Mother Fool's Coffee House
Coffee/Tea/Juice
vegetarian
Vegan coffee house
Besides coffee and tea, Mother Fool's serves pastries, muffins, scones, and cookies. Homemade soup is available at lunchtime. All the food is vegan, although they do serve cream cheese and milk for the coffee.
The wireless internet is free for customers.
Directions:
On the corner of Ingersoll and Williamson
- Live Music
- Wireless (free)
Added by Gregory on Jul 15 06 (updated Nov 25 08)
Mother Fool's has a cool, edgy, artistic vibe and is also quite cozy. Maybe it's a little bit too cozy, as the place is small and single people tend to sprawl out with laptops, hunker-down for hours and take up tables designed for two or more people.
As such, my friend and I had a hard time finding a place to sit down even though the place wasn't busy by any means.
We eventually found a table tucked in a back nook, separated from the main room. The lighting needs improvement back there, as each table has a tiny desk lamp with a mega-high-wattage CFL bulb, which are blinding in tight, confined spaces like that. Kudos for using CFLs, but we had to put our lamp on the floor because it was too bright at eye-level, but shutting it off would have put us in the dark.
I liked that they had loose-leaf teas. Their baked goods are all vegan and we tried their gingerbread cookie and also a cranberry scone. The cookie was decent, but nothing spectacular. The scone was oily, soft and completely under-baked, but still tasted okay, oddly enough. What I liked best were the prices: the baked goods maxed out at $2 each, with most hovering around $1.50-$1.90. That's cheap.
Nice atmosphere and nice prices at Mother Fool's. It just needs more space and better lighting. The baked goods could use a quality upgrade, but at least they're inexpensive.