Foundation Coffee House Reviews Summary

Seating and Space

Pros:

• "Very open and wide seating arrangement so you'll never feel cramped up listening to a stranger's life story."
• "The space is roomy and airy, it’s not too noisy, and it feels friendly and laidback."
• "Large space, plenty of different seating. Urban modern interior, office vibe."
• "It's spacious so you don't have to worry about sidling up next to someone."
• "The atmosphere was great, the tables were nice and spread out so you felt you had your own space."
• "Foundation seems to quell both these issues by being possibly the largest coffee space in the entire city."
• "The area is bright and well decorated."

Cons:

• "The place can get a little loud, but nothing that’s a noise cancelling earbuds cannot overcome."
• "The place looks nice but when you sit and properly look around the place is disappointing. Not on the clean side, the table was sticky and full of stains."
• "Our table was sticky and dirty, which in my opinion is unacceptable in times like these."
• "It might be a bit loud when there is a lot of people, because it's all concrete inside."
• "It just loses a star because it was extremely hot in there and quite noisy (lots of hard surfaces)."
• "Only thing is not pram friendly as you have to lift your pram up some stairs."
• "I wish if they just clean the tables."

Service

Pros:

• "Stella was super efficient, kind and helpful."
• "The service is super friendly and everything was beautifully presented and tasty."
• "The staff are always friendly and accommodating with me, and my group."
• "They gave us a gorgeous booth to sit in to accommodate our needs and the staff were incredibly attentive."
• "The service was friendly and for a city centre coffee house the prices were ok!"
• "The staff are friendly and quick to serve you/ bring your food and drinks to your table."
• "Staff are incredibly friendly and attentive."

Cons:

• "Ordered a vegetarian omelette (having not eaten meat for over ten years). Took a bite and it was full of ham."
• "We stood by the sign for a little while with no acknowledgement."
• "Does anybody even care that works here? We ordered poached eggs on toasted sourdough with avocado smash, but one of the eggs arrived cold and hard, and they hadn’t bothered to toast the sourdough."
• "staff increasingly disengaged and disinterested."
• "When I came to order the girl on the till just ignored me and she start talking to her friend."
• "Waited around for at least 5 min to be noticed."
• "Had to flag down a waiter after sitting for 20 minutes just to order."

Food and Drink

Pros:

• "Superb food. Although I ordered for two people somehow it all ended up on one plate??!! My avocado smash with side order of mushrooms came with bacon and extra eggs..my fiancee meal..egg on toast."
• "Food is peng 👌🏻 come fairly regularly to lots of the different branches across Manchester but this one stands out as the best."
• "The banana bread was moist and flavoursome without being too sweet."
• "The Eggs Royale were exquisite, with perfectly poached eggs, tasty hollandaise, and lovely bread."
• "Superb coffee, and outstanding breakfast food."
• "Good coffee and good food - I recommend the potato hash with a scoop of mashed avocado, so yummy."
• "Food was really tasty and eggs cooked to perfection."

Cons:

• "The sandwich was £8.60 which we thought was very overpriced."
• "The coffee was really rather small for a cappuccino and the food was not competitively priced. £4.50 for a slice of carrot cake is at least £1.50 too expensive."
• "Also £10.50 for a smoothie and a croissant is insane but that not the baristas fault."
• "coffee with increasing frequency served with 'burnt bean' aftertaste."
• "The food was portioned rather stingily and the coffee tasted kind of odd."
• "Food and drinks did not seem value for money (£10 for a piece of avo toast)."
• "Neither latte had caramel and neither seemed to have been made with oat milk, and both tasted burnt."