Dunn Bros Coffee

TERRIBLE COFFEE, mediocre service and pitiful wifi — have never had a great experience

I’ve been to this specific location multiple times and I can honestly say I have never had an enjoyable experience. The staff are all so rude and not at all helpful. They do however make your beverage promptly. There is a poor selection of bakery items/​snacks and what they do have can be purchased at a lower price at the gas station down the street.

The lady recommend me to try the banana bread that happened to be amazing. I was sold into buying it and it turned out that the banana bread was hard and burnt. I don’t understand why would they sell burnt banana bread.

Not too many years ago this Dunn Bros would have received one star from me. Now wiping the slate clean after I refused to patronize for two years this location is greatly improved. Part of the reason for service inconsistencies is rapid turn over of Baristas in any restaurant and especially a coffee establishment this close to the U of M.
Atmosphere: True coffee sipping urban almost pretentious (in a good way-​you need some pretense) with scattered art or even more effective grainy black and white photographs. Long and short tables. Roasting coffee aroma. Extremely diverse eclectic clientele makes for some interesting people watching but I wouldn’t stare at anyone for more than two seconds. Think of a Jack Kerouac novel, male pony tales, plenty of tattoos, intellectual, pseudo-​intellectual, straight laced, über-​leftist, right-​leaning urban cowboy. well you get the idea.
Food: Nice selection of items which is more than just pastries. Sandwiches and light salads including macaroni and lunch items. Always fresh.
Drinks: There is a difference in one Dunn Bros from another. This location seems to do a great job with the Shaken Tea drinks. I can’t rate other drinks as about all I ever have is Dark Roast brews and ice tea drinks. Freshness is a trademark at this location as with other Dunn Bros.

Great café for doing some (home)work. Plenty of tables, plenty of space. Plenty of outlets!
Music is perfect volume so you can actually hear yourself think, or enjoy the tune of you’re tired of thinking.
Coffee is on point, standard Dunn Bros menu.
Staff have always gotten my order right, and are very professional. They might not give you that fake smile/​greeting that most employees give you, but you can rest assured your coffee will be good. I appreciate that.
Although they have no parking lot of their own, there is plenty of street parking in every direction.
Buy something and you can use the wifi. Easy enough.

Place is great. Only complaint is that they asked us to leave right when the closing time of 6 pm. If you’re going to close that early, at least let paying customers linger a bit!

Located on the street corner just blocks from my new home, I had to experience the local coffee shop and this Dunn Bros Coffee is ‘it’. The location is very large with seating galore but due to the fact it’s in ‘college alley’ it has been packed every time I’ve visited. Their prices and menu are the standard Dunn Bros options and their staff are quick and attentive. Usually you will pass a gaggle of college people waiting for the bus just outside the door and a few homeless sprinkled in as well to haggle you for loose change. Once you get inside the door however, you’ll find a clean and crowded coffee shop with hipster music playing and a selection of food, coffee accessories and a good option to people watch.
Many of the reviews have mentioned that staff are not friendly, I too have experienced this but I find it’s usually because they are trying to be efficient. They won’t strike up a conversation or give you 100% of their attention even during your order but they do get the order correct and up fast. Efficient or friendly. Perhaps they just cannot multi-​task?

I love Dunn Bros. coffee, but I haven’t been pleased with location. Like other reviewers have said, the staff, overall, are not friendly. There are a couple really sweet workers (I frequent this place) but mostly I’m not impressed. Not cool to hear all their gossip either while trying to get work done. I’ve been driving to other places rather than walking to this place just a couple blocks away because there are much better places to go.
Oh and did I mention my back aches after I study there? Uncomfortable chairs. Only one bathroom for the very large location and everyone seems to need to use it at the same time whenever I’m there. Bummed I don’t like this place more.
I do like Dunn bros as a whole, so I can’t give them less than 3 stars.

Decent location and comfortable atmosphere.
The rating is downgraded simply because the Baristas are minimally friendly which is a huge disservice to this location. I also wouldn’t order anything that requires a decent steaming — they don’t seem to know how to gauge temperature (watch out tongues!) and could use a crash course on how to get a decent texture out of their milk. I thought it might have been just one barista’s bad technique but it seems to run in the crew.

Quite a few Dunn Bros locations have that cheesy chain feel to them and this one definitely offers a better ambiance to go with their coffee. It’s also tucked away in quiet Marcey-​Holmes just around the corner from the stone arch bridge and the end of St Anthony Main. The clientele leans towards UM students, but thankfully it’s far enough away that the drunk reveling variety is weeded out. The pastry selection here seems to be unique to this location: I was happy with an almond cream wafer sandwich, but not so much with the long jon which had been suffered from refrigeration too close to freezing and you can imagine the havoc that wrought on the dough and ganache: tough dough and goopy topping. Aside from that misstep this is one of the best Dunn Bros out there.

Love the African beans. I get Rwanda when I have the opportunity.

