Cafe Bassam
🇺🇸 San DiegoAbout Cafe Bassam
About
Cafe Bassam in San Diego is renowned for offering an experience akin to stepping into a time warp. The café is adorned with lovely antiques and bric-a-brac, which enhance the unique and enjoyable experience for visitors. Its philosophy appears to center around creating a cozy and inviting environment ideal for working, studying, or casual meet-ups. With an extensive selection of teas, wines, iced drinks, and spice-filled cookies, Cafe Bassam attracts both students and art enthusiasts. Despite some criticisms regarding management decisions, the friendly staff contribute significantly to a pleasant visit. As highlighted by one reviewer, it's a place where you might feel like you're on the set of an Agatha Christie movie. This charming blend of warm, vintage ambiance and appealing beverage choices makes Cafe Bassam a notable escape from the everyday hustle in San Diego.
Food
Cafe Bassam offers a variety of food options suitable for both light snacks and more substantial meals. The menu features small plates such as the URBN Salad Plate, which includes mixed greens, pears, gorgonzola, walnut brittle, and vinaigrette, with an option to add oven-roasted chicken breast. For those preferring a spicier bite, there are Hot Chicken Wings marinated in spicy herbs and roasted in a wood oven. Additionally, the café serves a range of 14-inch pizzas with various toppings. Among them is the popular Margherita Pizza with tomato sauce, mozzarella, basil, and olive oil, as well as the unique Hot Honey Pizza topped with honey, jalapenos, and pepperoni. Whether looking for vegan, classic, or experimental flavors, the selection is diverse and likely to satisfy any palate.
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Work and Laptop Friendly
Cafe Bassam is well-suited for productive work. The café provides free Wi-Fi and has sufficient power outlets available for working on laptops. Whether for studying or accomplishing other tasks that require a cozy environment, Cafe Bassam, with its thoughtfully designed work-friendly areas, serves as an ideal spot.
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Delicious coffee and a beautiful and relaxing place to work in.
Always great place to work and enjoy the Alex's
If you're in the area, want to enjoy a cup of coffee, and unwind after a long day of work, this is the place to go. Got a hot white mocha and was amazing.
Interior looks very old and dated; brings an abundant amount of character I was truly impressed with.
One of the few drawbacks I would find in this place is the lack of lighting in this area, often that will either be of no concern perhaps in the summer, but around the fall/winter time this could be of concern. Another (unless I was not aware of this) was the lack of wifi, not that it's a big deal but an addition of such would be nice.
Overall, solid coffee shop. Come by and enjoy.
Nice local coffee shop where you can stop and get coffee, meet and talk to your friends. It also has Wi-Fi so if you need to do a little work you can do that here too.
Perhaps one of my favorite coffee shops.
They have great tea options as well. The atmosphere feels different, takes you back to a previous era, wooden decor, high ceilings, and cozy space. Coffee gets prepare relatively fast and the baristas are really nice.
I usually go there to study / work and it’s always a productive setting.
Been going here for 12 years...love it! Great spot to work or write. wifi is fast too
Delicious Chai latte. Haven't tried the food. Lots of ppl with their laptops open and on their phones. 19911991 is wifi password.
This place is ridiculous, they have their outlets cancelled so if you want to charge your phone or need to do some work on your laptop you can't!
This place is super nice. The food was way above par for a cafe and they have a great selection of teas. They put up with me hanging out with my laptop for a while. Will return next time I'm in San Diego. Thanks!
It's a bit of a strange place. Most people are sitting and working on laptops but at the same time they have original beers.
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