Coffeelab - Eindhoven

This is such an unassuming spot. It's located near a giant bike parking lot and between two major streets at the edge of the city center in Eindhoven. If I wasn't dying for a cup of coffee I don't think we would have stopped in. I'm so glad we did. It has a seriously cool vibe. The ceilings are filled with hanging live green plants and there's plenty of options for single seating or small group seating. They have board games strewn about he room and fun floppy pillows on benches to sit on. We enjoyed some fabulous banana bread and a delicious cappuccino. We actually liked it so much that we ran back the next morning before our flight and brought some friends along to enjoy the experience. At the back of the cafe is a cute little shop with local gifts that you can grab to share with friends back home.

Great location, beautiful decor, menu... not for me. I think I am going to start using a new word for this experience Insta trap . Insta trap, similar to a tourist trap, is when the food ends up taking a major backseat in the experience to a good location, or in this case, excellent decor and plating. In my opinion, CoffeeLab felt an awful lot like an Insta trap. The decor, the plating beautifully curated. The menu... not so much. Word of advice: if you are here for the instagrammable vines hanging from the ceiling and the trendy wooden boards and jam jar coffees, stick to desserts and coffee. The lunch menu felt tired and lackluster. If I rattled off a few adventurous sounding ingredients that could be made into sandwiches that took minimal effort that would be these sandwiches. One bite into my spicy chicken and jalapeno sandwich and it was clear it did not take much effort to make this. Simple ingredients, hardly any flavour, no garnish. I think the most egregious part of this experience was that they had not even bothered to wipe off the knife from cutting my friend 's goat cheese sandwich before mine so residue from her sandwich was all over mine. And the coffee! Maybe this is just not for me but the Espresso Tonic was definitely not something I would enjoy in the summer. I 'm pretty open minded with coffee. I 'll try the trendy Robusta only espressos in Shoreditch or the Nitro brews in San Francisco, but this drink was so far from sweet or summery (as advertised). It was... mineral and severely bitter. Overall it was a little disappointing. Coffeelab was the first on my list of things to do on my first trip to Eindhoven. Maybe it was just me expecting a little more, but if you came here for the Insta, then by all means you will not be disappointed. But if you wanted lunch, maybe try somewhere else. And if you wanted coffee, by all means avoid that 4 euro espresso tonic.

Very nice atmosphere, great decoration. Very good coffe, they know what they do. Their brownie os really good....

Used to be a super nice place until today: been there for around 3/4 hours for studying. Waiter never came to take my ordination, when I went to the bar asking for a coffee, the barlady told me that they only do table service. Came back to my place but still nobody came. Last super annoying thing: the place closes at 6 and at 5:15 they often start blasting music from the speakers to make you run away. As an ex waiter and service manager let me give you a tip: find more dirigent staff.

Very cool place, good coffee, nice atmosphere UPD: the place is so nice that we returned there multiple times. Lazy breakfast is only 12.5 euro: