Brew Coffee Lab

Excellent drinks, food, and service. I love that they will put the drinks in a personal cup to cut down on waste. Good prices too! Today I noticed that the menu now includes breakfast and lunch sandwiches, very exciting! I tried the egg and cheese sandwich and it was delicious

Posting this because I specifically don't see any reviews going over the FOOD. Don't know if it's because they added it recently, or if people just don't get it. Either way, it's very good!

This spot is located within the train station lobby for the Des Plaines Metro line. The actual shop is cozy with a cute and quaint design, but the lobby can get very busy, noisy and rowdy. Not the greatest location unfortunately, and not a lot of room to sit. Not their fault, just pointing it out. You HAVE to take this to go.

Their breakfast menu is solid, my favorite is The Meg. The hot honey is NOT hot, but adds a very nice sweet flavor. Not too overpowering for me! Their lunch menu really shines. The Korean Chicken Cheesesteak is fantastic, and The Chos is incredible. All food I've tried here I would give a 5/5 besides their hash browns. Fell apart and not super crispy. Flavor was good, just not outstanding, so 3/5 for that.

The drink selection is vast, I've only tried 3. The Bikini Bottom and Mango Mojito were two of them, 5/5 and 4/5 respectively. Mango Mojito could've used a bit more mango flavor, but besides that very tasty! Bikini Bottom was fantastic, very sweet but expected from a drink with strawberry in it. Both gave me some jitters from the caffeine, but not any more than a coffee. Got both in Large.

Final drink I tried was their Thai Milk Tea Boba. Fantastic drink, 5/5 and definitely better than some other boba places I have been. Tasted close to the Thai Milk Tea I've gotten in the city, so that's a raving review.

The place is a bit pricey, but their food and drinks are quality and filling. I'd recommend it if you're close, it's convenient and you want something to fill you up. Great local place and hoping more people try the food as I can't even find pics of the food menu online!

It was my first time going to Brew Coffee Labs and I tried the Toasted Marshmallow Cold Foam Cold Brew and at first sip I did a little double take. I didn’t expect the flavors to work so well but it DID! Definitely worth checking out if you also have acid reflux or a sensitive tummy in general but need an extra umph to start your day.

Quick and yummy eats! Very professional setup. Accommodated my food sensitivities with a great recommendation of their herbal Honey Milk Ginger Tea. Love it! Had the white mocha Oreo croffle.. (croissant waffle) O M G! So good! Great spot that has limited parking and takes credit cards. Definite recommend. TIP: transit station with limited public seating. Great for takeout, no dine in.

Great unique selection of coffees. Tastes as good and some of them sound. Quick to order, and pick up to get back to the road. It’s located inside the train station. If you’re looking for a good local coffee place that sells a unique selection of coffee this is the place to go!

Okay so this shop is onside the train station. Super cute little place, loved the decor. We got 2 hot lattes (la vie rose and the maurice) and we got 2 iced lattes (caramel and turtle flavors). The iced lattes were good but the hot drinks are where it's at!! So much flavor. We also got 2 croffles (white chocolate oreo and Ferrero Roche), run! don't walk, to get these hot, delicious croffles! They were absolutely delectable!! Service was great too! Check them out.

One of the best local coffee shops in the suburbs! Ube latte & The Annie are so delicious. Drinks are reasonably priced.

The croffles (croissant/waffle) is so delicious! We tried the seasonal strawberry cheesecake croffle today. I also had the honeymilk latte and that was excellent too. Fast service and really delicious.
No tables or cafe seating as this is located in the Des Plaines Metra station. There are a few parking spots in front dedicated to 15 min and 60 min parking for the cafe.

It was a cute place service was great the only thing was the bathrooms were disgusting but it is in a train station so who knows if it’s the coffee shops responsibility other than that I love my drink…

Just realized my photos were in an upload pending state so I'm updating my review from Sat.06.11.22:
So glad Brew Lounge is alive, although in a different location yet similar vibe, and under a different alias. Grabbed a double shot espresso in this review, pictured here. Truth be told, I prefer this location a bit better. Will be back for sure.

Food is delicious, coffee is amazing and unique flavours. I was afraid to try this pistachio chai latte but it’s so good !

My husband and I stopped in this morning on the way home to Wisconsin and when I say this place is AMAZING! Wait time was not long at all. We ordered the iced ube latte, raspberry lemonade, and two of the Meg sandwiches. The food and drinks was soo good- can’t wait until we’re back in town.

Don’t let the outside fool you- they are in the lab literally with this menu !

The coffee and menu selection is amazing, not really a sit-down place tho. Great if you're getting coffee to-go.

The apple pie latte was awesome.

An interesting coffee shop inside a train stop. Of course I had to try all of their cookies with the mango being my favorite. Espresso was good also. Each cookie was $4 each and I've spent under $15 altogether. Barista was sweet to have me. A cozy place to come to on a cold morning!

Convenient parking at the train station. They have a sign that tells you to let them know if you have a time constraint (because you’re waiting for the train) so they can accommodate you as best they can.

They know their menu! Our party has allergies to consider, and so the guy was helpful in making drink choices.

Because they hadn’t tried the el vien rose and white mocha drink, they couldn’t tell me offhand how sweet it was. But! they offered to adjust the sweetness for me. I ordered 1/4 sweetness, and it was great!

We ordered the ube latte, chocolate churro latte, java chip frappuccino, and el vien….and the croffles. UBE! The drinks and croissant waffles were fantastic. Couldn’t figure out how to make myself thirsty enough to order milk tea, too, so didn’t get to order that.

There were several boba and jelly choices!

Stopped by this little gem when we were visiting from Michigan & oh my goodness, we were BLOWN away! Lab is a good name for them because they have it down to a science!! Delicious stuff here, everything my family ordered I got to try and it was great. I’m in a boba craze & got the brown sugar boba with a shot of espresso, my only tiny critique is the the boba could be cooked a bit longer. Other than that, it was perfect

Very good espresso - they pull a mean shot here. That is where it all starts. But then they do have a full list of coffee drinks for the variety minded. It is inside the Metra train station. But nothing like stereotypical train or plane coffee. This is good!

Decided to try a new coffee shop with my friend and right as we walked in we loved the atmosphere. So cute and aesthetic:) great customer service, amazing coffee and food too! Definitely recommend!

This place has some of the BEST drinks ever. The workers here are so nice and the boba is so yummy. They have so many good drink options i love this place. Thank you to the worker Maribelle for such amazing service. She was so kind and patient!! Amazing drinks 10/10 I will be coming agian

Took me a bit to find, since I didn’t realize it was inside the Metra station, but I’m glad I found it. Had the ube latte and ube coffee and both were delicious. I definitely want to come back for the boba, as I’m obsessed with anything ube flavored.