The Roar & Pour Coffee shop lives up to its name. They’re making me roar. About their food that is.
The Roar & Pour Coffee shop at GJHS is a student-run business located on the first floor by the culinary arts department. The opening was announced to Grand Junction High School staff on Nov 8. I had the incredible honor to try their hot chocolate, coffee, and most importantly their addictive orange cake.
In this review, I was joined by my friend Aaron Gomez, a junior at GJHS, in order to help me rate the coffee they serve. This is an Eli Eats article, but with an Aaron assist. I am a reviewer for Eli Eats so I am not necessarily a drink reviewer. So I brought Aaron with me because coffee has a tendency to act as a primitive laxative for me.
I ordered their hot chocolate with whipped cream and peppermint flavoring. The hot chocolate itself is $2 and the added peppermint flavoring was an extra 25 cents. After we were done ordering, we had to wait for it to be prepared. By the time we got it, it was scorching hot.
The hot chocolate was insanely delicious. It filled my fat belly with a warm happy feeling that made me want to kick my feet like a joyous school kid. The cocoa was not watery at all, which I find is the most common problem. The peppermint added to the cocoa was controversial between me and Aaron. I loved the faint peppermint in the cocoa, but Aaron held the wrong belief that there was too much peppermint.
My only problem with the cocoa is the whipped cream melting before I could enjoy it without sending my mouth to the burning lakes of hell, but I suppose I can’t complain about something I never had.
The coffee we got was the Caramel Dream for $2, which can be ordered iced or hot. We got the hot option, and I must say the presentation was beautiful. The coffee had a hazel cream color that looked appetizing even to me, who is not at all a coffee person. I tried a sip of the coffee, but as stated before, I am biased when it comes to coffee so Aaron was the main reviewer in this case.
Aaron said, “It tastes like coffee with caramel. It’s sweet with a good after-taste.”
Aaron believed the coffee could have used more flavors, but he overall enjoyed the hot beverage. While we were munching on apple and orange cakes, I observed him constantly slurping his Caramel Dream down. He gave the coffee a 7/10 review and said it could use more flavors.
The best things at the Roar & Pour Coffee Shop which I have expertise in are their cakes, which are heaven in your mouth. Aaron and I both agreed that the orange cake is the best. The two cakes they had available when we went were the orange cake and the apple cake which were each $1.50 a slice.
The apple cake was a spongy sweet cake with little bits of apple inside. I have absolutely no problems with the apple cake besides the fact that I simply liked the orange cake better.
The orange cake was addictive in how good it was. It was obvious when we were trying the drinks and food that the orange cake was getting picked at the most. It was a yellowish piece of spongy cake that had a sweet tangy flavor. It didn’t dehydrate my mouth when I would eat it like normal cake would usually. The sweetness wasn’t overwhelming to the point where I had to sip down some cocoa to get rid of it.
The worst part of my day was when I ran out of crumbs on my plate from the orange cake. It was incredibly good and addicting. Both me and Aaron agreed on a very good 8/10 rating on the orange cake and a less but still very solid 7/10 on the apple cake.
My only real criticism I could give to the Roar & Pour Coffee shop is the hours that they are open: Three mornings a week during first hour.
When I went on Wednesday morning, Dec. 11, it almost seemed like no one even knew it existed. I assume most people have classes during the times they are open. If they wish to get more attention from the school, they might want to consider changing their hours to a more pragmatic time or have a cart that is available for students on each floor.
The Roar & Pour Coffee shop is open for students and teachers below:
Monday – CLOSED
Tuesday- OPEN- 8-8:30 a.m.
Wednesday- OPEN- 8-9:10 a.m.
Thursday- CLOSED
Friday- OPEN- 8-8:30 a.m.
