Review: Unique Coffee Café

I've been hearing about a lot about a new coffee shop by Woodmans in Carpentersville, IL since 2021. No one knew the name for a long time and then it kind of faded off in the wind as a rumor. Then, at the end of the year, on Facebook, Unique Coffee popped up and made it's name as the indie coffee shop in front of Woodmans. They kept saying November 2021 they would open, but they eventually opened in January of 2022. 

I went to Unique Coffee Cafe on my day off the other day. Even since I've been there, they've changed a bit, including furniture. They were pretty bare with chairs and tables but now they have a couch in front of the little fire place (as I've seen on Facebook) and it definitely fills up the space better. 

But here's my pros and cons list of Unique Coffee Cafe:

PROS

*The leather chairs in their minimal design of the shop are REALLY comfy. I sank right in when I sat down! I loved it. 

*I had a caramel iced latte and I don't know what coffee they use but it was definitely good. Not overly sweet but just right. 

*The employees are very friendly. I had my coffee walked to me instead of put on the counter. A little thing, but it still made me feel that I was appreciated. 

*They have a strange straw for coffee. It's a boba straw but you know what? I loved it because it made it so much easier to stir my coffee! It definitely a nice touch. 

CONS

*They don't have a huge menu. When I was looking at it, I was hoping for more. Maybe they'll expand when they get more well known, though. I'm hoping for some drinks that they put together that you can only get at Unique, you know?

*They have flavor syrups (although I had to ask about that, it's not on the menu), but they're very simple ones; chocolate and caramel are the big ones. But they don't have any thing that other indie coffee shops have, including flower-type flavor syrups. Not a big deal, but again, maybe they'll expand in the future. 

*As I said, the staff was friendly but the manager that was there didn't say a thing to me. I was kind of disappointed because I wanted to introduce myself and ask some more questions. It seemed like he really only talked to people who were "big names", as I've seen on Facebook with photos. It wasn't really busy either. I'm not holding that against him, I was just bummed a bit. 

*The order window was so confusing. When you walk in, there's a counter. But that's NOT the order counter. I had to be directed around to the back to order. KEEP THIS IN MIND IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE EMABARASSED (like I was): Go straight down and on the left is the order window!!!

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All in all, it's definitely a nice place to go to work on your computer or have a one on one with a friend. There's no big tables, so you can't meet up with more than one friend. I would love to see more specialty coffees and not just ones I can get at Starbucks. But the coffee was good and I would definitely go back!

If you guys go to Unique Coffee Cafe, let me know what you think!

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