Costa Coffee

Standard drinks, nice open space, range of seating - enough for chilled comfybseatingbor more working lunch kinda style. It's nice, bright. The music, however, was rather loud, ended up asking them to turn it down in the end - which for heir credit they did pretty quickly - and much appreciated. Staff very nice and friendly, drink was really good standard

Costa on Cowley Rd has great staff who are warm and friendly, particularly if you are a regular. in the days of the legendary manager, Monika, it was truly the place to be, though it's still a good place to hang out and drink coffee. One thing that lets it down--and other Costa stores--is that they employ staff from diverse countries and then, insultingly, have as free newspapers downright racist papers like the Mail and The Express. They thrive on multiculturalism in other words, and then indirectly feed socially hostile attitudes to immigrants.

It was a wet and miserable day, therefore it was seriously busy and steamy in here. Overall a lovely coffee shop but very difficult to manoeuvre if you have a pushchair and children. I wasn't overly impressed with the cleanliness of the toilets and it would be nice to have a slightly better age appropriate child friendly range of snacks and drinks available.