Gloria Jean’s Coffees

Consistently good coffee. Yum banana bread toasted. The whole hillsong debacle is abit ridiculous as each GJ’s is a franchise and patrons are mostly supporting mum and dad businesses that struggle like the rest of us. So I choose not to get my knickers in a knot over the politics of the mothership.

Best coffee and dirty chai’s with a friendly and fast service also a good selection of pastries and sweets to tempt anyone

I’m divided on Gloria Jeans.
I’m not a fan of their questionable background and paying over 4 dollars for a drink — I expect it to have some alcohol in it.
However, if I do want to treat myself, Gloria Jeans does offer heaps of options for those who might not want coffee.
I like the featured drinks they bring out and my two favourite drinks are the Creamy Hot Cocoa and that Tim Tam drink.
All the Gloria Jeans are stock standard and we have no Starbucks over here so it is the next best thing!

Gloria Jeans is pretty good in general. I am a real fan of sweet drinks and Gloria Jeans has a massive range of sweet drinks, cold and hot! My drink of choice at the moment is Very Vanilla Latte. I had one from Hillary’s yesterday, and although the weather outside was hot it went down so well.
If is often quite busy and it isn’t that big so granted you are lucky in you get an inside seat. I usually get it to take away and sit on one of the jetties. This is great in the summer, have an ice coffee and sit in the sun with it, people watching. Thats my idea of a perfect sunday afternoon.
I like this Gloria Jeans not only because of its location, but the baristas are better. Maybe not all of them, but in general they are better than other Gloria Jeans I have been to.

I should know better than to get my coffee at Gloria Jean’s. Its connections to Hillsong and its support for the Mercy Ministries are pretty distasteful, and to be honest the hit-​and-​miss coffee misses more than it hits, making it distasteful, too, in another, more literal way.
But between Gloria Jeans and, say, Dôme, I’d still probably choose Gloria Jean’s. (And I would choose Dôme over Starbucks, so there’s my completely arbitrary hierarchy for you.) Like Dôme, Gloria Jean’s tries to evoke an old-​fashioned café feel, in a manner at once both cynical and depressing, but it at least acknowledges that it’s trying to do so in 21^st Century Australia. Dôme thinks it’s still 1870 and that Perth is Vienna. I have no time for that.
The Gloria Jean’s shares its design with every other Gloria Jean’s in the country, with the wall of bottled flavours and all that. Its baristas are better than many of the other Gloria Jean’s about. But I would still choose to go to Toscanini’s or the Beach Shack for my espresso.