The Protagonist Café

​The Protagonist Cafe

This awesome cafe is nestled in the heart of Soulard! It's not just a cafe either, but a cafe and then some! The and then some being books, shirts, cups, mugs, stickers, and more! They have a really great book selection too, but back to the cafe! We have visited the Protagonist Cafe two times now, once on each of our trips to St. Louis and each time we had a great time and enjoyed every aspect of our visit! Fun and cool little fact! They have their own permanent roaster named Martney who is a female roaster! They have three different roasts at the cafe: a Nicaraguan medium roast, an Ethiopian light roast, and a guatemala dark roast! I tried the coffee on my first visit! had it black with splenda! BEST coffee I have ever had hands down! I am a coffee nut and if you are too you will not be disappointed! Dad Had it on our second visit and he said it was AWESOME as well! If Dad and I say the coffee is good then you know it is as we are picky when it comes to our coffee!!!!  On our first visit all I decided to get was coffee and Marissa got a Caramel Delight (which I tried and it was better than anything you could imagine! Dunkin and Starbucks have nothing on this place!)! On our second trip I decided to get a pastry for breakfast! Another fun fact they have bakers that bake all of their pastries for them each day at their sister establishment! They have fresh baked pastries each day! For my pastry I chose the Samoa Cookie. It is a chilled cookie (I believe it has oats and coconut in it) . It is very dense and tasty! On the bottom it is slightly dipped in chocolate giving it a layer of chocolate as well as having chocolate drizzled over the top! It was great and one of the best cookies I have ever had! I liked that it was chilled and cool as well! Everyone tried it as it was the size of a small saucer plate which is a great deal for the price it was! Everyone else agreed it was one of the best cookies they have had as well! (picture below)! On our second visit Marissa had the same Carmel Delight as on our first visit and Mom had that as well! They knocked it out of the park on those again! Mom and Dad chose to get pastries on our visit as well Mom chose the Raspberry Thumbprint Pasty and Dad Chose the Lemon Bundt Cake with cream cheese in the middle! Marissa and I tried both of them and they are awesome as well! We were 100% pleased with both of our visits and will be going back next time we are in St. Louis! We never had a long wait time. Everything we ordered was ready and prepared properly in a quick and timely manner! This is great and says a lot as they are always busy and full of people! You know a place is good when it is always full of people! They also have indoor and outdoor seating inside there are tables, couches, chairs etc. and outside they have picnic tables out front on the large brick sidewalk! Yes you read that right brick sidewalk! Soulard is a historical part of St. Louis and most of it still has the original brick sidewalks which makes the experience even better! If you are ever in Soulard while visiting St. Louis the Protagonist Cafe is a must try! Great atmosphere, great service, great and friendly people (workers and patrons)! We highly recommend it! Tell them Collin and Marissa sent you! The Protagonist Cafe gets a 5 out 5 stars from all of us! Check out the photos below from both of our visits! 

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