Grindcore House!
Grindcore House is Philly’s first all vegan coffeeshop, located in South Philly. We visited yesterday to check it out, even though they just opened very recently and have only limited hours for the time being. Vegan pastry was beckoning!
Grindcore is located at 1515 S. 4th St. The interior is really nice- beautiful old pressed metal ceiling. There was an art show of Philly-themed prints hanging in the back room.
We got iced coffees and two pastries to go. Most coffeeshops have some sort of non-dairy milk available these days, but it was awesome to have a choice of several- soy milk, soy creamer, almond milk, and rice milk! I went for soy creamer, which I’ve never seen at a coffeeshop before.
Most of their pastries come from Vegan Treats in Bethlehem, which are always awesome. We had a hard time choosing, but settled on some sort of delicious-looking peanut butter/chocolate thingys, which turned out to be an item that Vegan Treats makes especially for Grindcore House.
They may not be open fulltime yet, but they’ve already got dessert boxes with their logo on them! Awesome metal-tree roots!
These pastries were SO GOOD! First of all, I thought the little cup things were paper, and it was just a regular cupcake with lots of stuff on top, but the cups are actually chocolate. Inside the cups are peanut butter mousse, topped with chocolate cake, topped with some sort of magical peanut butter chunks and more chocolate. Yumyumyum!
I only wish Grindcore House was closer to where I live! But I’ll definitely be going back again. Rock on, vegan coffee house!
Bonus picture- some of the best street art I’ve ever seen in Philly! I love how the shape matches the mail box perfectly.
