The Red Brick is a traditional European style coffee house located on historic Douglas Street in downtown Guelph. Since opening October 2006, our focus has been to provide exceptional coffee beverages, wine and craft beer and simple but sumptuous food. What we lack in quantity we more than make up for in quality. A great place to read, relax or meet. Breakfast: Fresh baked Muffins made daily in house, Grilled breakfast sandwiches, fresh fruit, yogurt Lunch: Grilled panini sandwiches, fresh pasta salad, seasonal fruit and vegetable salads, egg salad wraps, fresh house made soup of the day Evening: Thin crust pizzasmore...See more text
We stopped in for a week night date away from the kids. Just as we sat down to chat, a local hired artist began singing. There were many students there to study in this small space, and it looked like a Book Club had met there to discuss their latest title. We stayed long enough to finish our beverages but found it too difficult to talk, so we left. We can appreciate how some would enjoy this, yet it seems more appropriate to have Live Entertainment on a Fri, Sat or Sun, when more people would welcome such an experience. Otherwise, it's a nice place.
This place opened when I moved to guelph and I had a feeling it would grow into a little gem. Absolutely stellar beverages (iced and hot). I've never not enjoyed any of their brewed drinks. Paninis have been generally pretty great (I've had one I didn't like, but I think it was just the flavour combination). Free wifi is awesome too. Check it out if you havn't already.
$2 gets you a piping hot mug of the best coffee in town. And it's fair trade coffee, which in my opinion, should be the law to serve. A great environment to relax, to work (wi-fi!), to write, or to meet up with friends. The music on the stereo is usually great and the servers are great people. Now if only I lived downtown and could come more often . . .
Oh, and the menu is small. Don't expect that this is a full restaurant. It's a cafe, similar to the kind you would run into in Paris. Grab a coffee, whatever sandwich is on the menu that day, and enjoy yourself. Meet the staff too, they're great.
I thought I would pop in for a quick lunch and everyone had been raving about this little cafe, so I tried it out.
What a disgusting disappointment!
The salad was lined with lettuce at the bottom of my take-out container and it was limp AND slimey! So nasty!
The chai latte was also below my expectations.
I'm glad this place is tucked out of sight -- nobody should endure such poor quality food and such lousy service.
I found the place ok for a coffee shop. The food...
I found the place ok for a coffee shop. The food is definately below average. Premade and
sitting was the quality we got. Staff were not
pleased when we pointed out our food was not the greatest. It is sort of a - oh well that is
about normal.
When we questioned what might give you the impression that everything they sell is fair trade coffee, it became obvious they are more
about the marketing than about the reason
and purpose behind the fair trade product.
For a coffee, might come back. For lunch or dinner, not a chance.
Editor's note: Mountain View Coffee company has verified that all coffee at the Red Brick is Certified Fair Trade and Organic, and has been since the day the doors were opened.
