Cafes Reloaded: Mozart’s, Gymea and Buenta, Frankston

Now, at Five Word Coffee Shop Reviews there are at present more than 250 reviews of cafes and coffee shops. Occasionally, these coffee shops will change management, hire new people, or do something else to change the quality of their coffee, and most of the time I don’t hear about it.

Case #1: Mozart’s at Gymea

This place had originally received a middling review, but I received an email plea from the owner, telling me that he had made vast improvements to the place, and could I revisit and check it out?

Why certainly, Mozart. (Not his real name, by the way.)

I had two of my trained monkeys go and check out the place and report back to me. Both of them liked the coffee and would recommend it, although one of them said it was too strong – after he had ordered it strong! Go figure.

Like me, he almost always orders it strong, and like me, he only started doing that to avoid getting weak coffee in not-so-good cafes. That leaves one open to getting coffee stronger than one wants.

So Mozart’s is now officially classified as Good. I’ll update the review to reflect that.

Case #2: Buenta in Frankston

I used to go here occasionally for breakfast with my parents. The food was well-done and the coffee decent, so when I recently found a job in Frankston it was only natural that I would return.

I ordered strong. Strong, I tell you. (Sense a theme in this post?) When I got it, was it strong? No. Nor was it normal strength. It was weak. Weak! The taste was of frothed-up warm milk with barely a hint of coffee.

Others in the office told me they didn’t like the coffee there either.

I won’t be returning.