{"id":261,"date":"2022-06-02T19:15:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2022-09-02T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T16:07:17","slug":"bongo-coffee-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/02\/bongo-coffee-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"Bongo Coffee – Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BONGO COFFEE – Nashville<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s review is a special one! First off\u2014I\u2019ll be reviewing this spot on my own and without the input of the true connoisseur: my father. Second of all\u2014I\u2019m in Nashville! And so is this cool coffee joint. And finally: I started drinking oat milk rather than cow milk in my lattes, so keep that in consideration! It definitely changes the profile of the drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bongo Coffee. Where do I begin? Let\u2019s start with how I narrowed down the taking of my Nashville coffee shop virginity to this little unassuming spot? Well, I typed \u201ccafe\u201d into my google maps and tried to find a spot that appeared to be conducive to click-clacking away on my little laptop and getting some good old-fashioned WORK done. Bongo fit the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside the Bongo Coffee shop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Usually, I preface a review by describing whereabouts the cafe is. Unfortunately, I have no idea where I am right now. I literally don\u2019t even know where I am in Tennessee. I probably couldn\u2019t point to Tennessee on an unlabeled map, to be completely transparent. The best I can do is: ~East Nashville~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jackie with her Bongo iced latte!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Okay, so I walk in. It\u2019s very big and open. Lots of tables. Exactly what I was looking for. The building is actually split into two halves; on the right, there are shelves filled with board games and on the left there is the coffee counter. There is also a poster that says \u201cALL WELCOME: ALL RACES, ALL GENDERS, ALL SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS\u201d always a good sign. And always a good sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The barista is beaming at me like I\u2019m her favorite person on this planet. I ordered an iced latte w 3 shots of espresso and oat milk. It came in a very typical environmental-destroying plastic cup. It was honestly hard to discern how much of what I was tasting was attributable to the oat milk (with which I am still becoming familiar) as opposed to the espresso itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truly, I did not find much to be very special about this latte. It was a little flavorless. I swished it around on my tongue over and over and could not find a single adjective in my brain to describe it. However, I did find that the 3 shot:oat milk ratio was pretty solid in the medium-sized cup. As we\u2019ve discussed time and time again, the milk:espresso ratio is one of the most common ways that a latte can be tainted. I\u2019ve been adding an extra shot usually in all my lattes, which seems to do the trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So\u2014The latte left much to be desired but I loved the atmosphere, the abundance of games that I didn\u2019t play, and the happy barista.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rating: 6\/10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BONGO COFFEE – Nashville Today\u2019s review is a special one! First off\u2014I\u2019ll be reviewing this spot on my own and without the input of the true connoisseur: my father. Second of all\u2014I\u2019m in Nashville! And so is this cool coffee joint. And finally: I started drinking oat milk rather than cow milk in my lattes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slclatte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}