Old Post 19: Hop off the bus at the 61C Cafe

The 61C Cafe is located at 1882 Murray Ave, right on the 61C bus line route. That's actually how it gets its name.  You could hop off the bus and grab a pastry and a coffee en route to where you are headed, but should you?

While supporting local institutions is important to the Sugar Love lifestyle, in this instance, for the money you pay, you'd be just as well heading to Starbucks. 

To begin, the service was....awkward.  That's the best word I have to describe it. 

The iced latte was just ok.  It tasted as though it had far too much milk and not enough coffee.  They were out of croissants late in the day (bummer, but that's what you get when you wait until late in the day), which is the recommended pastry from here, but there was enough available to get a decent sampling.  Sugar Love tasted the Raspberry Mele, the Pound Cake, the Apricot Danish, the Espresso Chocolate Chip cookie and the Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip cookie.  In this rather large grouping, the only standouts were the Raspberry Mele and the Pound Cake.  

The raspberry mele has a crispy, sugar-coated pastry crust that wraps around a raspberry filling.  It's actually rather delicious and satisfying.  The pound cake does a pretty good job as well.  It's simply dusted with confectioners sugar and has a slight lemon vanilla flavor.  The biggest problem with this pound cake is that it is made as a cupcake, which causes a slightly odd texture for pound cake. 

The rest of the goodies were rather forgettable.  The two cookies were chocolate based doughs and just didn't have a very chocolate-y flavor to them.  They were kind of stale and dry.  The secondary flavors did not pop either.  The espresso and peanut butter just didn't come to life in the cookies.

If you find yourself stopping at 61C for coffee and a pastry, maybe just go for regular coffee, not the latte.  And stick to the raspberry mele or perhaps the croissant if they have them.  

61C Cafe's Raspberry Mele on the Sugar Lovin Scale

Taste ♥♥♥♥
Texture ♥♥♥♥
Appearance ♥♥♥.5
Overall ♥♥♥.75