Great pastry selection for an airport location (Santiago, Chile)…read more Please come and create your own adventure.

Dear Starbucks, we buy your coffee because we expect certain kind of service for the price. The…read moreleast you can do is train all your employees on what people around the world drink. Basic things like what is "half and half" "Milk". Try to provide a uniform experience. Show some training videos to your employees all around the world. The experience in Santiago was really bad. 15 mins later I still couldn't get what I am used to. Worse.

This coffee shop serves INSTANT COFFEE! WHAT?! I ordered a latte and I was given steamed milk and a…read moresmall jar of Nescafé instant coffee, and then I was told to mix it myself! Is this a joke? This is actually outrageous, but it was laughable and partially expected as this IS Chile. I guess this is exactly why they created cafe con piernas? Too bad my barista was fully clothed, and he couldn't distract me from how absurd this situation was. On the other hand, their carrot cake was rich, dense, and somewhat redeeming. Overall though, I would skip Café Mozaico and check out one of the other coffee shops in the area!

Coffee with legs is a cultural thing here in Santiago, where businessmen come to these cafes to…read moreenjoy a cup of coffee with a view of the waitresses' legs, since they are wearing tight and short dresses. The service, however, was rather cold and slow. If you like real coffee, this is not the place. But if you like mostly milk + a hint of coffee kind of drinks, this is gonna be good for ya.

The first time I went to Santiago on a business trip, my colleagues took me to Cafe Haiti. I was…read moreunpleasantly jet lagged and pleasantly culture shocked, and I had no idea why we were making a special trip for coffee. Cafe Haiti was apparently one of the first coffee shops where the waitresses were the star of the show and were dressed in the most incredibly short uniforms. If the caffeine didn't wake me up, the women serving it did. The coffee was really good and much stronger than anything I was used to in the US. I was told that quite a few imitators had cropped up after I left and there was some sort of a competition in the uniforms of the various baristas. Not all of the new coffee shops were supposed to be as classy as Cafe Haiti, which somehow combined skin, humor, and taste in a way that I don't think would have worked at home in the US. A few years later, some of my Chilean friends came to the United States and I took them to Maine for fresh lobster. I hope they enjoyed the lobster as much as I enjoyed Cafe Haiti. I give Cafe Haiti four stars because it was such a wonderful introduction to a country that I miss very much.