For the longest time, I thought this place was a frozen yogurt place (don't ask me why). So, when my boyfriend told me that we were going to get dinner here with some friends, I was confused. There seems to be two areas: a bar area and a small area for seated meals. The first time I was here, I got the anthology pizza, which was pretty good, but pricey. The second time I was here, I went for the recommended Hot for Teacher panini. It was pretty good, and the dipping sauce (some kind of pesto mayo) it came with was delicious. Some of our friends started dipping their food in it as well!
The burgers also look really good. There is live music in the bar area, and it can get pretty loud, so don't expect to hear your friends talking. However, the food is a bit pricey (comparable to NYC prices), but overall delicious. I would come here again.
I'm not 100% sure what the name of this place means? Â I thought it might be an Asian soup bar, but it's not. Â It's a great place for lunch with reasonable prices. Â The atmosphere is relaxed and the staff seemed friendly. Â I ordered the Ty Cobb Salad which barely had any lettuce (call me crazy for expecting more). Â There was a ton of bacon, cheese, olives, etc. Â I'll definitely be back to Lovin' Cup to explore their creative menu.
Review Source:I really had high hopes for Lovin' Cup - and I have waited a while to let my experience sort of sink in before writing my review.. but I still feel disappointed by my experience. Â Maybe it was the time of day? Â Maybe the day of the week? Â
I don't know - I just didn't feel this place.
My friends and I stopped on a Wednesday evening for dinner. Â We arrived around 5 and got a booth near the back. Â Seating was fine for five of us. Â Three of us arrived around the same time and two were a little late, and I felt like our server wasn't thrilled with that - not that the place was busy anyways.
It was too early for live music, and the place just seemed lifeless. Â I was hoping for a little bit more enthusiasm or something.
The drink I ordered was mediocre.
The food was mediocre.
The service was mediocre.
Especially for the price.
I SO wanted to like it here especially since so many others have had great experiences. Â I'm sure I'll try it again, but maybe just for a coffee date and live music.
Had an excellent lunch here today. The selection of food is enough to want to try numerous items. The atmosphere is very intriguing. I enjoyed it all very much. I will certainly be back!
Update. Came back the following day after my first visit. I had the Bayou burger, minus some of the extras I'm not a fan of. It was excellent. Possibly the best burger I have eaten. The bartenders were very welcoming as they were aware i am new to the are. They concocted me a drink that isn't on the menu as a welcome drink. It was great, i had another. Highly recommend going here. One of my favorites so far.
Lovin' Cup is a great place to go with a few friends even on a week night for some live entertainment, good food, and good selection of drinks. Â Pizza, sandwiches, soups, salads, and panini's. Â There could be a little more seating. Â I love the food, it's fresh and delicious. Â Their menu items have crazy/cute names, which makes the dining experience interesting and fun as well. Â They have live music, contests, and comedians weekly. Â I only had one experience where we waited a VERY long time for a waitress to come over after we sat down, and it was NOT busy. But overall, It's a good pick.
Review Source:I've only had ONE less than stellar experience @ the Cup so I'm giving them 4 stars, not 5. A great place to grab a bite to eat, catch some stellar music & gab with your pals. I've gotten to know the servers/bartenders & they all treat me like a long-lost pal. Very welcoming!
It is well worth the trip out here to catch a show... especially the Bop Arts shows. Tom Kohn chose Lovin' Cup as the venue for his shows after Stern Properties pushed the Bop Shop out of the Village Gate. So far I've seen Bill Kirchen, Wreckeless Eric & Amy Rigby, Rocket From the Tombs, Hugh Cornwell and others too numerous to mention. Local artists like Anonymous Willpower, Infrared Radiation Orchestra, the Absolutes, Kinloch Nelson, The Driftwood Sailors, My Plastic Sun & Mikela Davis. Just phenomenal. Great house sound system!
Check it out!
I came here several times and I still have mixed reviews about this place. Sometimes, the service can be a bit slow: the waitress took forever to get back to us with the check and forgot things here and there. Food wise, Lovin' Cup does offer delicious meals at good prices. I love how they also have a lot of events; whether it is open mic or karaoke, Lovin Cup has a fun, hip, and relaxing ambiance to it.
Review Source:I have to stop coming here. Every time it gets worse and worse.
Actually, that's not true.
It reached rock bottom at a beer tasting in September. Apparently, it was the owner's birthday. That's cool for them. What's not cool is making it a birthday party at their regular beer tasting and charging me $18 to go. I'm talking relatives and friends making toasts. There wasn't even a brewery there... they just gave samples of what was on tap... and had people read things they printed off the internet.
"This is... um.... an India Pale Ale- OH! That's what IPA stands for! I haven't ever tried this but it's not bad! Enjoy!"
and then later his young nephew was like "I love you uncle!" on the microphone... it was incredibly awkward (not to mention lame) for our party of 14.
