Customer Ratings & Reviews

I absolutely love my Grind and Brew Coffee Maker! From the first use, I could taste the difference in freshness — the built-in grinder ensures that every cup is made with freshly ground beans, filling the kitchen with an amazing aroma. The design is sleek and easy to use, and cleanup is surprisingly simple compared to other machines I’ve owned. The programmable timer is a lifesaver — I wake up every morning to a perfectly brewed pot of coffee waiting for me. It’s also versatile enough to adjust the grind and strength for any preference, whether I’m in the mood for a strong espresso-style cup or a lighter morning brew. Overall, this coffee maker has truly elevated my morning routine. It combines convenience, quality, and that rich café-style taste right at home. Highly recommended for any coffee lover who values both flavor and freshness!

I have received so many compliments on how beautiful this coffee maker is. I am an avid coffee drinker and have used all the features this has available, from making a full carafe, to just a single cup, the built -in grinder is an absolute game changer. The only thing I wish is that it had a heating feature to keep the carafe just a little warmer after the brew, although the insulation in the carafe does keep the pot of coffee warm for a bit, it would be nice for it to stay heated at full temp for a least a little while. But, overall extremely satisfied!!

Coffee taste great. Looks classy and love the large water container. Only complaint is it does 10 cups of coffee versus our old machine that did 12.

Wow, what a coffee maker. This coffee machine is something else. This takes coffee to a science!

The Café - Grind & Brew Smart Coffee Maker looks great on my countertop. It stands tall at a little over 17 inches high and takes ample space in any kitchen. It comes in three different finishes; I have the stainless steel finish with copper accents which looks modern and high end. According to the manufacturer, it ‘is the first drip coffee maker to…be certified by the Specialty Coffee Association as a Gold Cup Brewer’; which raised my expectations. Setting up the coffee maker is straightforward and fairly easy as long as you follow the instructions manual. It has two different filters; one to use with the carafe and a smaller one for single serve use. There’s an LED screen with control buttons to set up the time, turn off the grinder and to customize your brewing preferences such as temperature, strength and volume size. To take full advantage of this machine, it should be connected to the SmartHQ app and set up through Wi-Fi. That was the only issue I had while setting it up; it would not pair with the app and after a few minutes, I almost gave up and turned off the app and opened it again and it finally detected the coffee maker. Once connected, the app is intuitive and easy to use; You can program up to three favorite brews and also delay brews for the whole week. The app lets you set up all kinds of notifications and, very important to me, it lets you turn off the loud beeping at each press of a button. I was able to connect it to my Google Home app and control it by voice. This machine makes great coffee and makes the process so much easier. I use both ground coffee and coffee beans and I really like the fact that I don’t need a separate grinder as one is included. The grinder has a knob to adjust the grind size from coarse to fine and in between; this is very important depending on the coffee beans and desired results. As it grinds, the noise is moderate and muffled from its emplacement. The grinder can be turned off for ground coffee use. This coffee maker comes with a giant 75-ounce water reservoir that you can fill up and it uses the water as you go. At the bottom of the reservoir there’s a filter to deliver clean water for brewing. I’ve made several different kinds of coffee beans both flavored and natural. I tinkered with the settings to suit each different flavors and it’s been a complete success. I enjoy the quality of the coffee that I drink and this machine has been a revelation. There’s even a bloom time option, which is customizable in the app, to help keep the maximum taste with freshly ground coffee; coffee connoisseurs will love that feature. The Café - Grind & Brew Smart Coffee Maker is the best coffee maker I’ve ever owned. It is simple to use for the regular coffee drinker and sophisticated enough for the coffee lover. It comes with many features and has a stunning look and feel of great quality craftsmanship. The only drawback is the size that is not suitable in a small kitchen but other than that, it stands among the best coffee makers in the market.

