Gold Rush Coffee Co - Cafe in McMinnville - 135 NW 15th St, USA

The girls who work here are super sweet. They were open when most people were still having problems getting to work during to cold weather fiasco. So grateful they were!

Pizza Bagel Abomination. So I grew up in NY as a kid in the 90s, been in Oregon the last 20 years. I've been on the hunt for good sandwiches, bagels and pizza ever since. Driving by I saw "pizza bagel" advertised and was like "hell yeah" - I grew up eating these for lunch with a Stewart's soda. Absolute core childhood memory. So am I biased? Yes. Was this "pizza bagel" an abomination beyond redemption despite my bias?... Also yes. We also got a breakfast sandwich with "croissant bread" which I'll roast here, too. But this was actually somewhat edible. A pizza bagel is a bagel cut in half and prepared open faced with sauce, cheese and pepperoni. Like frozen Bagel Bites at the grocery store. Google it - it is uniformly this, there are no alternative preparations I could find. So we receive the "pizza bagel" in a bag, closed face. I was confused thinking they sandwiched it all together. Odd but okay. So we take off, my wife is driving, and I open it up to see what's inside of it... Nothing. Contained in the bag is cream cheese and a knife. At this point I can't wrap my brain around what's happening. When we get to our errand destination I open it up and see it's NOT a pizza bagel as the world knows it. It's a plain, pizza flavored bagel. This has the cheese and pepperoni baked into it, and I'm supposed to put cream cheese on this monstrosity like a normal bagel. If you're personally offended by what I just wrote, don't feel bad, I am too completely and utterly appalled. But maybe they know something we don't. Just because I never heard of it doesn't mean I know "the right way." So we prepare this with cream cheese and with open minds and hopeful hearts we bite... And oh my god this was the worst thing I've tasted that was intentionally prepared. First of all it's not even toasted. It's warmed up so it isn't cold, but it's not a toasted bagel. Secondly, there's some kind of fake pizza sauce flavor baked into this circular nightmare dough that tastes like those pizza combos snacks with a distinct chemical after taste. Third and most important, the pepperoni is spicy. Spicy pepperoni and CREAM CHEESE don't go together! At all! Like you don't put cheese on a salmon fillet or a steak. You don't put cream cheese on pizza and you certainly don't put cream cheese charcuterie meats. So this pizza bagel isn't even a pizza bagel. It's pizza flavored, and badly at that. It's not toasted and comes with cream cheese. This is such a culinary abomination I expect Gordon Ramsay to do a TV show swearing about it any day now. We also wondered what a breakfast sandwich with "croissant bread" was so we got a ham version to try. This was at least consumed, whereas the absolute antichrist pizza bagel was not edible. Opening the breakfast sandwich was surprising and answered as many questions as it raised. It was square. The bread was cut like sandwich bread but was croissant-like. I don't understand why this exists when croissants are like, just fine on their own. I've never heard of "croissant bread" in my life, and yes I've been to France. And while I'm upset about this on behalf of all of France and French cooking, it was by far the least offensive part of this sandwich. The problem lies in both taste and texture. I would argue texture is even more important than flavor most of the time. (Unless it's that pizza bagel...) The texture is wrong here. The bottom layer of bread has no sauce I could detect and is layered with "water ham" slices. You know the ham cold cuts so cheap they're basically ham mush reconstituted with hot water into a brick? Yeah, that's the bottom layer. I'm at the text limit, but the texture it gives is "fleshy." It feels like what I'd imagine chomping into somebody's arm feels like. There's no particular flavor here, the sandwich is homogeneously white-ish and that's exactly what it tastes like. Undersalted? Yes. But it is in desperate need of some flavor at all, mayo or hot sauce or anything. I rate this 10/10 for bad food with endless roasting and foodie rage opportunities!

the new owner, leann is super unprofessional she has fired three of my favorite employees, ainslie, Jordan and jesania over drama that she has created in the work place, all of those girl’s knew me personally and learned my drink order none of the girls she has hired and especially her daughter’s know my drink order and can executed in a timely matter, ainslie always has been respectful and have high energy every time she has greeted me at the window, I’m beyond mad and disappointed that the management at the shop can’t not respect and cherish the employees that bring them business without them they would have no customers, sincerely a regular since ainslie has work there

They use pumpkin sauce not syrup and it tastes like fresh pumpkin! Service is great, girls are super sweet, prices are cheap, highly recommend!

So I stopped at the stand and wanted to get a strawberry banana smoothie and they didn't have real fruit... idk who owns this store but seriously?!? The staff is wonderful. But not having product multiple times? Get real. Hey district manager or owner or whoever, get your stand some fruit. I don't want to go anywhere else. The 5 stars is for the staff...

I came here looking for a good bagel. Bagel was just warm, not toasted. It came with a cream cheese pack and a plastic knife to put it together yourself. Super disappointing. Coffee was pretty standard, but I just got a plain latte. Overall I wouldn't choose to come here again but if someone brought me coffee from here I wouldn't be upset or anything. Also here are some menu pics since I couldn't find them anywhere online.

Usually enjoy the drinks, today not so much. Both the hot coffee and frappe were WAY to sweet. Not sure if this is due to new workers or a switch in product since new management

Loved the coffee, but the real highlight is the dime piece that works there named Carolina. She knows how to work her hands, she makes coffee so well. And to say she can make a mean coffee is an understatement, I don't know how she isn't the manager yet. 10/10 would recommend this place.