The Sweet Shop Cafe & Lounge

I absolutely love this cafe shop. The owner is a very nice and friendly man, he usually mans the front counter. I've visited this establishment many times over the last 6 years and have never had a bad experience. The teas selection is phenomenal as well as are the various cafe style food dishes. My favorite is probably the grilled cheese. It goes really well with a Tzatziki like style spice blend that the owner once offered me to try with the grilled cheese at his recommendation (after having bought the pita sandwich a dozen or so times). My favorite tea is probably the mint tea, unsweetened (hot or cold). I really loved the hot saffron tea that used to be offered, but it was discontinued several years ago because of high saffron prices making it too cost inefficient for sale as a tea flavoring, but that just shows good business sense, at least. This is one of my favorite local shops by the FSU campus. I definitely recommend this place.

We were at the Sweet Shop with our gluten free child twice this weekend. Both days, we asked for the banana Nutella croissant without the croissant. To be clear, we were asking if you could simply put the banana on a plate and drizzle some Nutella on it, no bread please, just put it on a plate. Actually, you don’t even have to drizzle the Nutella, just plop some down next to the banana. Not asking for a price cut, willing to pay full price, just don’t give us the croissant. We won’t even take the croissant, you can sell the same croissant to someone else.

The first day, the cashier told us that the manager said there could be absolutely no substitutions on any order. The second day, the cashier actually asked both the manager and the cook and we were told absolutely not. No one told us that you have gluten-free bread, and I suspect it’s because you don’t actually have gluten-free bread but you just said so after a candid review. There was no gluten-free menu. It’s not hard to make a small concession that means a big deal to someone else. The fact that you chose not to do speaks volumes about who you are and how you do business.

The coffee is hot though, so there’s that.

Located in a prime spot next to the campus, I love going here to get cool drinks, lots of options with food as well

Great coffee... owner should smile more! doesn't look enjoys his job

A must stop when visiting FSU, based on location and tradition. Don't expect food to be more than basic and as described. A smile would make the place much more welcoming, but I guess dealing with teenagers all day would errode that smile a bit. 🙂

The experience I had from who I assume was the owner of the store was very unpleasant. On top of being verbally abbrasive and just overall rude from my experience, from what I can see from other negative reviews he can't take criticism either and comes off as condescending in every response. Dont come here unless that changes 💀

I think I might have been the most regular customer during my time here at FSU. It was a pleasure interacting with and getting to know everyone who works here. I always felt welcome and it was nice being able to order my "usual" and have everyone know what I meant. I'll miss everyone!

I believe the Sweet shop Manager was racially profiling me because he had absolutely no good reason to get flustered and to be obnoxious towards me when I was talking to his employee cashier about my order. He ended up not giving my request about less ice in my drink and rejected it even though I told the cashier twice before he made me the drink. He was talking very rudely and made it seem like I was unwanted, and unwelcomed then I requested for a refund. He made his cashier stop giving me a refund while she was in the process to and told them to put up a sign. Beware and warn others of his malicious ways. Also this place is overpriced and the WiFi sucks.

A nice place to hang out in between classes if you are a student. There is plenty of seating, a keyboard, a chess board, and free WiFi. The outside seating would be nice if it weren't for a somewhat busy 3-way stop right outside. The food and coffee is definitely overpriced for what it is. It would be much better if the prices were reasonable.

First off, practically everything I've ordered here has been overpriced. Their coffee drinks are priced higher than Starbucks and yet the quality pales in comparison. The other issue is the management. For a company located on campus, you'd think they'd understand that their majority demographic will be students with backpacks and waterbottles. I have seen the manager kick a student out who was trying to buy a drink simply because she also had a waterbottle on the side of her backpack. She quite resonably said "but I'm buying a drink?" to which the manager replied "buying a drink doesn't justify bringing one in." I can't think of a faster way to lose a customer.

That said, I believe most people choose this cafe because of it's convenient location and study atmosphere. While it does have these elements, there are TONS of quality coffee shops around campus which are much more worthy of our business. If you specifically want to go local, I highly recommend Calvin's, Lucky Goat, and Black Dog which all feature quality drinks, reasonable prices, and comfortable atmospheres where you are in fact welcome to bring in your water bottle.