Ok well this is one stylish coffee maker. It’s absolutely stunning and it matches our GE Café air fryer to a T. We thought we were getting black but it arrived in silver which was actually perfect, since our fryer was the same color. I was so impressed to see how simplistic it is but how advanced it is also. I was immediately excited to remove our giant land mass of an espresso machine to replace it with this. The simplest reason that we love the GE café coffee machine….The espresso machine had become such a cumbersome over complicated machine that it had become a place holder on our countertop. The excitement had definitely wore off bc when you are a family that’s always on the go, you quickly realize that you don’t have all the extra time to fine tune, dial in and train like the Olympics to be a perfect barista every day. The GE café coffee maker was made to make life simple again but in a beautiful, more compact and smart way. It was so easy to set up, and the most difficult part was just figuring out how much ground coffee to place into the basket, haha. It’s easy to set it and forget it, with the app where you can set it to make your coffee any way you like it at any time of the day and all week long if you prefer. There are a few extra settings that can be done through the app as well, like “extra bold”. You can also set up to 3 favorites to cycle through so that’s perfect if you have multiple people who like to enjoy their coffees differently. There’s one issue that I found, and I hope it’s fixed quickly with an update. When trying to save a “favorite” that has the “extra bold” brew with the temp of 185*, specifically for iced coffee, it fails to save those settings. We will go check to see if it’s saved, and it resets back to factory “Gold” settings, so on and so forth. It only refuses to save the settings when we switch it to “extra bold”. It has gotten stuck “loading” to which we would have to restart the app when trying to save that specific setting as well. But we have saved other favorites under other brew strengths and those saved just fine. You absolutely dont need the app if you aren’t concerned with setting up schedules, having favorites, making small customizations, knowing about your filter, descaling times, notifications displayed on your phone, etc. You can set the coffee machine directly and it will remember your last settings until you change them manually. It makes a whole huge carafe of coffee with multiple cup size options that stays warm for hours, or you can make a personal size cup with multiple oz. options. It handles ground and whole coffee beans. To me it’s quiet 🤫 which compared to the espresso machine is a dream. It also counts down the brew time so you know when your brew will be ready and it will also let you know how long the coffee has been sitting. The parts are easy to clean, but it has to be done by hand. I don’t think any of the parts are dishwasher safe. Well here’s the most important part…The coffee tastes absolutely delicious. I’m the member who isn’t a huge coffee fan. I don’t need it or drink it daily but wow it made such a delicious tasting cup, even I was excited to wake up to a few cups in the past two weeks. My husband has had his daily and it’s been a joy to try all the different settings to see what’s our perfect cup. And my mom who is at our house all of the time, and drinks coffee morning and night, has enjoyed every cup. She can get quite frustrated with new tech, all the fancy buttons, dials, gadgets, etc. but It’s easy enough for her to understand and make it herself and she has loved it too. I highly recommend this coffee machine to everyone. And if you have a couple GE café appliances this will definitely hit the mark in your kitchen. I would’ve given 4 stars because of the one issue currently with the app, but it hasn’t affected us enough to remove the star if it’s based solely on the machines performance. It makes great coffee and it’s easy to use. So it gets a full 5 stars from us.

The Cafe Grind and Brew Smart Coffee Maker is a great piece of equipment for your kitchen or office. I will state that I was not sent the black on as pictured, I received the all stainless version in the box, so I cannot state how the black surfaces hold up to scratches, staining or how it cleans, I was hoping to receive the black to match the rest of the current redesign of my kitchen. To stay on the subject, the stainless version looks great and is super easy to clean, but, it does scratch very easily, so scrub lighting with a soapy towel, do not use a scrub pad or the back of a sponge, I found out real fast it dulls it up. The water container is plastic, not glass, but is very thick and has a glass like feel and look without the weight. The carafe is nicely built with plenty of girth to keep your brew warm for hours and the lid is very tightly sealed with a small turn of your wrist. Now, on top the brewing, there is only one setting we use and that is the Gold setting, which produces the smoothest coffee I have ever had in my life. We use a very common brand of coffee and our other pot in one that has great reviews and I even gave it a great review but the Cafe Grind & Brew simply beats it with ease. There are 3 other settings as well, light, medium and bold. The coffee maker also has brew sizes from small ounces to full 10 cup pots, you pick the size. Now, you have picked the level and size of your brew, lets not forget how hot, and you get 20 degrees of adjustment, we put it on the 205 degrees and leave it, we love super hot coffee. The grinding works great, if you are not using it, make sure to turn the grind feature off or you will be waiting longer for your coffee. The grinding is adjustable and goes from fine to more grannual size, we left it in the middle and it seems to be perfect, like normal coffee. It is loud when it grinds, it is not something we can use at 430 am, kids need to sleep. The coffee maker using pre-ground coffee, it is whisper quiet until it gives a little beep when it is all done. We have moved our old pot out of the way for this one, we love it, looks great(even though the black looks way better) and makes one heck of a great pot of hot coffee.

