In a rare turn of events, I tried two new coffee shops in my recent trip to Brownsville. Normally I…read moreget to try one new place. Crossing two off? What a pleasant surprise.
Mom and I visited GoodPeople. It's off Ruben Torres near a Goodwill store. It's cute and nice, but with a few tweaks I think they can be pretty great.
The menu has your classics: cortado, lattes, americanos, cappuccinos, and pour over coffee, and a nice selection of specialty coffees, cold brew bar, tea, matcha beverages, and fruit refreshers. They also have an assortment of pastries and seasonal menus.
I did make a comment that they should probably get the battery replaced in their smoke detector. The constant chirping was pretty distracting. I'm sure patrons who spend time there studying would appreciate that, too.
Mom ordered a pistachio crunch cloud latte and a pink frosted cinnamon roll, and I got a rose bud cloud latte. I typically order a cortado as a "control" but I forgot this time around, which is a shame, because I really could have used that unit of measure.
I wasn't too much of a fan, to be honest. The rose was very perfumey and overpowering. Before you come at me with, "Well, Cindy, duh, it's Rose," I've had plenty of rose lattes that were an absolute delight. (Curator Coffee comes to mind) It was the first time in recent memory I had trouble getting through my drink.
Mom had the opposite problem. She thought her pistachio drink was too subtle on the pistachio! I got to taste it and, maybe it's because I had a mouth full of potpourri, but I thought it was okay. We chalked it up to the sweetness of the cinnamon roll clouding the nuance. (The cinnamon roll was great, by the way)
Overall, happy we went, but with Brownsville finally starting to develop a nice showing of coffee shops, I think I have many other places I'd pick first.
