The Optimist Raleigh

The food is good but the service is SO SLOW. Bring a snack or something. You’ll be waiting a while for your food. Also they have an outdoor window but ignore people when they are standing there? Not sure if there is a reason but the person at front didn’t bother to explain so I just stood there confused until I walked inside.

Had a hot black sesame latte, worth it! Will be coming back to try the other interesting coffee flavors and their food. This is also a great place to just relax and enjoy the space.

We were so excited for this place but ended up a little disappointed. The sandwich was very greasy made the english muffin soggy. Flavored Lattes were bitter not sweet (might just be personal preference) Beautiful indoor space just a little tight. There was an outdoor seating area. Also it seems like you get more coffee if you order to go, we needed ours to go but they gave us glass cups and so I poured my coffee (untouched) into a to go cup and it came up about half way (there is only 1 size).

I love this place. The coffee is great, the atmosphere is amazing, the food is meh but I love working here and people watching. They have live music too once in a while.

The décor and vibe of the place was good, but the table was dirty, and the food was ok, if much. The scrambled eggs was embarrassing, dry, crumbling and cold. The toast was definitely not worth the money. The turkey club was tasty.