5
602 E Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA 50309, USA
Des Moines, Iowa 50309
+1 515-243-0815

Always great food, and super friendly! They are doing a great thing for our community!

Affordable fresh and a great place all around!!!! Service is great and the atmosphere is perfect.

This place always looks busy and has queues. However, the staff work hard and tables turn over quite quickly so you don't have to wait long. The atmosphere is great and there are a good range of coffees. The hot chocolate is served at a perfect drinking temperature and it was excellent. The cakes all looked amazing so it was..

A wonderful place for coffee! The staff are always friendly!

The prices on the books aren't accurate, so it'll be a surprise once you get to the cashier (not always a good surprise). Some of the books have the price written on the inside, some have tabbed-notes inserted, some both contradicting each other and some have no prices at all. It takes too long to ring up the books. Too much emphasis on the food and coffee (supposedly they're going to have ice cream next summer, too) makes the book shopping aspect less enjoyable. The upstairs area isn't properly marked, so you don't know what belongs to the bookstore and which to the Optimae company it shares the building with. However, you have to go upstairs since the employees on the main floor are too damn boisterous to enjoy browsing the bookshelves. I waited 6 years to try this place out; I had made attempts to go here in the past but the East Village is such an abysmally plastic part of town it's hard to enjoy the remaining indie shops. This wasn't worth the wait; overall the place is trying to be too many things without doing much very well. I was already regretting buying my stack of books and supporting this business before I had signed the credit card receipt, but I didn't have the nerve to leave midway through the transaction. I want to support an independent bookstore, but this place isn't worth the hassle. It's less a bookstore and more a smug joke.

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Plain Talk Books Coffee

Cafe at 602 E Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA 50309, USA. Here you will find detailed information about Plain Talk Books Coffee: address, phone, fax, opening hours, customer reviews, photos, directions and more.

Opening hours

  • Monday
    7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
  • Tuesday
    7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
  • Wednesday
    7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
  • Thursday
    7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
  • Friday
    7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
  • Saturday
    9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
  • Sunday
    Closed

Rating

4
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5
Based on 5 reviews

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State:
Iowa
Address:
602 E Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA 50309, USA.
City:
Des Moines
Postcode:
50309

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ALL reviews about Plain Talk Books Coffee

  • Kayla
    Added 2016.03.31
    Always great food, and super friendly! They are doing a great thing for our community!
  • Nathan
    Added 2015.02.10
    Affordable fresh and a great place all around!!!! Service is great and the atmosphere is perfect.
  • Hannah
    Added 2014.08.10
    This place always looks busy and has queues. However, the staff work hard and tables turn over quite quickly so you don't have to wait long. The atmosphere is great and there are a good range of coffees. The hot chocolate is served at a perfect drinking temperature and it was excellent. The cakes all looked amazing so it was..
  • Eric
    Added 2014.04.17
    A wonderful place for coffee! The staff are always friendly!
  • Kylie
    Added 2013.08.16
    The prices on the books aren't accurate, so it'll be a surprise once you get to the cashier (not always a good surprise). Some of the books have the price written on the inside, some have tabbed-notes inserted, some both contradicting each other and some have no prices at all. It takes too long to ring up the books. Too much emphasis on the food and coffee (supposedly they're going to have ice cream next summer, too) makes the book shopping aspect less enjoyable. The upstairs area isn't properly marked, so you don't know what belongs to the bookstore and which to the Optimae company it shares the building with. However, you have to go upstairs since the employees on the main floor are too damn boisterous to enjoy browsing the bookshelves. I waited 6 years to try this place out; I had made attempts to go here in the past but the East Village is such an abysmally plastic part of town it's hard to enjoy the remaining indie shops. This wasn't worth the wait; overall the place is trying to be too many things without doing much very well. I was already regretting buying my stack of books and supporting this business before I had signed the credit card receipt, but I didn't have the nerve to leave midway through the transaction. I want to support an independent bookstore, but this place isn't worth the hassle. It's less a bookstore and more a smug joke.
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