Café - Grind & Brew Smart Coffee Maker with Gold Cup Standard Café’s approach to this complete coffee experience starts with eye-catching style, continues with tech that adds convenience to the tedious, and finishes up with perfectly brewed coffee. My wife has experimented with the more elaborate coffee systems and has no problem firing up the simplest office machine. Her conclusion regarding Café’s exciting looking coffee maker is that it’s possible to impress the most meticulous coffee snob (her included) while keeping the effort surprisingly simple. It’s now her choice to keep the process “office machine“ simple or spend a few minutes more to tailor the coffee preparation to achieve her ideal cup or carafe. The Café is very pretty, in a modernist way. And, yet it does not sacrifice simplicity and function to convince you of how special it is. It makes great coffee. SETUP: Kudos for Café for their very useful, complete, easy-to-read, and accessible instruction booklet. The machine is very intuitive so that helps. There is even a cheat sheet which we’re going to laminate. (Psst, GE, you could do that, too.) Every step can be modified from the control panel, but the Café starts you off with setting that get you close.You will need to set the clock, and if set up Wi-Fi the time will stay accurate and you can save your preferred settings. (Hold HOUR + MINUTE to initiate WiFi setup.) The Default setting are a the starting point,, but from there you find the button on the CONTROL PANEL to pick your TEMPERATURE, pick your brew size (volume), pick your STRENGTH, start BREW, or the next button over DELAYS the start, and start GRINDER action or CLEANING with the final button. The instruction booklet contributes immensely to your understanding of the machine, the adjustments that will improve your coffee to your taste and some art and science behind the brewing process.. SUMMARY: After you get past the distinctive design, the imposing size, and the very complete-while-staying-simple coffee making process you have to marvel at the thoughtful engineering. Café has managed to create a coffee machine that manages to compete with more complex and fussy machines and pleasantly satisfy serious coffee lovers.

I was skeptical but pleasantly surprised! This coffee pot does everything it says and the coffee is delicious. I have it set to Gold setting per all the reviews. The delay function is a must and I love that I don’t have to grind beans ever!

This coffee maker has absolutely changed my morning routine! It’s so convenient and makes THE BEST at home coffee I’ve ever had!

I really enjoy make the coffee in this coffee machine

Very good combination of a grinder and coffee maker.

This is the best coffee maker ... So easy to use and so cute

Excellent machine. Good quality coffee and easy setup and use.

This machine is perfect!! Is the best of the best gift...

Machine is very good makes your coffee taste better than ever especially with it grinding fresh beans for every brew

I’m a big Cafe fan and this made a beautiful addition to our pantry.

Bought this as a supplement to our Cuisinart grind and brew when I just wanted a single cup of coffee. Works great, love the granular settings like being able to change temps etc of the water. Overall, I enjoy this unit. Easy cleanup for the next cup

This is the best coffee machine hands down, I read the reviews about how it leaks so much. I haven’t had that problem yet. But other than that coffee at home is great

well made and makes the best drip coffee ever, it has a lot of great features i never see on a drip coffee machine