Name: ALFONSITO | Brunch Cafe
Telephone: +34 637 12 52 30
Price range: $$$
Rating: 3.49

Unfortunately, I had a bad experience with this one. The pastry tasted weirdly salty (in like a chemical way) and half-way through eating it I noticed what looked to be small chunks of chicken in it. I alerted two different staff to this asking what the filling for the vegan empanada was supposed to be, thinking they may have given me the wrong one by mistake or worse yet made them with the wrong filling by mistake and they just brushed me off. I asked if they knew what the ingredients were and they said they suppose it’s just vegetables or something and left me wondering. It took a third person, lots of explaining, and 15 minutes of waiting for them to text someone, and have that someone text them back a blurry picture of a box’s ingredients list for them to show me what I just ate. Correct me if I’m wrong but, after working in hospitality myself, it’s the law to have copies of all product ingredients and allergens and to have them on hand in the place of sale, right? Why did this have to be so damn difficult? Is it so hard to even just write a more descriptive label for the thing like ‘vegan chicken and vegetable’ so we know a bit more of what to expect when we bite into it? Now I can’t go back because I annoyed them and made a classic pedantic-vegan impression of myself just to rest assured I didn’t just ingest some poor chicken’s flesh :(

Vegan Empanada

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I had this with soy milk and it had a nicely frothed layer on top. Again, a bit heavy-handed with the powders of these drinks as there’s always some sort of undissolved sludge at the bottom but it’s tasty.

Matcha Latte

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This açai bowl was topped with sliced banana, house made granola (though it was more like muesli), strawberries, raspberries, and dark cocoa nibs. The proportions and types of toppings worked very well together so this bowl was just delicious!

Açai Bowl

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They have a range of vegan milks to choose from, so I chose oat milk. Not as cheap as some other cafes in town but it was perfectly made and came out quickly even in peak hour.

Cafe Con Leche (avena)

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Looked great when it came out, but because the staff sprinkled the chocolate powder (which wasn’t sweet for some reason) absolutely everywhere including the handle, your fingers got grubby when you tried to pick up the cup. Unfortunately they had also burnt the coffee so it was quite bitter even when first eating the froth, which was one thing done well. A first for a coffee miss here, as they’re pretty good usually.

Cappuccino

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At first glance it looked more like banana bread but it was actually carrot cake. It came out on its side and was pretty plain without any icing or caramel drizzle. Just a bit of cinnamon dusted on top. It had a kind of spongey texture, again, like banana bread, and not like cake. All in all, it was ok but Vegan Rock does carrot cakes properly will all the trimmings and such.

Carrot Cake

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A lovely chai latte. Beautifully creamy soy milk. Perfect temperature when it came out in 2 minutes. Very nice on a cold winter’s day.

Chai Latte

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I ordered this one with oat milk. A very strong turmeric flavour as they overdo the powder mixes a bit here but tasty nonetheless! A bit grainy due to the mountain of powder they put in it but I’d rather that than a weak or bland latte so I didn’t mind too much.

Golden Latte

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It was pink alright! The soy milk I ordered for it was beautifully frothed, however the smoothness of the creamy top ended pretty soon because they kind of overdo it here with the powder mix. I noticed it for the golden latte too. It’s a bit grainy and you have this gritty sludge at the bottom because it just can’t dissolve in that little liquid. In saying that, the flavour was well strong so that’s the upside.