Moka

Reviews

• Michaela R.

  star star star star star 22 June 2026

  A very pleasant café selling great milk and fruit shakes with very obliging service :)
  
  The garden is in a street - I don´t like that very much - but in this case it didn´t matter as we didn´t eat. But the portions looked really great. Since the place was completely full, their cooking can´t be bad :D
  
  Velmi příjemná kavárna se skvělými mléčnými a ovocnými koktejly a velmi příjemnou obsluhou :)
  
  Zahrádka je sice do ulice - já to nemám moc ráda - ale vůbec to nevadí. Jídlo jsme si nedávali, ale ty porce vypadali opravdu luxusně. Vzhledem k tomu, že bylo úplně plno, nevaří asi špatně :D

• Dave C.

  star star star star_border star_border 20 June 2026

  This is a nice enough place but I found it disappointing. It clearly has its fans from the other reviews here, but perhaps it succeeds due to lack of competition in the centre of the city. Yes, there's Costa and Starbucks but they're pretty much of a muchness with Moka quality and service wise.
  
  What Preston lacks is a first class independent third wave coffee shop/diner, where quality of product and service is genuinely high. Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Leeds, York, Bath, Birmingham, London, and the rest have several. Preston seems to have zero and so there's no incentive for shops like Moka to be exceptional. This is a shop that's cruising in my view.
  
  I specifically detoured to check out Moka. It is part wannabe brand and part up market tea shop in style. I ordered a flat white which was pretty horrible: wrong size, way too hot, bitter as a result, with no depth of flavour at all. I struggled to finish it. This is a training issue, a machine cleanliness issue and a bean quality issue.
  
  The 'barista' banged out the old coffee puck, didn't clean the portafilter, ground new coffee into it (what looked like a single rather than flat white double shot), left the portafilter on the side while he did something else, letting it cool, then returned. The watery shot told me the machine/grinder wasn't calibrated properly and nor was the barista. There is no reason to churn out this standard other than laziness and lack of training. I can get this kind of coffee anywhere. Yuk!
  
  I next ordered a strawberry cheesecake. I watched it being sliced. OK, so don't wipe your hands down your trousers first to dry them. Don't then handle the slice with your fingers leaving a print. And when you slice don't leave a 1cm nub in one corner. Cut it neatly. So a potentially cross contaminated slice, ill cut with a finger mark, is £3.95. The mango squeezable out of a bottle stuff I dunno what that was about ... with strawberry?
  
  Service was Ok. Polite enough. It was all a bit haphazard tho and seemed over staffed when all that's happening is cake, tea, coffee out front. There did seem to be a kitchen out back and I saw a few things come out looking par for the course. Nothing too exciting. I couldn't check the menu for more info as it was snatched from the table as soon as I said I didn't want food. Why do that? Someone will only go back and replace it when I leave!
  
  So, this is an average place for people who want average at a tad above average prices in a convenient location near the station. Preston will do better at some stage hopefully.

• Emaar K.

  star star star star star 17 June 2026

  Great food. Just visited Preston and came here to see how's the food, it's good. Great coffee and amazing fish and chips.

• Qype User (jay-je…)

  star star star star star 7 June 2026

  Great choice of food, both at breakfast and during the day. The night menu is also well worth trying and the staff have always been friendly.
  Well worth a try for breakfast, lunch and at night!

• Qype User (Rockba…)

  star star star star star 28 May 2026

  Not quite your average greasy spoon by any stretch of the imagination. Set over two floors with a varied menu this is a very nice place to grab a bite to eat or a quick brew whilst shopping in Preston City Centre.
  
  The menu is pricy in preston terms so dont come here if on a budget.