A gem in the southwest suburbs. Excellent, extensive, and ever-growing game library, great coffee,…read moreand very inclusive environment. Highly recommended.

Found about this cool coffee shop and gaming cafe. It certainly is a place for caffeine and nerds…read moreand is one of the more unique places in Shorewood. Critical Grind is certainly a great place if you like board and card games. Has crap tons to choose from including some most people have never heard about before coming here. The drinks and food aren't the main attraction but these are good mostly. Came here the first time and we just wanted to look around. It's got a counter to order at and a few tables in front. The back is where it's at as far as fun and games. A crap ton of board games are piled up basically. Has so many games back here it's hard to pick just one. The drinks and food are easier choices thankfully. It's about $5 to get a latte. There's some non dairy milk choices including oat. It's about $6 for avocado toast, of which there's a few choices. The Hummzza comes with balsamic glaze, basils, and tomatoes. Great place with lots of fun. It's located in the plaza next to the sports cards store. There's often events going on here so check the website.

This coffee shop is good, the drinks themselves beat out Dunkin for sure. Good prices too. I've…read moretried their honey biscuit Sanwhich and it wasn't too bad. I always get the Matcha and my husband ordered his coffees and we're always satisfied. Place is clean, most of the staff is nice.

I live close to my Biggbys . I was less than five minutes away, I pulled over to the curb placed a…read moremobile order on the app , pulled up but I didn't even have to wait to get served. It's taken a couple years but they have ironed out all the bugs. ( the subtle thing that I love about them , is wrapping all their warm to go stuff in foil) This place easily destroys SB & DD. A little more affordable in price and a little kinder at the drive up window and at the service counter then the afore mentioned two places. It's Biggby all the way baby!

The staff were very friendly and it was super busy as they just opened the Joliet location. I…read moredidn't particularly like my coffee it was too bitter for me, but I will need to give some other drinks a try to give a fair rating. I also would like to try out some of their pastries because it all looked delicious! It is a small cafe with only a few tables available to sit. (all of them were full when we stopped in) so I wouldn't expect to sit here and do work/school work. There is also well done artworks for sale on the walls and comics which was an interesting but refreshing addition! I will give this place a few more tries before giving their coffee a complete review. :)

Johnny had done it again! Great crew. Very friendly with great service, drinks, and fresh pastries,…read morecookies and yum yums! Just like in Crest hill. Having a problem uploading photos. Ill be back to upload photos. Place is open 7-7 M-F Sat & Sun 8-7. Well worth ur stop. My fav the Abueluta latte is there. With a 1/2 pump of cane sugar. Great addition to this strip mall!

Love love love their breakfast. The staff can be hit or miss. One experience I was laughing so hard…read morebecause the waitress seemed to have a problem with a specific member of our party. We all just laughed it off but it was honestly very strange. Otherwise, great place to go for breakfast in Shorewood!

Absolutely horrible. Will never ever come back. Cared more about a sign on the door than customer…read moreneeds. Literally, had to walk out!!! Owner was extremely rude.

On our way home from Chicago we stopped at this place. This place has decent boba tea, along with…read morecute claw machines. The drinks came out pretty fast. Decent local location and seem like the staff do keep this place pretty clean.

Cute cafe with lots of board games and variety of drinks and bubble waffle. My kids like mango…read morefruit tea with rainbow jelly. I had matcha with rose and it was so pretty and tasty. The decorations for Tet lunar new year are great!

What a find!! Driving back to south Florida from Chicago and needed breakfast on the first morning…read more Kylah(hope it is spelt correctly) was on her grind. She got our order in , food out and stayed on top of us. Neat and clean inside with plenty of space and minuscule wait time on a Saturday morning.

