
Black Hole Coffee House
🇺🇸 HoustonAbout Black Hole Coffee House
About
Black Hole Coffee House is a hidden gem in Houston's coffee scene, nestled between the Rice and UST campuses. This coffee haven exudes exclusivity and coolness, appealing to locals and savvy visitors alike. Its relaxed atmosphere is perfect for various occasions, whether you're seeking a quiet place to study, socialize, or simply enjoy some downtime. Offering plentiful lounge and outdoor seating, Black Hole allows patrons to savor their coffees in a preferred setting. The café boasts a rich menu featuring mouthwatering breakfast pastries, homemade treats, and enticing cheese plates. With a commitment to quality, their coffee selections include fair trade, organic, and kosher options, complemented by an array of delectable bites. Black Hole is well-equipped to meet modern needs, offering free Wi-Fi, gender-neutral restrooms, and dog-friendly policies, ensuring a welcoming experience for all. Whether you're in search of a new favorite coffee spot or just a cozy hangout, Black Hole Coffee House delivers on all fronts.
Food
The menu at Black Hole Coffee House features a delightful selection of breakfast pastries and homemade treats. Highlights include muffins, scones, and vegan cinnamon rolls, perfectly paired with a well-brewed coffee. Additionally, there's a bagel and lox kit sandwich and a tempting cheese plate option featuring fontina cheese and wild boar salami. For lunch, patrons can enjoy tasty tacos from a taco truck. The variety and quality of the food offerings contribute to the café's unique appeal, making it a favored spot for breakfast, snacks, or lunch breaks.
Coffee & Drinks
Black Hole Coffee House offers a varied drink menu with a focus on high-quality coffee creations. Customers praise the coffee quality, which includes fair trade, organic, and kosher options. The beans, such as Big Bend Coffee Roaster's Big Blend, are roasted in Marfa, providing a distinct flavor. Additionally, a variety of syrups like pistachio, lavender, and macadamia are available to enhance the drinks. Special offerings include unique coffee beverages like the Golden Latte with turmeric. Additionally, Happy Hour features coffee, beer, and wine, completing the beverage experience.
Work and Laptop Friendly
Black Hole Coffee House provides free Wi-Fi, although access is limited to 1 hour per receipt, which supports a work-friendly environment. The establishment offers both lounge and outdoor seating, making it ideal for meetings with friends, studying, or working. Gender-neutral restrooms and dog-friendly policies emphasize the café's inclusive environment.
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Work related reviews
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Great coffee. Good place to get work done
Decent spot for working and sipping a coffee!
Only 1 hour of wifi per purchase
This is a quaint coffee place in the museum district. Cappuccino and peanut butter cookies were awesome. One can work from here or have meetings too.
A place where people are usually working on stuff. Never loud. Textbooks and laptops. Good locale, parking is scarce.
One of my favorite places to grab a coffee and get some work done on my laptop. The coffee is high quality The service is great and the atmosphere is perfect for studying. Lots of food offerings in a refrigerator. Make sure you save your receipt for a code to the Wi-Fi.
A great place for digital nomad to work. Plenty of outlets, free wifi, lots of cozy seats. A lot of people are there to work. The staff isn’t the nicest, but not rude. Chai latte is a bit too sweet. But I enjoyed working there!
很可愛的小咖啡廳,有很多插座,還有免費wifi,大多數人都是去工作或看書畫畫的!員工不是太親切,但也不會太兇,chai latte有點太甜!但在那裡工作滿舒服的,音樂也okay
Nice place to get coffee and work out of. I like the ambience
Prices are affordable and well-done coffee.
My only concern is the light quality if you want to go to work on your laptop. It's my suggestion.
Cashier is rude. Coffee is pretty okay, but expensive. The music is terrible. Quite cold. Small uncomfortable tables. Just saying, if you wanna post up or need to use a laptop & a notebook and have coffee, it will be uncomfortable and pricey. Bring sound cancelling headphones.
Came to work for the morning. Truly appreciate a coffee shop with a food menu (not just pastries)
Decent place to work. Had some issues with wifi. Coffee was good, plenty of parking
The wifi is only valid for 30 minutes.
wifi limit 1 hr with receipt
You have to buy something and renew your wifi every hour... Terrible deal.
This place used to be great. One purchase, stay as long as you need.
AWFUL FOR STUDENTS — wifi is one hour per drink, and didnt even work. in attempting to obtain it, you HAVE to agree to receive promotional emails. service and food very mediocre. weird vibes.
The staff was friendly and the coffee was decent. The atmosphere was a bit "boring" for lack of a better word.
If you need a place to do homework/work then this may be it. If you are out to have a convo with a friend I would choose a different place because it's so quiet, everyone can hear your convo.
Definitely is a place if you want to study or work.
The 1-2 hour wifi is why I won’t come back. Happy to sit and buy 3-4 drinks (coffees and teas) as I normally do when working at a coffee shop for a few hours, but the 1 hour wifi rubbed me the wrong way. Disclaimer: I could connect to Xfinity’s hot spot through my internet provider without interruption. But the thought of everyone else trying to get work done and micro manage incremental wifi is wild to me.
wifi is super restricted. Major websites, like YouTube, are blocked and customers are limited to 1 hour of internet per purchase. In addition, you have to provide your email to connect, which subscribes you to Black Hole newsletters and ads.
Tables are also pretty small. Not ideal for studying :(
***NOT FOR studyING / MEETINGS / COMPUTER work IF YOU NEED TO USE THEIR wifi***
I came here as it’s a coffee house and it has great reviews for studying and remote workers, but I’m very disappointed that it’s only an hour at a time on the wifi per purchase. It’s unfortunate because class starts online in less than an hour and due to traffic, it’ll take me an hour to go across town to my usual spot.
I won’t be coming back. As a disclaimer, I spend when I patronize a business as I’m not there to just suck up the wifi and take up seats for other paying customers.
Otherwise, nice layout and spacious and great prices.
Only an hour of wifi given to us when we are the only ones there. Crazy experience from a coffee shop right next to Rice U. Food and coffee was also mid.
Extremely rude staff. Guy at the front asked me if I knew how to read because I had the audacity to ask him for the wifi password. You also only get wifi for ONE HOUR after purchases. Save your time and go somewhere else.
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