The Coffee Flight at Toasted — Four Drinks, One Order

If you walk into a cafe and can never decide what to order, the Coffee Flight at Toasted in Montrose was made for you. Four specialty drinks, served side-by-side, $17. It's the most efficient way to learn a cafe's coffee program in 20 minutes — and it doubles as a quietly clever date order, since you and the table you're sharing it with end up tasting the same eight things and arguing about which is best.

What's in the Standard Coffee Flight?

The Coffee Flight ($17) is four 4 oz pours plus four shots of espresso. The default lineup is fixed, so you know what you are getting:

• Cold brew — steeped twenty-four hours, low acid, the cleanest thing on the list.
• Vanilla latte — Hairbender double, steamed milk, one of our eleven house-made syrups.
• Mocha latte — the same base with chocolate, the sweetest pour in the four.
• Caramel macchiato — espresso over milk with caramel, layered rather than stirred.

Swaps are welcome. Ask and the bar will trade any of the four for something else — Armenian coffee, a straight mocha, another cold brew, any latte flavour you like. Armenian coffee is not in the default four, but it is one of the most common substitutions people ask for, and nobody will blink.

How to Drink It (the Order Matters)

Coffee flights are like wine flights — drink them in the wrong order and you can't taste anything past the strongest pour. The general rule: least sweet to sweetest. For the default four, that means:

1. Cold brew first. No sugar, no milk, low acid. You want this while your palate is at zero.
2. Vanilla latte second. Milk smooths everything out and the vanilla is the gentlest of our syrups.
3. Caramel macchiato third. Layered, so the first sip is milk and the last is caramel.
4. Mocha latte last. Chocolate coats the palate — anything after it tastes of chocolate too.

The four espresso shots come alongside. Add them to whichever pour you want stronger, or drink one straight between cups to reset.

Sip, don't chug. The flight is meant to last 20–30 minutes. If you're sharing with someone, take half-sips so both of you can get through all four.

The Other Flights on the Menu

Coffee isn't the only flight at Toasted. The full Flights menu has four options, all $17:

• Coffee Flight — the default; covered above
• Rosewater Flight — four ways with rosewater: Roseade, a classic rosewater latte, rose iced tea, and a rosewater latte with espresso. Gentler on the palate than the coffee four.
• Seasonal Flight — whatever the bar is pouring this season, four 4 oz pours that change through the year. Ask what is on today.
• Lemonade Flight — four 4 oz pours of our house-made lemonade. Flavours change, so ask what is going. The one to order when the table does not want coffee.

If you're bringing a group of four, get one of each flight. That's sixteen small pours covering Toasted's entire drink program. About $68 for the table, ~30 minutes of tasting, and everybody learns something.

What to Pair With It

A flight on its own is a lot of caffeine on an empty stomach. Pair it with something solid:

• If you want savory: a Breakfast Caprese sandwich ($14.95) or Avocado Toast ($15.95). Both are light enough to not compete with the coffee.
• If you want sweet: a Petite Saffron & Rose Toast Tower ($16.50). Swap one pour of the flight for Armenian coffee and drink it against the tower — Persian aromatic notes echoing each other. This is the move.
• If you're working through it slowly: a Simply Toasted plate ($12.95) — yogurt, fruit, granola, almond butter. Refills your blood sugar so the caffeine doesn't hit too hard.

Why a Flight Beats Ordering One Drink

You can't describe a coffee program by ordering one cup. A flight is the only way to actually understand a cafe.

Most cafes hide their best work behind drinks people don't order. The barista's favorite latte, the syrup that took six tries to perfect, the seasonal experiment that's only on the menu for two weeks — you don't hit any of these by ordering a regular cappuccino. A flight forces the cafe to put their range on a single tray and ask you to taste it.

Toasted's flight does this honestly. The four pours are not random — they're curated to show what the bar can do across hot, iced, traditional, and experimental. After one flight you'll have a clear sense of what to come back for.

Practical Notes

• Caffeine load: The four small pours add up to roughly 1.5 regular drinks worth of caffeine. Not extreme, but plan accordingly.
• Calorie estimate: ~130 cal for the standard Coffee Flight, depending on milk choices.
• Customizable: Tell the barista if you want a specific drink swapped in or out. They're flexible.
• Best time to order: Mid-morning, around 10 AM. The bar is fully dialed in by then and the cafe is at a calm pace.
• Dine-in for the experience. You can take the flight to-go but the four cups don't travel as well as a single drink.

Order it on your next visit. It's the order that turns a one-time drop-in into a regular.