The Coffee Club – Karrinyup

No matter what Coffee Club I go to, they all seem to take forever to prepare the drinks. I think they need a new system.

As with most of the Coffee Clubs it is always packed with customers.
This one sits right in the centre of the shopping centre, so it’s great for people watching.
Frappes are so good on a hot day. The staff are very helpful even putting in real coffee shots into the frappé, otherwise I think I may have fallen asleep.

Service was… CRAP! 15minutes for a coffee and 30 minutes for a sandwich! If they were busy due to a large number of customers and moving flat out is one thing, BUT NOT HERE they had 8 or 9 people 3 – 4 standing around at any one time and they were ALL moving SsssLllllOoooooooooooWww!!!
30 minutes for a sandwich and 15 minutes for a Tea or Coffee… CRAP!!!
Wife went off to another coffee place and got a drink and it was almost ALL GONE by the time we got our sandwich) which was suppose to be a chicken crêpe with almost NO chicken, look at your finger that’s bigger almost no chicken in a chicken dish) and it was a large!
CRAP! CRAP! CRAP Service!
Did I mention CRAP Service?
I will not be going back!

After being told it was going to be 30mins for our order of crêpe chicken & basil pesto and a Reuben sandwich (a «true“Reuben is way larger than this tiny one!) reluctantly I ordered! I was also advised it was going to take 15mins to get a tea! Declined on the tea! We received our order 30mins exactly. The chicken basil pesto crêpe had 2 pieces of chicken in it! Not good, really pricey, good not really good value. Tasted ok. Will try another location before I decide not to come back.

The Coffee Club is trying to market their brew and modern Australian food fare as up-​market. The Coffee Club fails in doing so.
A casual eatery located smack bang in Karrinyup’s newly renovated shopping centre, it attracts a lot of traffic due to its very location. As one of the only cafes within the centre, it’s awfully convenient to sit down and order a toastie. It’s not that The Coffee Club is particularly awful, they’re just not particularly good. I quite like their soy caramellates and raisin toast. Convenient, yet more expensive than Karrinyup’s other choices.

So the general trend for coffee chains is that what you forgo in quality and freshness is returned in convenience and affordability, right? Ah, false. I’m afraid Coffee Club tick none of those boxes.
My small soy cappuccino cost me $ 4.80 — a whole 80 cents extra just for soy! The largest penalty for soy milk I had seen until now was 50c and for a boutique brew might I add! The $ 4 was shit stirring alone.

Instead of inspiring individual and boutique cafes to open up in our mundane and dull city, we find ourselves with just another coffee-​providing franchise (I will not call it a café, I just won’t!).
I love clubs. But, this is one club I do not want to belong to! The coffee was weak which is horrifying considering I ordered a double espresso. The food looked sickly as it stared at me from the display window and I didn’t order that token muffin that accompanies almost all my coffees for the first time. My friends white vienna looked semi-​delicious, but one can argue that anything with whipped cream can be deemed to be delicious. Had our drinks, and left…

With Café 34 on site, I tend not to have much need for Karrinyup’s Coffee Club, whose beverages I find weak and unappealing and whose pre-​made food is equally uninspiring. But one has to admit that, on the odd occasion that one does wind up taking the brown restorative on that side of the shopping centre, one can’t help but be impressed by its central location. That is especially true at this time of the year when the shopping centre’s Christmas tree towers over the coffee-​imbibing patrons of the store as much as it does over the passersby. Watching the little kids sit on Santa’s knee brings back memories of one’s own childhood and if you’re anything like me makes you want to go over there now, at twenty-​four years old, and give the old guy in the beard a laugh by sitting on his knee and asking for a pony.
But back to the brown restorative as it is peddled by the Coffee Club, which certainly makes it brown enough but doesn’t really give it any kick. Of all the coffee chains, I would have to say that it is one of the worst of a bad bunch. I only wish one could sit in its seats without having to hand over money for its dreck.