do offer good foods but not all. They have good coffee though! 😊

Camille Sacdalan

2.0

On my first Coffee Project visit in Mandaluyong a few weeks back, I was wowed by the cafe's eye-popping, Instagram-worthy interiors. But I was otherwise underwhelmed by its food and drink -- salty arrabiata pasta, hard and flat-tasting cookie, and matcha latte that was too sweet and milky to my liking. However, their free and fast Wi-Fi resurrected it from being a completely "thumbs-down" dine-in experience.Here at its branch at Vista Mall, Santa Rosa, Laguna, I was hoping for a better Coffee Project experience.Interiors -- I was about to visit this branch at that time but I already took for granted that it would surely have the same eye-popping, Instagram-worthy interiors like the Mandaluyong branch.The Santa Rosa branch looked magical indeed. Once again, I could not resist myself from taking pictures after I stepped into the cafe.There were lots of people so finding for a seat was difficult. But we eventually managed to get a decent and comfy seat.The first real problem was their Wi-Fi. We had difficulty connecting even though we had the password already. We tried to connect and re-connect our devices to their Wi-Fi but all for naught, and we gave up in frustration. So instead we continued to use the mall's limited-time Wi-Fi instead.Their Vietnamese latte is purported to be one of the most recommended beverages. It is also the most expensive among all the other hot coffee drinks on the menu -- one "tall" cup already cost ₱175 so I kind of expected highly of this beverage. I liked the addition of cinnamon powder but the coffee lacked some "ooomph" of flavor.The cakes and pastries line at this branch was pretty limited. In the end we had the ube cake and the butterscotch bar (or something like that). They both tasted flat. While I appreciate that cakes and pastries should not be sickeningly cloying, the stuff we tried here at Coffee Project was otherwise bland, almost tasteless, like they didn't see any sugar 😂.Overall, we were overwhelmed by Coffee Project's interiors but we were otherwise underwhelmed by their food and drink, again. 😐 Parang laging me kulang o sobra sa pagkain at inumin nila. You know -- "it's getting there but it either falls short or goes overboard." At this Vista Mall Santa Rosa branch, everything we tried was kind of insipid in comparison to the stuff I had at its Mandaluyong branch, na nasobrahan naman sa pampalasa. But I hope it's just me. 😁