Moniker Coffee Co.

After waiting for 15-20 minutes(got in line about 10:30am on a Saturday) just to order coffee, it better be the best coffee I’ve ever had. It wasn’t. Ultimately the latte I had was watery and had very little flavor. Moniker has signs everywhere which say “skip the line and order online.” I tried to do that but they only have food as an option to order online, except they are marked as out of stock. Once we approached the register to order coffee we found out they actually weren’t out of stock. Moniker might be the most unorganized coffee shop I’ve ever been too. Most table are being taken up by a single person with a laptop, some without any coffee or food. It’s incredibly loud in the space. The person who took my order was polite but the barista was the opposite. Skip the stop and find somewhere else which has better tasting coffee and an efficient front of house.

Really good cocktails at the bar here. Great bartenders take extra care crafting the cocktails for sure. High quality hooch behind the bar and they put the bottle down in front of me so I could get familiar with what I was drinking. The coffee side seemed fine for milk drinks and such. Espresso seemed tuned for that. I like a straight espresso and theirs was fine, just not 5/5 level compared to some other SD coffee shops. If it was a cocktail bar, they get all the stars. Coffee in the name means I gotta dock ’em one for not being elite among their peers. That said, the place is great and I’ll happily go back.