Comments on: Coffee @ The Cupping Room, Hobart

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:15:37 +0000

Nice, I typeed “the coffee room hobart” into google and this came up as the first search result. The comments by punters I expected and that wouldnt put me off, but its a bad look for the owner (or claimed owner) to come on and respond in such a way.

Good site, good to see you are so high in google rankings compared to the venues own site! top work

By: stef

stef — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:16:02 +0000

They are rude cunts! I just went there with a friend for coffee, and asked if i could please have a cappuccino with vanilla, since i saw that they had monin flavour syrups sitting on the counter and thats what i like. The woman at the counter turn up her nose to me and said “we don’t do flavoured coffee!” to which i replied “…even though you have flavour syrup right there” her response “we dont do them!”. No explanation or a simple “those are for….”….she was the single rudest hospitality experience i have had in ages. Absolutely unbelievable…..

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:46:23 +0000

The Cupping Room looks so promising, a bit of garage chic. Unfortunately it stops there. I’ve tried the coffee a few times, each time hoping that the previous coffee was the fault of a tired staff member or bad bean, but alas. Life’s too short for bad coffee, and there are much better places to spend your coffee dollars at, like Pigeon Hole or the newer Pilgrim on Argyle St. Life’s too short for bad service too – and on two of my three visits, the customer service was significantly lacking.

Oh and Carlos, if you are really the owner of the Cupping Room, judging from your comments, I’m not sure that you’re the best ambassador for the business.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:07:13 +0000

Reply from Owner of The Cupping Room:

Dont worry Tim,

you are not supporting a happy clappy new age cult.

There are no deluded 20 somethings here except as you would find anywhere else that serves coffee.

There are no members of the Soul Church that work at Cupping Room.
The Soul Church are a Presbyterian Christian group that have asked us if they can use use the premises for their meetings.

I have said yes to that. They are a wonderful group who are doing good things for the community and I wholeheartedly support any such groups.

I hate cults, and if there were a cult looking to use our place I would certainly not allow it.

However, if you have a problem with bible believing Christians, then you are going to struggle as there are plenty of those about. Thank God.

Carlos.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:31:09 +0000

Thanks for the comment Tim. It amazes me how the plot is thickening.

I’ve never heard of the Soul Church before but I’ll keep my ear out and it certainly seems that they and the The Cupping Room are hand-in-hand in one way or another.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:25:48 +0000

What’s the relationship between The Cupping Room and the ‘Soul Church’? (www.soulchurch.com.au)

I like my Coffee but I don’t want to inadvertently support a ‘Happy Clappy’ God bothering new age cult.

Coffee can be a religion however, I don’t want the beans disturbed by deluded twenty something’s who have confused being a compassionate person for religion.

By: Jules

Jules — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:40:24 +0000

Carlos seems like a dickhead. Not planning on ever going to The Cupping Room. Plenty of good coffee elsewhere without owners challenging patrons to Cupping Duels and questioning taste.

By: Clarki

Clarki — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:08:51 +0000

Up until recently I would generally agree with all the many positive and effusive comments made about The Cupping Room – the food is tasty and the coffee some of the best in Hobart. However, recently my food and my coffee have been incredibly slow to arrive, and the doe-eyed young staff equally slow to respond to beckoning clients and pointedly checked watches. Today, when I went in there at 3pm there were plenty of said young hipsters floating dreamily about, and few customers to serve. However, when I politely queried the length of time taken to produce my latte, I was told in no uncertain terms by the belligerent young man to “not come back”. Maybe he was offended by my lack of appreciation for his latte art; or maybe he was just a jumped up little prick, but he followed that up with a “I’ve got four places in Hobart and I know what I am doing” comment guaranteed to raise any well-meaning customer’s ire further. Levity aside, it is displays of rudeness and downright aggression like this that lead to the failure of so many hospitality operations in Tasmania. Unlike cities like Melbourne and Sydney, Tasmania has no service culture of which to boast, which, combined with a prevailing over-inflated sense of entitlement as displayed by the young barista at The Cupping Room today, is sadly discouraging of any improvement in the future.

By: Marinus jansen

Marinus jansen — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:52:34 +0000

Checked this site as the slayer is on eBay. We have four slayers in our stores and five and six on the way, seven if we count one of our customers in the field, busiest 3 group does 120kg a week. Not Saying it’s a busy machine, but you can move volume and they are the best machines we have bar none. Biggest prob with slayer is it brings out the actual skill level of a Barista, if you can’t cut it slayer is your nemisis. Alternatively if you can it’s unbeatable. We love em. We also spend enormous amounts of time on our staff training and cupping. Slayer made us do that again and more importantly in a very measured and balanced way.

By: Finntroll

Finntroll — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:44:07 +0000

You all suck.

I am no coffee connoisseur but I like my coffee and the cupping room’s coffee is in a different league to any one else I have been to.

I have only one non positive comment. The two guys who make the coffee, the slightly older one that is in the pictures above. Every coffee from him has been fantastic, I have noticed though the younger guys coffees just weren’t as good. Still good just not fantastic. He has been slowly getting better and better, I just finished my morning coffee which was made by the younger guy and it was fantastic, seems like he is now par with the older guy… well nearly :P

The only one that is close it oomph, the coffees made by the younger guy at first where very much like oomph’s coffees. I think the main difference is in the milk, the older guy at the cupping room his milk is not as hot and they are really nice and creamy, oomph their coffees are much hotter, the milk tastes more watery and it has that kind of burnt flavor.

Like I said I am no coffee connoisseur, I just like to drink coffee and to me The Cupping Room make it just how I like it so I will continue going there every day. Apart from Monday as it’s closed which makes me rage…. Monday should not be a coffee free day any I refuse to buy other shops coffee as it tastes like cr@p in comparison.

On a site note:
Nola, I read on your review “As a photographer, I always believed that given the worst camera in the world, a great photographer would still take a great photograph. And given the best camera in the world, a bad photographer would still take a bad photograph.”

I am software developer I have never owned a camera in my life. How about I take the $80,000 hasselblad camera from my work and take a photo and you can take a mobile phone and take a photo and see who’s is better.

Also you photos on your site are shocking, they are very grainy, colours are all vague, contrast is horrid. I am unsure how you call your self a photographer.