Considering its location inside the country’s most exclusive department store, this shop is pretentious. With a genuinely friendly smile, the waiter lived up to these expectations, but from there it’s downhill. The ‘La Ruche’-delivery service delivers the cappuccino, made by the super-automatic machine, to the table with the number corresponding to his receipt with an artificial smile. The coffee, the taste of which was masked by the machine-made ‘foam’, wasn’t worth the 5-minute wait or the 2.45 euros, by far. Avoid.

La Ruche (Bijenkorf)
Sint Jacobsstraat 1a, Utrecht
Visited October 22, 2009
€ 2.45 (cappuccino)
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