Then, last night... they had a holiday beer tasting. Sounds awesome! 13 beers! We got there at 7pm- they were sold out. We asked to be put on the waiting list. SURE! They said. I checked back in at 8:05 (it started at 8)... ol' girl said she'd find us if there were spots!
8:40pm comes around- they announce there are 2 tickets left and whoever gets to the table first gets them.
Thanks a lot, Lovin' Cup.
Fool me once, shame on me... fool me twice.. shame on me.
This dimly lit bistro indulges all the senses. Local talent takes the stage nearly every night to perform to a mixing-pot of people amped up on wickedly strong esspresso or wine and beer. I love the ever-changing local artwork that decorates the earth-tone walls.
The staff here rocks, and sometimes literally (Willie plays a mean Keytar).
Although it's part of the RIT campus the place doesn't often swarm with college students, but instead brings in all walks of life. I've met musicians, teachers, and lawyers there all in the same night.
If you check out this place (which you should), I recommend not getting the esspresso past 9pm - it will keep you up until 7 in the morning! - but I do recomend trying Kind, the 3 Head Brewing Company beer on tap. It's the best new local frothy goodness - trust me.
I moved away from the Rochester area over a year ago. I can list the number of things I miss about it on my fingers, and the Lovin' Cup is first on that list. I haven't found a single place near my new home to match either the fun, funky ambiance or the equally fun and funky food they serve here. It was easily my favorite place to get a bite when I had a little time and not very much money. Whenever I had a visitor from outside the area, I always insisted we stop here at least once before they went home - it was worth the visit just to see the wine racks behind the bar.
One thing I don't get is why a lot of reviewers seem to be down on the Anthology Pizza. Seriously? When you order a pizza that uses fig jam in place of tomato sauce, you can't expect it to NOT be sweet. It was my favorite thing on the menu, and something I still crave from eight hundred miles away.
While our waitress was very friendly, upbeat, etc., the food was mediocre at best. Â I ordered the Anthology pizza - fig jam, apples, caramelized onions and bleu cheese. Â The problem was the onions were merely steamed - not caramelized at all. Â They were still purple! Â So there was no sweetness coming from the onion, instead, raw onioin-y taste which overpowered everything on the pizza (and the crust was NOT good - quite tasteless and on the thick side - blech). Â So our waitress was kind enough to take it back, and off the bill. Â So I asked her for the Deep Purple - an eggplant parmesan panini with provelone. Â And that is all it was. Â Tasteless bread, thin, sad slices of eggplant which tasted nothing like eggplant and only of a fryer and some cheese. Â No fresh basil, no tomato, not even salt and pepper! Â It was just really boring and sad. Â A sad sandwich. Â Too bad. Â I won't be returning. Â I don't get the hype.
Review Source:A truly unique and fun bar/coffee shop/live music venue in Rochester. First off, Leslie and Erik (owners/managers) are ingenious marketers with a grueling work ethic. So you've got that. But add in an awe-inspiring iron wine rack, beautiful bar with craft beer, great food, sweet events and live music - there's really something for everyone. Too frequently, places like Lovin Cup that try to do everything at once aren't successful. Not in this case. This is the best coffee shop-bar fusion in Rochester, hands down no contest! Check it out. Its not exactly super budget friendly but the food and drink are good. Get the anthologie pizza!!!
Review Source:What's not to love about Lovin' Cup? Their ambiance is young and trendy, they almost always have live music or a fun event happening, the food is plentiful and the prices are reasonable. Â Being a student at RIT, I have eaten here for my fair share and taken many other people there as well. Â I love that the names of the menu items are all song titles and that you get so much food, especially with the salads! Â All the food I've had there is tasty, flavorful and well prepared. Â The wine list is also diverse enough to offer a good selection of pairings for your meal, but should you want a mixed drink, the bartenders are also well trained and I've never been disappointed in my countless visits.
This place is also very diverse. Â They have a free wine tasting every first Wednesday of the month which is always awesome, but they also have karaoke, and jazz nights as well. Overall, it's a great place to meet friends for a drink, bring a business client for lunch or unwind to some live music with dinner.
A favorite restaurant of mine in Rochester! I went to RIT, so I frequently went to Lovin' Cup to get my most favorite sandwich - "Hot for my Teacher"! It is nice place to hang out with family & friends but it can get packed fast! I recommend this restaurant to all who visit Park Point @ RIT.
Review Source:Great Coffee, pizza, sandwhiches. Great atmosphere! I have gone a few times when there are performances. 80's night was a blast! The clientele can range from college students and young professionals to family groups. Â Only negative was that once we showed up to have dinner and did not know that they were going to have a band 2 hours later, and we were still charged an entry fee.. Next time we will check to see if they are having any entertainment before heading there for dinner.
