The Coffee Mill

I cannot say enough nice things about The Coffee Mill in Rehoboth Beach. My family and I are visiting for a long weekend in January, but I have a 4+ hour training that I had to complete thru Zoom. I needed somewhere to work for a few hours and The Coffee Mill came highly rated. When I arrived, I made sure it wouldn’t be a problem if I stayed to work for a few hours. I ordered the biggest coffee I could handle and set myself up work.

A little while later, the owner came in and was making conversation with everyone who was there. Clearly there were a few locals and a few out-of-towners that the owner remembered from previous visits. After saying hello he noticed I was working and immediately offered up his other business, the Mill Creamery, across the walkway as a quiet place to work. He says he doesn’t staff the creamery in the winter, but he keeps the place open so that people who wanna work or study can have somewhere quiet to do their thing.

How thoughtful and community oriented is that?! I promptly moved across to the new to the creamery and set myself up for a the day. I ordered my lunch, which was delicious (avocado toast with all the fixings) and they offered to bring it over to me so I could keep doing my thing.

Everyone was so helpful and thoughtful. It’s so cool to still find some of these small business coffee shops where the owner really cares and the staff do a great job. Oh yeah and the coffee was great too!

Highly recommend! We gotta support the local businesses if we want to keep them around!

Lovely little coffee shop with many different options for coffee beans, breakfast, pastries, donuts, cake, açaí, smoothies and much more! Everyone was so friendly and the shop smells amazing with all the fresh beans and treats. Highly recommend!

It’s unfortunate to write a bad review about a place I absolutely could not wait to go visit. I have to write a bad review due to the owner! I came here to have breakfast and I was looking forward to it as part of my Rehoboth beach visit ritual. I was hit with a wave of rudeness by the owner. First he was being rude to a gentleman standing next to me screaming at him which I found troubling. He kept saying that he was waiting for his staff that was taking care of me to hurry up because he was taking the longest 20 minute order, he said that 3x, on the 3rd time I got annoyed because not only was he berating his staff but making me feel rushed to make my order. So I said, it has not been that long and he went off telling me that I don’t know what I’m taking about, that I would if I owned a business among other things. Super rude, then I said I would never set foot in his establishment again and he said “good I don’t ever want to see you in here again!” I just said wow and he mocked me and mumbled something about “you people” I think he was racist. I found him really ridiculous and obnoxious. Then as I waited for my food I observed him go to the baked goods area grab a muffin, drop one on the floor then the girl working back there picked it up and put it right back in the fridge after it had fallen on the floor. Then My mother-in-law went In to take a picture of him for my review so that you are all warned about the owner, he saw her and came outside to give me a very strategic and calculated apology. It was not sincere at all. I felt worse about the apology after I found out he did it because he probably knew we would write a review since we took a photo! I will never go back here again! Don’t waist your money on over priced food for a racist owner who treats his staff and customers badly!