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Amici Coffee  Hot
Cafes and Bakeries Coffee Shops
Written by Michelle.   
Thursday, 22 March 2007
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Name (Chinese): 欧米奇咖啡厅
Address (Chinese): 1. 中山区百年城2楼 2.沙河口区天兴罗斯福西安路139号 3. 中山区中山路28号胜利广场1楼 4. 大连市中山区友好路105号 5.曼哈顿一楼
Address (Pinyin): 1.2F Parkland, ZhongShan District 2.139 Xi'an Lu, Roosevelt Center, Shahekou District 3 28 Zhongshan Lu, Zhongshan District 4 105 Youhao Lu, Zhongshan District 5. 1F Manhattan Building, Zhongshan District
Directions: 1. 2F Parkland, ZhongShan District 2 Next to MYKAL Supermarket, Shahekou District 3 1F Shengli Square
Telephone Number: 8230-8377 (Zhongshan District), 8389-9577 (Shahekou District) 3. 82503101(Shengli Square) 4. 8253-7400 5. 8253-7400
Webpage or Email Contact Details: www.amici.cn

Japanese coffee shop with a Western theme. Fresh coffee roasted in store daily.

The fourth branch's business time is: 8:30 - 22:00


Amici has a new Heishijiao location, same building as the MacDonalds / Subway. Same set up as the others, but with the majority of space being non-smoking. Service is still finding its feet . . .


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Average user rating from: 5 user(s)

Overall rating
5.1
Drinks
5.8
Food
4.8
Music
1.8
Environment
6.2
Service
6.6
Cost
5.4
 

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful

nice place, Thursday, 04 September 2008

Written by sportie1   -  View all my reviews  - Top 100 Reviewer

been to the amici coffee and food place at Hei Shi Jiao with a couple of buddies and my girlfriend-- very impressed with the service, clean, up-beat decor and the quality of food= lots of choices-- some western and chinese style-- with very good prices-- been back many times and will continue to do so
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Wolfbreezer
Good Coffee at outlet opp. Ramada, Monday, 07 January 2008

Written by Wolfbreezer   -  View all my reviews  - Top 10 Reviewer

Had coffee with a friend there once and had dinner on a second visit.

Good coffee, cake was so so, edible, and better than starbucks...

Don't remember any music there, but the place is always crowded, no matter which day we are there.

Dinner I had creamy seafood spagetti, which is not bad, but can be better.

I don't mind dropping by for a cup of hot coffee, but for dinner, I'll be there when I'm too lazy to travel far.
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amaliacarmel
Amici Coffee & DONUTS! Yes, DONUTS!, Wednesday, 26 December 2007

Written by amaliacarmel   -  View all my reviews  - Top 500 Reviewer

To the right of the main entrance to Victory Plaza (down the escalator), I came across what could be considered a minor miracle. Donuts! Honest to goodness, pretty tasty, pretty fresh (you can watch them make them) DONUTS! They have a special at the moment on packages of cinnamon & sugar cake donuts, 5 for 8 RMB. The raised donuts (chocolate frosted, glazed, pineapple, etc,) range in price from 2 to 3.5 RMB for 1. Their coffee is all right. The service is fast, though if you ask for a dozen, they'll give you 6 boxes of two each. The 5 per package box doesn't really hold the donuts well.
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jomicl
Food poison, Monday, 12 November 2007

Written by jomicl   -  View all my reviews  - Top 10 Reviewer

I went there last week for a bit of breakfast with a friend. Both of us ended up hugging the toilet for the next couple days...so I highly recommend avoiding the breakfasts. The service while we were there was pretty good. The waitress came over regularly and served us rather quickly. The food itself seemed fine. Tried to get eggs, and they sent out a weird mess with the eggs already broken. My buddies was a bit better off as they only broke one of his eggs. I think if it hadn't been for getting sick it would have been a decent place.
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awm
amici coffee shop, Thursday, 12 April 2007

