Render Coffee
Info
563 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA 02118
Hours: 8a-4p weekends, 7a-2p weekdays
(There’s also a second location in the Financial district, but I’ve never been there)
Review
Render Coffee’s orders work a little differently than at other places I’ve reviewed in the past, so this review might be graded a little unfairly relative to others. You can’t really just order an egg sammy - for one thing, the eggs are baked rather than fried or scrambled and for another you get a vegetable (or a meat, I guess) on your sandwich for free. Given that I wasn’t getting my regular order anyways, I also got the slightly fancier option and picked the baked egg with potatoes and rosemary, rather than the plain baked egg, as well as spinach.
Which is why this post might be a little biased - that’s a good sandwich! It’s just a little hard to tell now if it’s a good sandwich because it’s got a lot of good stuff in it, or if it’s a good sandwich because it’s a good sandwich because that’s what it is. On the plus side, though, that question is basically theoretical. You can’t get a cheaper version of the sandwich, so you just get a good sandwich.
Which does bring up one of my two complaints about Render. An egg sandwich and a latte comes to ~$12. That’s rather more than getting a latte and a cheap egg sammy at Farmer’s Horse or Pavement (though about the same as getting a sandwich worth having at Pavement). Render really isn’t the place to go for cheap breakfast food.
My second complaint is that, in my experience, coffee from Render is somewhat weak. It could be that’s a personal preference, or that I know nothing about coffee, or that a decent amount of ice has melted when I get to drinking the coffee. The coffee isn’t bad, but you are forewarned if strong coffee is what you’re looking for.