Vegan options are super limited to 1 dish. Veggie skillet with basicly just oil and nothing else on…read moreit (no egg etc). Do I mind? No I have ate TONS of breakfast places and had only veggies heated up honestly. I can name 6 places in orland, Bolingbrook, Naperville, Joliet, romeoville, I can eat just "veggie skillet no egg, no cheese" and it taste just fine. Ordered it and after few bites did not taste fresh, in fact tasted dry? And frozen. I got almost sick IMMEDIATELY. Mind you I paid " like "$20+" for this. My stomach was so messed up, I wanted to Vomit. Also note my boyfriend ordered Cheesey Egg Omelette, and also refused to eat it after 4 bites. it's not just my meal. Maybe what we ordered was just not the freshest veggie, or egg, or cheese, or... ? I don't know what the heck happened but $47 down the drain. 3 bites each. We asked for a check and walked out. I hate to leave a bad review but atleast the $5 strawberry juice, which was you know... not really fresh or juice was just flavored water, no sugar, was decent. ALSO, my boyfriend did like the pancakes. So... just order the pancakes Service was alright. Ambiance was alright. Food, personally I wouldn't come back. Even if you paid me. My stomach hurt so bad. The place looks nice tho, and lots of options, just don't take anyone who you love there, maybe an enemy.

Food: I took some of my adult education students to a five-course meal here at the Royal Tea Room…read more They loved it the food and experience. The five course at the time was a cranberry feta salad, a carrot soup, and the tower with savory sandwiches, cookies, cakes and scones. I love the food and ate everything! 5/5 Service: We came on Tuesday around 10:30 am. We were the only ones there until 12 so if you want a quiet time, I would say on the weekday in the morning time would be the best. The server was very nice and attentive! She was very knowledgeable on the teas and accommodate my students. 5/5 Ambiance: The Tea room was clean and bright. I love the decorations. It reminded me a turn of the century tea room I see on TV shows. There was a sign in book so you can see where everyone has came from and a cute couch in front of a beautiful painting if a photo op is your thing. 5/5 Overall:5/5

First time there today. First thing I noticed was a strong perfume scent but the room was…read morebeautiful. The lady who served us was friendly and efficient. We ordered Petite Tea I think? and the food was delicious but very sparse for the price ($29) each. Definitely not filling. The strong scent would not be good for someone with smell aversions. If the portions were more healthy, I might try again.

I hate to fly so I was passing thru on my summer teacher break on my way to Seattle from Florida…read morewith midway stop in Michigan. They were friendly and polite when opening up. I had the best Mocha Frappachino drink that refreshed me and a delicious hot breakfast sandwich. I know which Starbucks to stop at to eat while in Illinois. Thank you for a great experience !!!

Very inconsistent service. It seems like they have high turnover of staff except those with…read morenegative attitudes or outright nasty personalities. I'm guessing this why the drink quality varies so vastly. I order the same basics every time yet they rarely taste even similar. Management must be aware of how awful this location is or they just don't care. Go elsewhere- there is a Bigsby & a SevenBrew just down the road where they actually appreciate their customers.

Two things stood out the most for my first visit. The customer service and the quality of food. I…read moreordered the avocado breakfast and a Freddo Espresso, which both exceeded my expectations. My meal was served fast and the waitress was helpful and attentive. Will definitely go back.

Our server was Monica. She was friendly. We ate our brunch there on a late Monday morning. We had…read morenever been so we were excited to try them out. My boyfriend and I had steak and eggs. Steak was fantastic, eggs were great as well. The potatoes were not my favorite. They were a little dry and seemed like maybe they were made ahead and sat for a bit, but I am sure if they were made to order, they'd be great too. Overall, ambiance is really warm and friendly. There wasn't many people there at that time so it was pretty chill. We will definitely be going again to try a few different things on their unique breakfast menu!

I've never been to this place but I've had their sour cream donuts numerous times when a member of…read morethe family who lives in the area brings them to my side of town and OMG, they are sooo delicious! I wish there was a location closer to me in Aurora because I would be there 24/7! I've been told this place sells out early and I can totally see why! I've even eaten their donuts the following day and they're still just as good! These are calories worth consuming!!

Was recommended this place by a friend, honestly.. the donuts are just too sweet. Not bad of a…read moreprice but it's literally like you're eating diabetes. I would much rather go to Home Cut Donuts. I will say though the service was good, cashier was friendly and the place looked clean and neat.