Review Source:Once in a great while, a restaurant prepares a single dish, which despite numerous sub-par menu offerings, single-handedly propels that establishment to greatness. Everything else (the atmosphere, the service, the bathrooms, etc.) fades into the distance and what remains is one, isolated memory that shapes your whole perception of your dining experience.
One such divine dish is a regular menu item at Lovin Cup, located within RIT's Park Point development. The appetizer, which is now among my Top 5 all time favorite dishes in Rochester, is a brilliant combination of a Western New York favorite and a classic southern comfort food. To my knowledge, there is no where else in Rochester that you can get this dish and once you try it, you'll be thinking about it for days.
What is it?
DEEP FRIED PORK (yes, pork!) WINGS
Aptly named "Pigs on the Wing," these culinary gems combine the convenience and noshability of classic Buffalo wings with the utter decadence and lip-smacking fattiness of pork ribs. While there were four different sauces to choose from, my purist palate selected the traditional buffalo sauce.
To describe this dish as the perfect bar food is a gross understatement of Pigs on the Wing's greatness. To describe them as possibly the worst food in history for your heart is probably accurate. No one in their right mind would make this dish in their own home, let alone a restaurant, and that's what makes it special.
The exterior has the same crispness that you would get from the skin of a perfectly fried chicken wing. The interior, however, melts in your mouth the way a slow-cooked, fall-off-the-bone rib does as soon as it touches your tongue, coating your entire mouth with melted collagen and liquefied pork fat. Unlike chicken wings, these pork wings have none of the sinew, veins, or chewy knobs of cartilage that you must navigate around in order to find an edible chunk of meat. Instead, they are ALL meat and when you are done, you're left with a single, clean bone to discard.
Whoever is in charge of the food at Lovin' Cup should be inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame, based on the size of his/her balls alone.
Sure, the fondue lacked a lot of the accouterments to which I'm accustomed and the pizza was lackluster at best, but those things seem like flimsy tree branches trying to block out the blinding light emitted by that glorious pork dish.
While I thought the modern, jazzy atmosphere was really, really cool and the service was great, I have to admit I would probably eat Pigs on the Wing out of a giant particle board box with the word "Resterunt" spray painted on the side and still give the place four stars.
I'm just glad, for my heart's sake, that Lovin Cup isn't within walking distance of my house.
Love the environment! While I waited for my dinner guest, I got a drink at the bar- he was helpful and good with suggesting drinks. He went out of his way to seat us outdoors and tell us the specials-I thought he was our waiter- unfortunately he wasn't . We had a gal who was slow and forgot to bring drinks or at least it seemed so because she would return to the table once or twice without drinks. The fried pickles were good and hot. Our salads were heavy on the white spine part of the romaine. For the less than fab salads and the slow service we lowered the stars. I've been here before and would have given higher marks. Today was maybe an off day.
Review Source:Great place to hang out. Great music, friendly staff and top notch food for amazing prices. Great selection of beer too including their house brew "Foxy Lady." Mostly college kids but a good mix of older people too. Not at all a typical "college bar" though. This is a place you could take your parents or kids to and not feel embarrassed.
Review Source:This is my FAVORITE bar in the entire world right now. I have been coming here since it first opened. I am a "local" at this place. The environment is great, the managers are AMAZINGLY friendly, the food is REALLY good (their trademark is the "hot for teacher" sandwich -a must try if you go here for food), and their beer/wine is always great. They have a really good beer selection and a good wine selection. They do events every day at this bar, and there is never a boring moment here. THUMBS UP ALL THE WAY. This is my favorite bar EVER.
Review Source:At first glance the menu seems like the usual: apps, salads, soups, paninis, hot/cold sandwiches.  Just start reading the descriptions and  you will be in for a pleasant surprise!  A great  example is one of their gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches called Robots Rock - fig, prosciutto, spinach and goat cheese. My companion had this at our last visit and could not say enough about it!  Lovin Cup is vegetarian friendly with several choices! I had a Flat Beat - a veggie panini with grilled zucchini, summer squash, portabello mushrooms,spinach, and sundried tomato pesto, topped with provolone cheese. The panini was perfectly grilled. The mix of flavors was just phenomenal!
Their soups are all homemade and available for takeout by the pint. Â I love the Tomato, Spinach, Feta soup! Â Service has been topnotch every time we've been. The atmosphere is a lot of fun. We usually go on Tuesdays which is open mic night. The decor is very cool.....metal sculpted tables and student artwork throughout. Â BTW, it's not just a college hangout. I've seen people of all ages. Lovin Cup is an undiscovered Rochester treasure!
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