Notes From Underground

Very nice breakfast at reasonable prices - would recommend

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

This is an absolutely magical place! I wrote this story in Spanish about this coffee shop and its usual people.Brian had been reading all morning. I waited, I reviewed the notes that my editor made to my novel, I observed it. Brian was solid, unchanging in front of his book, reading and underlining with an ancient and sacred devotion. Two hours passed before I decided to ask him about the title: then there was that kind of minimal light that, however, illuminates everything, in the past, in those moments of joy and vertigo and in the future. Brian explained it to me: he read Science Fiction and that particular book told of a war between a terrestrial army and a sidereal one. It was good, he continued, although not the best for his taste. "We may be close to an intergalactic war but what we are not close to is having a world army of marines... First we kill each other," he said, with the melancholy that comes with the abandonment of years, I suppose, and He added: "In any case, I don't think we're alone... I just don't believe it." Then he got up, searched among the books that the cafe displays and brought me what he considers to be one of the best titles he has read. It's for you, he said, you bring it when you return to San Francisco...Brian, I promise to come back and look for you. I promise, at least, to remember you.On the train to the airport I review the book: it is underlined from beginning to end. Craziness? Brian underlined each of the lines and words and letters that make up that volume. It occurs to me to believe that it is a delusion and I think of Borges, who said: "there are no simple words because their sole existence implies the existence of the universe, whose greatest attribute is complexity." I conclude that madness is highlighting only fragments of books, words chosen by chance that we surely do not understand. I imagine that Brian sensed everything: the writer's joy for the right word, the joy for the eloquent phrase, the silences, the doubts, the tiredness and the boredom. Everything that makes up a book. Everything that Brian saw and judged worthy of being remembered, of being highlighted...Brian is, above all, the origin of a certain light...The site is called "Notes from underground Cafe". There are days when literature engenders itself.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

It’s an amazing little coffee shop run but a sweet family.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Delicious breakfast and lovely service

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Excellent food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Sweet little spot affordable eats and coffee with great service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bagel Tomato and Cucumber

Decent cafe, quiet. Good reasonably priced drip coffee. Tea was loose leaf. Food was okay.

Good sandwiches! The woman at the counter is so friendly

Coffee and bagels were very tasty. Seems like a place for regulars, so we felt like outsiders.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

Tune melt wrap is fantastic! Parking can be challenging so call to order if you’re if you’re in a rush.

Nice place. Coffee is good and the chicken wrap was delicious.

not terrible but wasnt the worst. friendly staff and friendly customers

Notes from underground is a local authentic place with amazing bagels and sandwiches and affordable prices for San Francisco

not terrible but wasnt the worst. friendly staff and friendly customers

Coffee & bagel
Love it!