Waterbean Coffee Exquisite

Food, drinks and service are all fantastic! Wonderful and quiet atmosphere. Overall a great place to get together with friends and family for a bite to eat or a quick coffee to go. They had a lot more than I anticipated walking in for the first time such as macarons, cookies and ice cream! Will definitely be coming back.

So happy this is open in Gastonia! Came for the first time Saturday morning and returned the following day! I loved the coffee, food, atmosphere, and service. It’s already got a great crowd and nice vibe. Super excited for this place and what it will bring to the neighborhood. It’s cool they offer all day food options and even wine/beer/cocktails and looks like ice cream too.

Beautiful building, Coffee is fine, service is, as you would expect from a fancy coffee place, not great. Plenty of seating, but they did not do counter/table service. So you wait in line, order your coffee and then wait for them to call your name...even if you're sitting right next to where they make it. 🤔

This place is gorgeous! Staff is friendly, food and coffee was amazing! Can't wait to sign up for one of their classes! Highly recommend!

Lox and Bagel were fabulous! Salted caramel coffee was amazing! A great place for a Sunday brunch or meeting space.

I was excited for this place but was a bit disappointed. I got a classic macchiato and it had the same issues I always get at the Belmont location - sour espresso and poorly steamed milk. You can tell in my pictures that the milk has large, soapy air bubbles that aren't smooth and popped almost instantly, leaving me with just a milky drink instead of a fluffy, steamed milk drink. It didn't taste good either, very sour. I can make a better macchiato at home with my hand grinder and $100 espresso machine. They really need to get someone in here and the Belmont location to do a shot-pulling and milk steaming workshop. On the plus side, it is a really nice place. Cool interior, comfortable chairs, and a lot of space - it's a good spot to work. The bar is really cool and reminds me of a Starbucks Reserve, which is awesome that we have a place like this in Gastonia. The AI art decorations were a bit of a let down, though. Like at the Belmont location, Waterbean is great if you like flavored drinks - their syrups are high quality and they make some interesting and delicious "fancy" drinks. Definitely not the place to get espresso-heavy drinks (shot/cappuccino/cortado/etc) though, unless you like them sour and poorly-steamed. It's way too expensive for bad espresso 🙁

Super beautiful place really enjoyed the coffee and the food very peaceful place