Diesel cafe is cool, it just doesn’t stand up to competition food wise. Dave’s Bread is down the street and blows the sandwiches out of the water.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Honest Reviews
This place has a vibe. Drinks & pastries are great. Games & pool table show wear & tear. You can get the bathroom passcode only at the cashier and you gotta wait in the long line to get the code.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Babak Fard
Not a good location for long time working. Provides only few power outlets in the end of the place where the sits are not comfortable. Also, there is no attendant. If you are alone with laptop and everything on the table you have to leave them to go by the counter and wait for the order to get ready.
Might be good for short gatherings, but definitely not good as a working environment
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
Rainy TAA
A cozy café with a beautiful, stylish interior that makes it a perfect place to relax. There’s a wide selection of desserts to choose from, and the coffee is delicious. Definitely a great spot to sit back and enjoy the atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fanuel Muindi
Fantastic atmosphere and love that it’s been there since 1999
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Daniel Little
Coffee is honestly not good. Every time I get a drink here I wish I went somewhere else
Sydney Runkle
Brek sandwiches here are excellent. Can be quite crowded / hard to find a seat, but that just speaks to the good reputation. The space is large enough that you can find a few different vibes in here - the back pool table area is almost dive bar like, and the sunny tables at the front are perfect for a yap w an old friend.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Brian McBride
Good location, coffee & espresso. Students hunker down for the duration making seating a challenge.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Dmitry Kamonichkin
I love drinking different types of coffee. When I came to Boston, I decided to drink coffee at different cafes in the morning. I probably won't be able to find the same coffee as in Europe. But that's not the cafe's problem. Otherwise, everything is great!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
ana banana
terrible. the lady was so rude, she just threw my pastries on the desk where it was touching the paying ipad thing. so gross. i asked a question and she was super rude. the drinks were bad, the pastries they can’t warm them up for some odd reason, and the atmosphere is a little meh. the place is cute and that’s it. there’s nothing else to do in the area except more restaurants and cafes, so if you live far i don’t think it’d worth the drive.
Diesel Cafe is a decently sized cafe with multiple different amenities inside of it, such as a pool table and a photobooth for use within it.
We came on a snowy day, and it was still decently packed and busy. The place was a bit uncleanly though, which may be because of how many people were going in and out. The bathrooms were uncleanly, even though there is a password lock on the door.
We tried a cardamom bun, which had a slight taste of lemon and was alright, I think that was just my preference though. The drinks looked good though, but I didn't try it. It is a nice place, but I think I'd go back only on a less busy day.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Hayley Feinberg
Don't expect to find seating on a weekend. Just get to-go coffee, which will disintegrate through the paper cup and drip all over you as you try to rush home. As you pour your $5 drip coffee into your own mug, you realize you could have made better tasting coffee at your house for 1/100th of the price and ended up with the same result :) If you really want to venture out for coffee in Davis, Nine Bar down the street is way better.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 5
Dia Nim
Crowded. All tables taken by people in their laptops. They messed up our order. The roll was hard and tasted like a day old. We had to wait 10min for coffee and 20min for a table. Pick a different place to go on weekends
Sara Ansari
This cafe is like your REI crowd meets industrial decor. Super chill and laidback cafe with plenty of seating and is much larger on the inside than you can imagine. Great place to do some work or just hangout over their awesome pastries and coffee!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Bill Dougherty
Hipster cafe, revamped & spacious. $16 Breakfast Burrito was tasty but not big. This is maybe the best people-watching in Somerville, and the veritable hub of the nabe.
Diesel cafe is cool, it just doesn’t stand up to competition food wise. Dave’s Bread is down the street and blows the sandwiches out of the water.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
This place has a vibe. Drinks & pastries are great. Games & pool table show wear & tear. You can get the bathroom passcode only at the cashier and you gotta wait in the long line to get the code.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Not a good location for long time working. Provides only few power outlets in the end of the place where the sits are not comfortable. Also, there is no attendant.
If you are alone with laptop and everything on the table you have to leave them to go by the counter and wait for the order to get ready.
Might be good for short gatherings, but definitely not good as a working environment
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
A cozy café with a beautiful, stylish interior that makes it a perfect place to relax. There’s a wide selection of desserts to choose from, and the coffee is delicious. Definitely a great spot to sit back and enjoy the atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fantastic atmosphere and love that it’s been there since 1999
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Coffee is honestly not good. Every time I get a drink here I wish I went somewhere else
Brek sandwiches here are excellent. Can be quite crowded / hard to find a seat, but that just speaks to the good reputation. The space is large enough that you can find a few different vibes in here - the back pool table area is almost dive bar like, and the sunny tables at the front are perfect for a yap w an old friend.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Good location, coffee & espresso. Students hunker down for the duration making seating a challenge.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
I love drinking different types of coffee. When I came to Boston, I decided to drink coffee at different cafes in the morning. I probably won't be able to find the same coffee as in Europe. But that's not the cafe's problem. Otherwise, everything is great!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
terrible. the lady was so rude, she just threw my pastries on the desk where it was touching the paying ipad thing. so gross. i asked a question and she was super rude. the drinks were bad, the pastries they can’t warm them up for some odd reason, and the atmosphere is a little meh. the place is cute and that’s it. there’s nothing else to do in the area except more restaurants and cafes, so if you live far i don’t think it’d worth the drive.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
Restaurantji Recommends
Diesel Cafe is a decently sized cafe with multiple different amenities inside of it, such as a pool table and a photobooth for use within it.
We came on a snowy day, and it was still decently packed and busy. The place was a bit uncleanly though, which may be because of how many people were going in and out. The bathrooms were uncleanly, even though there is a password lock on the door.
We tried a cardamom bun, which had a slight taste of lemon and was alright, I think that was just my preference though. The drinks looked good though, but I didn't try it. It is a nice place, but I think I'd go back only on a less busy day.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Don't expect to find seating on a weekend. Just get to-go coffee, which will disintegrate through the paper cup and drip all over you as you try to rush home. As you pour your $5 drip coffee into your own mug, you realize you could have made better tasting coffee at your house for 1/100th of the price and ended up with the same result :) If you really want to venture out for coffee in Davis, Nine Bar down the street is way better.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 5
Crowded. All tables taken by people in their laptops. They messed up our order. The roll was hard and tasted like a day old. We had to wait 10min for coffee and 20min for a table. Pick a different place to go on weekends
This cafe is like your REI crowd meets industrial decor. Super chill and laidback cafe with plenty of seating and is much larger on the inside than you can imagine. Great place to do some work or just hangout over their awesome pastries and coffee!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Hipster cafe, revamped & spacious. $16 Breakfast Burrito was tasty but not big. This is maybe the best people-watching in Somerville, and the veritable hub of the nabe.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
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