Cyprus is a country where with a handful of rare exceptions are guaranteed to find bad coffee. Every chain have heard of and many would not wish to hear of. What is equally depressing is the indie coffee shops follow suit and serve bad coffee, bad coffee in takeaway cups.
Several years ago Patisserie Amelie opened in the centre of Protaras. By the abysmal standards of Cyprus a step in the right direction, an improvement, but coffee LavAzza and was never going to be serving great coffee, and always empty but for staff employed in the hotel and the occasional tourist. This year surprisingly busy.
Now a second Patisserie Amelie has opened overlooking a small bay Vali tou Xadajixeni, a little way along the coast from Fig Tree Bay, maybe ten minutes walk.
The design is poor. It is part of Sunrise Jade. It looks as though tacked on as an afterthought.
It could have been adjacent to the bay, not set back
No lessons learnt from Antamoma, a terrace below Gold Coast Hotel overlooking Kalamies Beach.
The coffee LavAzza, the person who made the coffee head waiter from Sunrise Jade. When asked, apart from that it was San Remo, he had no idea the coffee machine and made clear he had no interest in knowing.
The coffee looked disgusting, tasted disgusting. The unpleasant taste of the cheap low quality LavAzza dominated.
There is no excuse these days for not using high quality coffee. A five-star hotel insulting its clientele with this low quality coffee.
What could be, a coffee shop with quality beans, skilled barista, would become a destination as word got around.
Sunrise Jade 5*, superficially looks good, but on close inspection, cheap and tacky, not of the quality of Sunrise Beach. The small lounge, serried rows of seats, has as much ambience as the gate at an airport when waiting to board a flight. It was as though had walked into a Tsokkos hotel. But would caution, initial impressions, have not stayed or tried the food.
Its big plus, a quiet location, especially if compared with Sunrise Beach where kept awake until early hours of the morning by the bars.
The staff not friendly, clearly bored. Maybe end of season fatigue.
A quiet location and yet the coffee shop has moronic music blaring out.
No beach, not unless class a dirty stretch of sand accessed by a causeway is classed as a beach.
At the opposite end of the bay, steps that do not look safe descend to the sea.
For those who love coffee, it is worth a trip to Larnaca for one of those rare exceptions, Nick’s Coffee Bike outside Larnaca Marina. Catch the local bus to the Ayia Napa International Sculpture Park, then Intercity Bus to Larnaca.
Also worth finding Paul’s Coffee Roasters hidden in the backstreets of Larnaca.
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