The option that I chose for the Columbus To Do List is the Coffee and Tea list. The thing that I am most looking forward to with this choice is getting to sample high quality coffees from all of the different areas around campus and getting to see which ones are worth coming back to. I am a person who drinks coffee every morning and sometimes later in the day, and I enjoy coffee with a wide variety of flavors, therefore I am sure that I will really enjoy all of the different options I will get to try. What I am hoping to get out of this assignment is mainly a knowledge of places I can go around campus that serve one of my favorite drinks as well as, hopefully, a new favorite coffee shop to visit from time to time.
One experience that I have had so far was visiting Mission Coffee. Upon entering this shop, I noticed that there were very few lights on in the store and they were all dim. This would have been a problem if it weren’t for all the natural light entering from the front of the store, which had a window that covered the entire wall. Another thing that I noticed while in line was that they sold bags of ground coffee that were labelled based on what flavors they contained and what countries the beans were from. I wanted to buy one of these bags of coffee to try at home, but after reading the flavors on each bag, I was less excited to try them. Every coffee they had consisted of at least one typical coffee flavor, such as hazelnut or chocolate, and two or more different fruits. For example, the Papa New Guinea bean contained flavors of hazelnut, fresh grapes, and cinnamon apple. These flavors seemed like they would not go well together to begin with, much less in a coffee. Beyond this, the coffee was good and I would go there again for a cappuccino or drip coffee.