Groundswell is the closest coffee shop to Uğur Abi's house. For me, it is Needmore of St. Paul (yes, this is my second visit only, but still, the same vibes!). In the summer, I did not realize how big they were actually. After exploring all of their corners, my ambiance score definitely 2/2. 

I love big windows as much as I love coffee shops, hopeless romantic is talking! When you combine them with Christmas lights, what can I say? I have to romanticize writing fuzzy & TF-IDF string-matching code in Python... 

In terms of coffee taste, I remember last time when I had an iced latte, I was not impressed. It was just a regular latte; however, today's Americano hit me. I believe there is a perfect texture for Americano, Groundswell's Americano had that texture. Sometimes, even though I got two shots of espresso I cannot feel that texture (e.g. Soma Coffee, the local coffee shop in Bloomington). Groundswell achieved that texture with one shot since I already had Aeropress in the morning. They did not ask me about the roast, it was according to my taste, though. I do not know if should I break the point. I like talking about notes of coffee! So, for the coffee, I would say 2.75/3 because of the lack of roasts. 

For the staff part, it was nice to get your coffee to your table, and they were helpful. I received respect for my whatever left least order strategy for my pastry choice! (1/1 for staff). 

For pricing, I will go with 0.75/1 because there is no medium-size option. I am always a large coffee girl, but thinking about my readers!