I was recently at Cartel Coffee Lab and ordered myself a small-size AeroPress Coffee. To my surprise, this small \"kiddy\" size coffee set me back by $3. As I started consuming the AeroPress famous Cartel Coffee, I began to wonder why does Cartel Coffee charge $3 for a coffee, when the often ridiculed and the supposedly overpriced chain called Starbucks offers the same size coffee for $1.75? \n\nAnd my AeroPress Cartel coffee wasn't itself that great; I mean I've had coffee of different roasts before, and I'm no coffee connoisseur, but Cartel coffee felt very watery and very plain. It was just like the pedestrian coffee I have sometimes at work.\n\nThis place charges $3 for a coffee because Coffee Cartel thinks it's cool; it feels you're obliged to pay for its super-cool chilled out austere interior; it feels you need to pay up for all the nonsensical writing that's scribbled over its walls; moreover it feels you need to experience the pathetic service it that prides itself on.  What a pity!  Need a good coffee, I heard McDonalds is good these days. \n\n1. Overpriced. \n2. Pathetic Service. \n3. Very limited menu.