Reviews Nicto's Coffee Shop

If youare cofee based drinker, you would appreciate the place. If you want peace where you can have your own time or private chitchat, be here. Price is okay for the quality, staff are too timid though.

AFFORDABLE AND GOOD COFFEE! The flat white and the dark mocha are perfect caffeine boosts and they're much cheaper than your bigger chains!

But don't keep yourself from trying their foods! Tried their sandwiches, soup, and pastries and so far none have disappointed. Wanna try their rice bowls next time.

The place is clean, well-lit, and intimate.

THEY HAVE PARKING SPACE!

There are sockets everywhere and seats are all comfy and tables are always clean!

Even the washroom is clean and 'instagrammable'

AGAIN, VERY GOOD COFFEE IN THE AREA FOR ITS PRICE!!

This is a fairly new coffee shop along East Capitol Drive, on the second floor of a brand new building that's still undergoing some construction. It is family-run and socially oriented, as they ask for donations from customers to give to the parish in the neighbourhood. 

Sagada beans, roasted Italian style, are used for their espresso brews, and they've said that they plan to brew coffee in other popular third wave styles. 

I've tried their Holiday in a Cup exclusive coffee, which is a hazelnut flavoured latte, served in a glass rimmed with peppermint, sugar, and salt. The salt makes a difference! Fun, tasty, happy, happy drink. 

The cafe is all-white, cheerful, and they have pastries to go with their coffee, as well as some breakfast rice bowls.

Great Ambience & Delicious Coffee 😍 Wanted to try something different. This place did not disappoint. A nice getaway from a crowded SB w/ chatty millennials 😜

Nicto's -- I always think of the name as the inverse of "tonic," only with apostrophe and an "s." Haha.

As you might expect, this is a coffee shop in the Kapitolyo area. I love Kapitolyo because of its somewhat laidback atmosphere (unlike, say, Maginhawa) and of course it's nearer to where I live. Although I've been in the area numerous times, I've never seen Nicto's before.

Turns out that this is just a new kid on the Kapitolyo block, just near to a dilapidated building where Tomahawk Chops and Grill and The Round Table used to stand.

So I decided to check it out.

I thought I was the first customer that day. I went there about 11 am methinks. Had a brunch there.

🔸Creamy Chicken Baguette (₱150) - Baguette is a heavy bread for me, so this meal can even be shared by two persons with smaller appetites. I dislike celery, but it worked well on this chicken filling -- and there were lots of celery in it that they could have put me off. But instead, I was surprised how good it was. It tasted just right, not too bland nor too flavorful, and the filling was generous. I could not finish this though, so I took it out. And oh, it was served with chips too, so sulit na rin siya.

🔸Oat Taking (₱60) - I am a fan of the classic chocolate chip cookie and I generally do not like any other thing in it, including oats. However, I will make this an exception to this cookie. As always, chocolate chip cookies are best eaten when re-heated -- you take delight at those melted chocolate chips that ooze out of the cookie after every bite.

🔸Cafe Latte (₱120) - That was the thing I needed the most because I was feeling weary and irritable at the time. As it was a latte, it was rich and milky. I was okay with it not having sugar.

The interiors were almost all-white and quite minimalist in design. It had a clean, cozy and a "no-fuss" ambience, although there were a few accent pieces that stood out like those two pink armchairs at the corner. Other than those, the furnishings were all in monochrome. The natural light from the outside made the whole interior even brighter.

Yes, it will be the next place for all of you coffee-loving hipsters out there hehehe.

The restroom was also nice and clean.

I didn't know that they also had rice meals. Another customer after me ordered a rice bowl meal. It wasn't listed on the menu kasi, nor did they mention or recommend that to me. Had I known (or asked), I would have ordered a rice meal instead (as I am more of a rice person).
Although I almost always prefer hot coffee over iced and frappe, it seems me that Nicto's are promoting their iced coffee drinks a lot, so I will try them on my next visit.

I have no idea what their signature "Nicspresso Quake" is, I guess it's also an iced coffee (correct me if I'm wrong though).