Cafe Ava

48b Rolfe Square, Cranston
(401) 595-1249

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Ann Marie

The el ranchero was very tasty, the bread was unexpected, but tasty also. The food was hot and fresh. The Flan drink was delicious.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ana Barraza

The food is so good.

The place is always busy but the staff is very attentive and gets your order in and serves quickly.

The atmosphere is quaint and you don't even feel like you're in a store front space

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Kidalys Ruby

First time coming here and love the vibes, the music, and great service. I had the coquito iced latte. It was good but it was a bit too sweet it overpowered the espresso.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Justin Shaw

Very nice, cozy cafe. Love the delicious drinks and pastries. So many options!

Dietary restrictions: Various milk and vegan choices

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pastries, Cortadito, Build Your Own Arepa

Nick DeSimone

Best coffee I’ve had in a while and the breakfast sandwiches are really delicious! Cute place, good service. Cranston really needed a place like this. It’s not very visible from the street so I unfortunately have been missing out for a couple years driving right past it. Get a sign for up top!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Egg and Cheese

John Witmer

Awesome cafe with great espresso drinks and perfect to work remote and get some work done.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Robyn Rhea

I’ve tried lots of things here, different coffees, baked items, breakfast sandwiches - it’s always so good. My favorite coffee is the Cajeta latte. Their chocolate loaf cake is really really perfect. The bagel sandwich is great. Tres leches cupcakes, horchata lattes…it’s all good. I love this cafe!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pastries, Egg and Cheese, Build Your Own Arepa

S C

Beautiful little place with delicious coffee and many different kinds of breads.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Liana Brodsky

The food is great and the place is cute, however they are in violation of Rhode Island code: 23-72-1. Requirement of public restrooms. -- (a) The state department of health is hereby authorized to require that all restaurants, who serve patrons for consumption of food on the premises, have a public restroom. Restaurants which serve on strictly a "take-out" basis shall be exempt from this section.

They refused to let our 5 year old use a bathroom. You can eat food here, it’s not just take-out. We now know that this is against the state health code.

Christian Rodriguez

It’s good to support local mom and pop businesses with so many chains. It’s nice to see small business’s keeping it in the community. The place has a cool decorative vibe. Too bad Cranston is small and can’t support longer hours. Ordered the New Yorker, Bagel with Bacon, Egg and cheese with a Cortadito (expreso with steamed milk) Sucks when the staff doesn’t follow through with the promised expectations. A little bit disorganized when it came to receiving the order. One person took my order, and my sandwich came out promptly from the kitchen area. Felt a little rushed for something prepared well. The kitchen sounded busy, expectations were high. The sandwich was not. Advertised as the New Yorker, this was not on a bagel. This was a Supermarket purchased knock off bagel. Which tasted like an English muffin. Asked for mayo they offered a mayo ketchup, that was also not added. Was charged an extra $.50 for the sauce without being told it would be extra. That’s a huge customer service fail. The cortadito was also a fail, the expresó is strong. But the milk to espresso ratio was off. Waited for the person who took my order to make my drink as it looks like who takes the order makes the drink. Which is silly as it looks like bad customer service and lack of team work. The one person left after they made their drink and went to the back. Then the other person came back out to finish the drink.
Overall I wouldn’t waste the trip, as this was corner store (bodega) food at best. Ridiculous pricing. $13 for a coffee with milk and bacon, egg and cheese sandwich is absurd. Pictures attached.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Anchor Wu

i normally really love this place but the woman that is usually on register has terrible customer service. she never greets the customer and talks in a very cold tone and this time around, she didn’t even give me back all of my change. i was meant to be given back $38.65 and she gave me the $38 but failed to give me any of my coins? it wasn’t even a lack of having any, i saw rolls of them in there. it may just be 65¢ but that is nearly a dollar and considering the money i’m paying for the food, that 65¢ goes a long way. on top of ALL of that, the bagel i got was not as good as it usually is. it was rather hard compared to their usually fluffy bagels and they skimped out on my cream cheese. it was a really bad experience overall…

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 2

Anna

Delicioso! I love the vibe and the fact that it’s latino owned. The arepa con salsita de tomate was good and the tres leches latte was amazing. I will definitely be going back

Marg Ser

Little gem! Plenty of parking on the main road. Though you may drive right past it bc there’s no overhead sign on that strip of businesses but once you get closer you’ll see the gold lettering on the big glass windows overlooking the road. It’s connected to the barbar shop. Ambience is lovely. Beautiful Latin music playing in the background humming from voices enjoying a delicious breakfast, a fresh baked treat, or one (or all) of their specialized cafecito. First time…not my last.

Vegetarian options: Non-meat options are available.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Egg and Cheese, Build Your Own Arepa

Sherry D

Specifically asked for a beverage that was not sweet, and what I received was a very sweet and expensive latte. Place was very cute, but I clearly did not get what I asked for. Not coming back.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 1

Dawn Oakley

Over priced for what we got. Egg sandwich was over cooked

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