Stir Reviews Summary

Coffee Quality

Pros:

• "Best coffee in Cambridge (better than Savinos, which is a close second)."
• "Coffee is delicious."
• "Best coffee <3 smooth and subtly sweet. Amazing."
• "Some of the best coffee in Cambridge(and this is high praise considering the other competition)."
• "The coffee was excellent, the food delightful."
• "Coffee was exceptional."
• "The coffee was very good."

Cons:

• "Tepid coffee and an awful Bacon Roll that I returned without eating."
• "The coffee is always on a cold side."
• "The single origin cappuccino was really milky and the carrot juice tasted mostly of orange."
• "Our decaf coffees arrived and both had a bitter, almost metallic aftertaste."
• "The food is lovely but the coffee is vile!"
• "Mediocre coffee and too long of a wait."
• "The filter coffee was just dirty water, the bacon arrived already cold."

Service

Pros:

• "The service was very fast and very friendly."
• "Service was cheerful and efficient."
• "Service. Excellent. Staff were super friendly. Very considerate. And food and drinks were delivered super quick."
• "Friendly service."
• "The staff are friendly and the brunch options good."
• "The FOH staff were all lovely, efficient in their roles, and seemed to genuinely enjoy working at Stir."
• "As soon as you open the door one of the waitress/waiter welcomes you with an honest smile."

Cons:

• "After a 40min wait, a guy came to me and said 'we have to cook more bacon. It’ll be an hour…'"
• "Really gone downhill in my opinion, wondered why it's been quiet lately."
• "The service is really quite slow."
• "We where forgotten we sat and waited 30 mins for coffee when we mentioned it to the waitress her response was ‘oh I forgot’ she didn’t even bother to apologise."
• "There were many staff, but were totally inefficient."
• "Service is slow considering the number of staff hovering."
• "Waited 40 minutes for a takeaway iced coffee when they weren't busy."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Nice contemporary decor, friendly staff."
• "The place was clean, and the big windows gave a lot of light and made it feel airy."
• "Always a great atmosphere here and the staff are lovely."
• "This bright clean coffee shop is a great place to rest and recharge."
• "Such an adorable cafe - absolutely love every thing about it."
• "The vibe in the shop was cool."
• "Lovely fresh faced cafe with a chic theme and conscientious meal options."

Cons:

• "Also the plastic dividers at the entrance were so precarious and a few times they fell because of the door/wind."
• "And extremely LOUD. If you want to meet for a having chat, skip this place."
• "It's more like a children's club than cafe."
• "Very little done to break up the noise so very loud atmosphere."
• "Inside was very loud and had no sound proofing."
• "The atmosphere was not appropriate or welcoming for anxious people."
• "Overcrowded, overpriced and overrated as a coffee shop."