La Barista

Nice, clean, quaint place to enjoy good food and friends.

Awesome friendly place to get breakfast/lunch or a quick coffee! They have a meeting room you can rent, as well, which is really handy. I get Luke's Diner vibes here (from Gilmore Girls). It's a great place to chill with a friend, read a book and enjoy your drink. They do close in the late afternoon, bear that in mind if you want to go for dinner. They also have amazing catering services!

Great food and drinks! Excellent service!

Great place, food, location. Sadly you never know when they are open

There were 3 or 4 employees working and noone in line, but one other person waiting for their drink. There were quite a few people having lunch though. I ordered 2 drinks, a smoothie with lemonade blended in, and a Strawberry Italian Cream Soda. I had wanted a passion fruit one but they no longer do those. Fairly simple drinks. It was roughly a 10-15 minute wait to get those. I would expect that if there had been a bunch of others in line first, or maybe if I had ordered a coffee drink (but even then it would still be a little long). But for these 2 drinks that was quite long.

The strawberry smoothie lemonade was pretty good, very nice balance of sweet and sour. The Italian Cream Soda left me slightly disappointed. I think it was too much tonic/seltzer, as I didn't taste much of the cream or strawberry flavoring.

I will definitely go back because they are friendly and prices are good, just hopefully it will be a bit faster service next time.

I love my Mocha Frappe's & Northwoods Flatbread.

Great, friendly service. Their Chop salad, full or half, is wonderful! Love the Italian Baguette, as well as the pretzel bites w/beer cheese! So many and things to tempt your tummy!

Perfect menu for our family and outstanding customer service! We stumbled upon this Detroit Lakes gem while looking for a nice place for lunch and we were so pleased we did. Delicious and healthy menu with something for everyone including our two small kids in tow. Coffee was excellent, location was great and a chance encounter with the owner turned out to be better than we could have imagined. Thanks to all who are keeping this place in business.

Very nice coffee shop with wide variety of sandwiches and other food for breakfast, brunch, and lunch.

I have never been there before but will definitely go again !