Cody Road Coffee - Le Claire

Ran in for a quick cup of coffee while waiting for shops to open. Cute decor and merchandise, friendly workers and great coffee!

I think Cody Road Coffee in LeClaire is a great place to come for smoothies, muffins and cookies (love the oatmeal cookie).

Well the initial impression of this locally owned coffee shop is exactly what a small coffee shop should be. Open, friendly, a good selection of coffee beverages both hot and cold. As well as the energy drinks that have invaded coffee shops now. Sorry I'm a hot coffee purest. Anyways.The shop has a Western style thyme and as the name implies is based on Buffalo Bill Cody, as LaClair, IA is his home town. The shop is very clean and has a limited sitting space in side. As well as street and a side patio sitting outside. This was a Five Star experience.The Coffee on the other hand was strange. I will start with the drip coffee. They have two drip coffees on tap. A dark roast and light roast. When my wife was served the light roast the first red flag should have been when the Barista offered to steam the milk to heat the coffee. As my wife likes her coffee on the cooler side and coffee shop coffee is supposed to be served hot, she didn't want it any hotter than it should have already should have been. Except it was just hot then lukewarm. Which also means it was well past needing to be dumped and being replaced. I always test a new coffee shop with having them make either a flat white or a Barista's Choice hot coffee with a few extra shots. This time I went with the Barista's Choice. Barista made me a large Pumpkin Cheesecake Latte with 3 extra shots. The drink was delicious for the first 1/3 of the drink. But, on the start of the next 2/3 something about the coffee changed. The flavor was gone, the coffee's complete profile change too. As a serious coffee drinker and enthusiast with the mantra of I make coffee addicts look like quitters. So, when I can't say something about a coffee it's rare! It's a shame because the little that I did enjoy was really good, but threw away 2/3's of a large drink away. We also got a blueberry muffin. Didn't get! It only had 2 blueberries in it. Even though it was large, it was sort of dry and crumbly. It was more of a sugar bread with a two blue dots. If you go by small drink and make sure it is freshly and baked. The re

As a business owner. I am appalled that you have not taught your staff to count change back. People use cash! I would be very embarrassed if someone came to my business and my staff running the register did not know how to do simple subtraction. I realize it’s a modern world. But this should be taught to every employee! Not everyone uses cards. And when they can’t figure out the change, and have to pull out the phone. It makes your business look bad. I told them how much the change was and she still proceeded to put it in her phone. And tell me she would do it anyway. Not to make a mistake.The mistake is letting your employees have their phone with them when they should be making coffee and tea.This is not the first time I have had bad service here, from snotty a 20 year old. Or I probably wouldn’t have wrote a review.

Cute little place. Good service and good coffee. Just wish it had more indoor seating but the sidewalk seating was nice when the weather allowed.