Pros: Study atmosphere — it’s spacious, lots of outlets for laptoppers and it seems set up for such activities.
Cons: Staff could probably be friendlier, they at times have seemed more into each other than serving coffee and I’ve gotten the eye roll before when I’m so not a person that deserves an eye roll.
Possible Pro/​Con: the wifi can be shotty, which means if you have actual books to read and a notebook it’s probably a good thing to take you away from the crack of facebook and allow you to be with your book and not connected (unless you have a fancy phone).

I love this Dunn Bros location. I used to live a few blocks away from here and, even though my apartment had ample study space, it was nice to come down to Dunn and sprawl out a bit.
This is a quieter Dunn and it seems to be custom-​made for the study-​set. The front of the shop is where you find people reading the paper or conversing in small groups. The back is where you find study groups (ample table space!) and students with their head in books and drafting out papers. The outside has a few sidewalk-​based patio tables when the weather is nice.
I don’t know how I rate something based on the feeling I get here, but this Dunn is just super-​chill, and that’s really nice. It’s not the scene for the hip crowd that wants to be seen studying, but it’s a place where you can actually dig in and get some work done.

Took the teen I mentor to the Minneapolis Xpo at the Soap Factory. Quick service, friendly staff, and fuel for the teen to get excited about all the comic books he hasn’t read yet. So happy this Dunn’s is near the Soap Factory. I’ll def. be returning there. :)

I come to this location at least once a week because it’s so close to the U of M and it’s not as busy (lots of open seating next to outlets) as the Starbucks, Expresso Expose, Tea Garden, or Caribou on East Campus. But I’d have to say lately this location has been falling off as my favorite coffee shop to go to study.
I don’t mind when there’s a bunch of people around, for I can study anywhere, but this Dunn Bros doesn’t get too busy (for you people who need a quiet place to study). For myself, it drives me insane when coffee shops/​libraries don’t have good wifi connection, and for the past three or four times I have been here within the past couple of weeks, the wifi keeps going on and off. There was even a day where my laptop, and my friend’s couldn’t even connect at all (our laptops said the access point needed to be unplugged, plugged back in, and wait for lights on router to start up again), so we had to move to a different study location. It’s hard to do anything now a days without internet access, so I was disappointed.
I loved coming here the first couple of months because:
1) it had their own parking lot, unlike many of the other coffee shops around the U of M where parking is metered or the Caribou where there’s never a parking spot b/​c it’s shared with surrounding businesses.
2) always an open table near an open outlet
3) good wifi connection
4) good brewed coffee!
(these are not in any order for they ALL play a part in which coffee shop I go to study/​work)
I’ll give this location another try to see if my luck just has been bad for coming on days the wifi is off, but as of right now I think I’m going to have to start searching for another study spot.)=

I’m embarrassed to admit that I waited until my senior year to study here at the University Dunn Bros. I had been stuck in a Dinkytown coffee shop rut, and I needed a break!
This is one of those ideal study spots. Not so crowded that you can’t find a table, but there are enough seats occupied to not make you feel so alone in the world while you miserably study for midterms. The staff is super friendly and helpful! Even though I am a regular coffee shop patron, I never seem to know what I want, and the staff was understanding and made some great suggestions, which I always appreciate!
There are plenty of outlets, free wireless, and they have absurdly good music playing in the background. However, it is at a decently low level so that it is not breaking my concentration, and I can easily hide it with headphones. But, admittedly, it is nice to take a study break and sing along to a few classic jams.
I definitely recommend this place to get some work done, or hang out with friends. They are open until 11pm on Sunday through Thursday, so you can get work done (or Unilocal) until late.
Also, sometimes it is tough to find street parking, but I usually find some within the block!

It would be a disservice not to review Dunn Bros. at 6^th & University, being the frequent and happy customer that I am.
Dunn Bros. is my jam as far as studying spots goes. It doesn’t hurt that I live two blocks away, but still! It’s rarely as crowded and loud as some other places on/​near campus (ahem.Purple Onion), the employees are always friendly, and they have a mean Brazil roast.
The wifi’s not the best (although it has been a little better lately — they have a password now) and the food selection could use some revamping, but then again, I wouldn’t want to be tempted…

Your wifi sucks. Good location, nice setup, completely unreliable wifi. You are close to the U, you have lots of people using laptops. Figure it out!

Nice big coffeeshop with lots of character except from the staff. I enjoy camping out here but some smiles would do a world of good! Great ice cremas go without saying.

As much as I love Dunn Bros, this one falls flat.
The staff is pretty rigid and don’t ever want to talk to me. I feel like being friendly is a key component to working at a coffee shop.
Second, outlets for power are very hard to find. Not that it matters. The Internet here is so terrible. My guess is all the people in the apartment building connected to it are also signing on. Even on slow days, you’ll be stuck staring at a frozen loading bar in your browser.
That being said. There is lots of seating. Big windows and clean private bathrooms.