Cafe Benally

E-​Surf Café has been replaced by another Asian-​owned coffeehouse and it offers even less than it did before (when the offerings were very limited). Of course that could change since they just opened. The menu mentioned sandwiches — which they don’t have yet. I saw (1) a hot dog machine with no hot dogs, (2) a case of Chinese pastries, (3) cakes, (4) coffee, (5) milk tea. They have cake rolls but you have to buy the entire cake roll (you can’t just get a slice). They carry 4 flavors of Mitchell’s ice cream. Prices weren’t posted for the pastries.
* Vanilla cupcake ($ 2.35): maybe it wasn’t vanilla, it wasn’t a quality cupcake, the yellow cake was hard, dry and cold, and had a stale aftertaste
I was ready to use the free wi-​fi but when I tried to log on, I saw the following message: «Gateway authentication error, contact your service provider.» So frustrating!
I’m not sure why someone would open a coffeehouse and make so little effort (e.g., go to a bakery and pick up some items and mark up the price). The décor is still simple and it’s still cash only.