Caffeinated

Great environment, with delicious coffee and pastries! Only hangup is I wish they had coldbrew coffee.. other than that this place is great!

Great pastry choices. Can't wait to go again.
I liked it too!! Thanks for the great surprise... Love, Sweetie

Best blended mocha! The ladies here are very nice and friendly. I have found my new coffee spot! Will definitely be back!

Great little gourmet coffee shop with homemade touch baked goods! Good prices 👍🏻

Always a great stop with friendly staff

The coffee was good the prices are good but I wouldn't call the people making the coffee barista...

Nice ambiance and setup. It's our go to spot when we're in town. The drinks and food are all really good and glad this place is doing well. The cakes are pretty good as well.

The menu is amazing. Big city coffee shop right here in Colusa with small town friendliness, great personal service, and great food made on the premises. The cakes are beautiful!

THIS COFFEE JOINT GETS NEGATIVE FIVE STARS FOR HORRIFIC CUSTOMER SERVICE. I unfortunately had a run in with a stout, middle-aged mean woman, who I am assuming to be the head manager (?) of the “Caffeinated” coffeeshop this morning. I am an out-of-town visitor from southern California and am currently on work leave dealing with serious political issues affecting my job. At first, I thought this coffee shop was cool, as it was a great place to enjoy coffee and remotely work on my computer in the morning on some difficult work-related issues. This coffeeshop was just down the street from Colusa’s fabulous state campground, where my friend and I were “ruffin’ it” for a few days to switch up our routine.

This morning was perhaps my seventh and unfortunately last visit to “Caffeinated,” as I was rudely approached by this woman, who I am assuming to be the manager of the property, who felt entitled to suddenly sit down at my work table, WITHOUT A MASK, to interrogate me about all my personal details: what am I working on, where am I from, why am I here, why be here in Colusa and not somewhere else? Like why in the hell is this any of her business? Apparently, one of the staff ladies made a false and offending complaint about me to this manager. The complaint was that “I spent too much time in the bathroom,” which led to conversational assumptions that I was homeless, and that I was bathing and making a big mess in the bathroom, and I was in there for extensive amounts of time. If anyone would like to know the “dirty details” of this morning’s routine: >>> Based on my needing to relieve myself three times, potty squatting a few minutes with each visit, over 3 or 4 hours of my working there, I think I used the bathroom quite normally. Otherwise, I ordered coffee, made friendly chatter with a couple of locals, sat in the corner, worked on the computer, and kept to myself, like any good ordinary coffeeshop customer.

And as soon as this lady found out I will be leaving this town today, she said, "Okay." and abruptly left the table as suddenly as she came. And then she publicly blurted out to her staff, “Oh, she’ll be leaving today, so let it go.” The way how this lady manager approached me and interrogated me, abruptly and rudely, and in a very entitled and nosy way, AND WITHOUT OBSERVING ANY COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS, she made me feel extremely uncomfortable and even to the point of humiliation on the premises of her own business. Never had I been in a situation where staff went out of their way to make up false bathroom occupation claims, in which the assumptions led to bathing and homelessness. THIS WOMAN REALLY CROSSED THE LINE WITH POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE, AND THIS SITUATION WAS BASICALLY CUSTOMER HARASSMENT.

I really try my very best to support local, small-town coffeeshops, but this was by far the worst experience I have ever had in such a venue. I returned to the state campground in the early afternoon, and a couple of locals happened to validate my experiences of this now-wretched place. In random conversation with my friend, these Colusa residents stated that the people who run that coffeeshop don’t treat the customers or the employees very well. I am so sad to hear, and now I’m just another victim of it. Usually, I want the small guy to win. I want the David’s of coffeehouses to survive in the Goliath industry of Starbucks. But unfortunately, I discovered why this coffeeshop is so small and self-limiting.

To go out of your way to make offensive and grandiose statements, along with overstepping your bounds to interrogating me to the point of harassment, I will NEVER set foot in this coffee joint ever again. And now Caffeinated can enjoy the menu of KARMA: “You Get Served What You Deserve:” an unfortunate and honest review. (see full review in image)

Good coffee, nice prople.