Written by awm   -  View all my reviews  - Top 50 Reviewer

There are in fact 3 Amici coffee shops in Dalian. Michelle has mentioned one in Victory Square (across the square from KFC which has a large ornament of a coffee cup over the door). I am reviewing the second shop which is located on the intersection between Huanghe Lu and Xi'an Lu; in the block containing the Mykal store (opposite the Carrefour Supermarket).
The coffee is good with several varieties. This month there is a coffee promotion with certain cups at 10 RMB. This week (9-14 April) is Americano week; next week is Latte week; and th last week in April is House Brew week. You can order a pot of Colombian at 28 RMB or coffee and cake for 24 RMB (cakes are nice!).
The food is Italian style; smallish portions but not too expensive: with the peppered steak at 28 RMB and most pizzas 19-28 RMB.
Ambiance is OK; some of the seating is basic banquettes but there are several "tables for two". Music is background (Carpenters' tape on at the moment)
The let-down is the service. The permanent staff are VERY good, but there is a heavy reliance on casuals in the evenings and some of these are untrained. Hence my 4 for service (otherwise it would have been an 8). There is a breakfast menu (not tried it yet) and the place closes at 9 pm.
The other attraction for some is that there is wireless Internet for free at the Cafe.
There is also a link with DalianXpat on Fridays at 7 pm, when they hope to attract the foreigners to the place. This also "coincides" with an informal English Corner -not very busy.
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A second visit and a second review:
As the original reviewer of this place, I feel somewhat obligated to any interested readers to keep them up-to-date with any changes in my review.
I went there on Thursday evening and ordered my usual meal: espresso macchiatto, pepperone pizza and glass of water. The restaurant upstairs was about half full. There were three or four waiter/waitresses on duty upstairs, and three of them have been there some time. As I caught their eye on entering my order was taken quickly. Another couple who came in a bit later and sat next to me, waited about 20 minutes before the man, being egged on by his partner, went and fetched one of the waitresses to come and take his order, and he had to search and find her! My pizza came within about four minutes of ordering it! When I began to eat it, I found that the crust was luke warm, the mozzarella cheese had congealed and was almost cold and the pepperone slices were dried and curled up. As I could see into the kitchen area, I noticed only one cook was on duty and was doing both hot and cold dishes. The pizza oven was not used all the time I was there. I concluded that either I was served a returned order of warmed up pizza, or more probably: a batch of pizza had been made and the one cook on duty was just warming them again in the microwave oven. My coffee arrived half way through the meal and that was not as hot as usual. Needless to say, the supervisor was not on duty upstairs. In a restaurant the final arbiter of food and drink served to a customer is the waiter/waitress. Mine should not have served me this dish, nor kept me waiting for my cofee
The music is still The Carpenters. Now there are many jumps in the CD!
I was not happy and I will not be returning there again; which is a shame as they do have a good product if they can maintain their original standard.
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I have been to the Xi'an Lu coffee shop several times. My overall impression from these visits:
The main problem with the operation is that it lacks consistency in all areas.
For example: the coffee is lovely - some of the best to be found in Dalian in a commerical coffee shop; BUT getting it to the table can take a long time, so it may not be hot when you begin to drink it. (Refer to note on service below).
The food is standard pizzas and pasta, plus sandwiches and other salads, ice cream and cakes. The hot dishes can be good, but occasionally are very disappointing: cold or badly prepared (batch cooked and reheated in the microwave?).
The music: the same Carpenters CD has been played now for a month and is "jumping" in the tracks!
The environment is variable from standard to very comfortable, as it depends on where you are sitting (and who you are with!). One drawback is that smoking is allowed in all areas; whereas in the sister shop in Victory Square, ther is a very small non-smoking area.
The big let-down is the service. It can be very poor particularly when the supervisory staff are not around. Many of the part-time evening staff do not have much motivation and little training in customer service techniques. I have now seen people walk out after waiting more than 15 minutes to have their order taken. Can such a business survive?
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