As delicious as Bonsoy is, I have read too many articles stating how bad soy is for us. But of course, for the sake of consistency this project cannot work if I change the coffee midway through. So while I took a few weeks off because of my workload, it was also a great time to switch onto normal milk as my everyday vice, and I will now only be having soy when I do a review. Switching back to cow's milk was hard. Firstly there was the thought of it coming from a cow's utter, and all of the horrible reports of the dairy industry. Secondly it tastes incredibly bland compared to Bonsoy, and it took me a while to get used to coffee without the enhancement of good quality soy milk. But luckily I am no longer feeling ill when I have it so that helped with the transition. Also because in between I tried to swap onto almond milk and holy wow that is not happening.
Anyway I was able to start reviewing again when I had a morning off this past Saturday. It was a cold but sunny morning in Adelaide, and while the city looked rather empty Le Carpe Diem on Grenfell St was buzzing.
Prior to visiting the store I thought some annoying hipster-type had thought they were being trendy by calling it "Le Carpe Diem". I was pleased to find out that it is actually owned and run by french people, and I no longer felt frustrated by the name.
This cafe is very cute and entirely different to any of the cafes I have reviewed before. To tell the truth, Adelaide has a really high standard of cafes. When I lived in Brisbane, beautiful cafes that were decorated to a particular style or theme and also managed to produce amazing coffee were hard to come by. Adelaide seems to have really nailed this niche. Each cafe that I have reviewed seems to have picked a theme and then they have ran it the whole way through and to a very high standard from a design point of view. Not to mention the quality of the coffee I have been reviewing has made it tough to differentiate between cafes. In fact, it's sort of getting to the point where I now know of so many good cafes I have no idea which one I want to go to.
Anyway, the cafe was buzzing. The short line took a little while to get through but once we got to the counter we were greeted with a friendly French accent and our order for takeaway coffee was placed. From what I could tell of the menu, a lot of it seems to revolve around being in a strange sort of savoury crepe that looked very enticing and suspiciously delicious. I'm very excited about this because I found out that they are gluten free.
There was a short wait before I received my coffee and we continued on our way. Unfortunately they did not use Bonsoy - it tasted like Vitasoy but I cannot confirm on this occasion. Had they not been so busy I would have asked. Even still the coffee was very well made. It's strange for me to give a high rating to a soy coffee made without Bonsoy, but it was so good that I have given it a 9.
I'm looking forward to returning to Le Carpe Diem for breakfast or dessert some time.
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