My friend and I saw this place on IG a few times and decided to check it out this past Sunday. Unfortunately, the experience was very underwhelming/disappointing.
The inside is really cute, well decorated with enough seating (given the size of the entire place). I got the matcha latte and my friend got the lavender latte. I loved mine - it had a robust matcha flavour with a hint of floral. Then we went to the back to assemble a bouquet. I immediately noticed that a lot of the flowers were dropping or had bent stems. The bent stems were probably from people moving around the flowers over the course of the day. We got a quick run down of how everything worked (pickup the flowers you want and they will assemble the bouquet and wrap it), and prices for some of the flowers we were interested in.
What I personally like was:
- they had a small selection, which is fine since they're also a coffee place (and not primarily a flower shop). But their dried flowers to "fresh" flower ratio was a bit off. I also would have liked more options for filler flowers, or just green leafy pieces to make the bouquet look full.
- like I said, alot of their flowers looked beaten up. And a bunch of them were close to dying - the flower had opened and it was starting to droop, or the bottom flowers on a vine were starting to fall off, etc. Given the price of the flowers, I expected them to be a bit more fresh. There are other places in the city that offer fresh flowers for the same price (or lower, like Euclid Farms), that will also assemble the bouquet for you.
- I also didn't like that the prices were printed on the vases (maybe with a dry erase marker, or something that isn't permanent but is still visible). It's hard to keep all the prices in mind, but they do tell you a total at the end. It would just be nice to keep the total in mind as you're assembling, so you don't awkwardly try to take out flowers once you've picked them out.
I ended up paying $62 for 5 "flowers", and as of today, everything is dying/drooping. read more