Bond Coffee: a bit of a disappointment (closed)

Area:  a few blocks south of Fushimi station exit 6 伏見駅
Restaurant:  Bond Coffee  ボンドコーヒー
Website and map:  http://www.bondcoffee.jp/index.html
Easy to read map: http://tabelog.com/aichi/A2301/A230102/23000946/dtlmap/

Hours: 8am-7pm, (Morning 8am-10:30am, Lunch 11am-2pm)


Since I love sandwiches, I thought it would be a good place to come, since it advertises itself as a sandwich cafe on the door.  Unfortunately, the lunch service wasn't available today (since it was the weekend), but there were plenty of sandwiches to try on the menu. I went for the mix sandwich (¥700).  I thought it would be a nice surprise to see what the “Mix” was.  The coffee here is hand dripped, and if you order a sandwich or pasta, you get a ¥100 discount (normally ¥400).

When the sandwich came, I thought it was kind of small, maybe because the crusts were cut off.  There was just 1 type of sandwich, consisting of tomato, lettuce, cucumber and ham with mayo, mustard, and margarine.  The tomato and lettuce were fresh, but this sandwich was not so innovative, nor really a mix sandwich since it was basically all the same! It was on 2 different kinds of bread; plain white and a brown coloured one which was probably a kuro sato bread (a dark sugar), but I wonder if that's why it was called a mix sandwich.  

The coffee was a bit on the sour, old side, so I'm not sure how fresh it was.  

It's a quaint little cafe, with only 4 tables and it's relaxing with the instrumental music playing, but it was a bit of a disappointment on the food and drink side of things.  I've had better and cheaper.

Perhaps I will give it another chance and come back to try their Lunch Special sandwiches on a weekday.