Diesel Cafe

257 Elm St, Somerville
(617) 629-8717

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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.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Abbey

Ordered a coffee and pastry online and headed over 20 minutes after my order was placed to pick it up. The order was not ready and after waiting another 10 minutes I asked an employee if they had it ready under my name. They said it would be up soon. When it was ready they said they did not have either of the two items I ordered in stock so they made me a vanilla latte and gave me a different pastry instead. I was confused why they didn't ask me what I would like instead when I went up the first time instead of giving me random selections. I asked for a refund and they said they couldn't give me one and I would have to do it online through the third party instead. They didn't apologize and the whole interaction was so awkward so I just took the items but will not be going back. This is the second time that has happened to me there so maybe think twice before placing an online order

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 4

Service: 1

Joshua Bawer

Tasty baked goods, cool cafe atmosphere. Slow, clunky service, but friendly and patient staff.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Dave Mathers

busy place, but so reliable for a breakfast. Service, drinks, and food are always excellent

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

d bitounis

One too many times I have been charged more than the listed price. Probably honest mistakes but still. Puff pastry is good, rest is ok. Prices are astronomical but college kids don’t seem to care.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 2

Jack Fenner

The breakfast burrito wasnt great. Everything was at the bottom except for the eggs which were at the top. A bit hard to enjoy when most of the time youre just eating egg and tortilla.

Tingwei Meng

Good food quality, a little bit expensive for me.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Luis Federico Suarez Suarez

Great place to sit, have a coffee and work during weeks

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jordan McCorbin

I love this café, and I always recommend it to people who are visiting my neighborhood. However, on my last couple times going there and ordering a bagel my bagel has always been burnt. Just Slightly frustrating but nonetheless is a great place to go

Addie Gambol

Came to try the coffee and use the analog photo booth which they’ve promoted on social media. Waited in line behind people using the photo booth, get in, not knowing we had to purchase an $8 coin to use it. we go to register to order and the rude cashier gives us a stale glance and says the photo booth has printing issues, after we watched a couple use it twice. yeah… okay.. seems by the other reviews that we saved our money not buying their overpriced coffee! go down the street to nine bar to get a better, cheaper latte

Gerber Blanco

Honestly food mid, chai okay, expensive which like whatever but for the WiFi not to be on is kind of annoying, it looks cool though

Joshua Morgan

Y’all tripping, charging $16 for a lox bagel with cream cheese. Could easily walk across the street to Elm Street Taproom for a meal and pay $2 more. Your staff is also rude and clearly unhappy.

Go to Starbucks just a few feet over, you’ll get better service, cheaper coffee, and more affordable food.

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