Royal Ground Coffee

1127 Solano Ave, Albany
(510) 525-0953

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David Paul Tuttle

Our new daily neighborhood coffee place....good coffee and fantastic staff

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Tatiana G

The coffee and snacks are passable, though overpriced. It's a good location and has outlets, wifi, and outdoor seating.
The coffee is ...well.. it's coffee.
The service people are asleep at the wheel.
Several times I ordered a decaf cappuccino, and each time, when I asked if what was made was in fact decaf, was told he's not sure, and would remake it.
Their baked goods are either pre packaged or not fresh.
But overall it's a decent enough place to sit and work.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 3

Ginger F

Coffee was horrendous and cost $5+. A joke.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 2

Marco Ivicic

i got an iced latte and it just tasted like a cold drip coffee, was just straight up terrible and not to mention expensive

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 3

Sarah Bee

Great place to get some work done (plenty of outlets). Indoor and outdoor seating. Coffee and pastries were good but it’s definitely on the expensive side (a large latte is $6.50)

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Gary Levy

Still Great

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Erika V

Worst coffee Ive had in a while. They forgot my vanilla syrup in my latte. Staff seemed very annoyed overall. I ordered a breakfast burrito to go with my coffee and they handed me a microwaved frozen burrito I probably could’ve got from a gas station for $1. Needless to say I will not be back. For $15 not worth it at all!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Cecile Wu

Been a couple times and it’s fine. However I did want to warn others that if you order one of their fruit smoothies, they’ll just blend one of those bottled Naked smoothies with ice. Literally cracked one open right in front of me and poured it straight into the blender. I don’t think they have any actual fruit. Was appalled I spent $7 on that.

ziggypopo

My favorite local corner Cafe. It just has a great ambiance and unique choice of baked goods and other snacks and breakfast items. And Mike's a great guy

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Fred Zimmerman

The croissants here are like supermarket croissants. Edible, but without joy. The coffee is similar—mine had a burnt undertone. The atmosphere is fine, but could be improved with some aesthetic attention. The location is great, and the service too.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 5

Robert Johnson

I’m not going to say the individual behind the counter was racist…BUT when I walked in to order a coffee he seemed uncomfortable and almost angry..as I approached the counter he didn’t greet me at all, just stood there and waited for me to order. I thought maybe I was being too sensitive. After I ordered and a group of white folks came in, he immediately gave them the “good morning, how are you doing today?” And was visibly more happy about serving them.

My latte was great, breakfast sandwich was bland. Might go back just to confirm this behavior.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 5

Service: 1

Mary Chiang

The cafe bogia latte (got it hot with oat milk) was INCREDIBLE. Not too sweet and very flavorful. Had the orange taste I wanted

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Alejandra R. Estévez

The guy that made my bagel was super rude and annoyed for some reason. He sort of yelled too when I asked him to repeat something. The bagel was good tho

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

yves beauvais

were here near closing time. unpleasant and surly man made us two absolutely disgusting drinks (one decaf one not) wgich hoth tasted like watered down burnt sock juice). it would be terrible coffee, even in tegions where coffee us not great. in the bay area....dirty water of kind is unthinkable.

Food: 1

Service: 1

Clio Soiffer

Cute place to sit and bagel sandwiches were decent but all the coffee tasted pretty bad, had a weird mechanical taste to it and we couldn't drink more than a third

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 4

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