Commune Café + Bar + Roastery
🇵🇭 ManilaAbout Commune Café + Bar + Roastery
About
Commune Café + Bar + Roastery is located in Manila, renowned for its love for coffee and conversations. Owner Rosario Juan, a coffee enthusiast and social media strategist, has been deeply entrenched in the Philippine coffee industry since 2003. She collaborates closely with the Philippine Coffee Board, Inc. (PCBI). The café champions Philippine coffee farmers, using 100% Philippine coffee beans sourced locally, as the country’s climate and soil conditions suit all four coffee species—Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Commune is a community-centric space that fosters discussions, providing a welcoming ambiance for people to gather and interact. Besides offering coffee, it also hosts events for diverse communities. The second floor is notable for its event space, accommodating workshops and cultural performances. Commune's vision promotes local coffee culture and celebrates Philippine coffee.
Food
The Commune Café offers a diverse range of food options. The menu includes traditional Filipino comfort food and light meals. Guests can choose from a variety of dishes, including salads, crostinis, sandwiches like Pandesal and paninis, different pasta dishes, and rice bowls like Adobo. For lighter appetites, snacks and all-day breakfast options are also available. This selection of dishes reflects the rich culinary tradition of the Philippines, allowing guests to experience local flavors in a cozy setting.
Coffee & Drinks
The drink selection at Commune Café is heavily focused on Philippine coffee. The café prides itself on using 100% Philippine coffee beans sourced directly from local farmers. This includes the four coffee species—Arabica, Liberica (Barako), Excelsa, and Robusta, which thrive in the diverse climatic and soil conditions of the Philippines. Guests can enjoy the unique flavor of locally sourced coffee, available with various brewing methods, such as V60, Chemex, AeroPress, or French Press, taught through home brewing courses.
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free wifi is only for a hour. not good for working
Overrated and mediocre at best. wifi is a public wifi that limits you to 1 hour. Aircon is not even cooling, makes you feel like you’re in a sauna in the middle of the day. Not a 4.5 for sure!
Delicious coffee and food. Good wifi and place to work on the laptop.
Solid place to visit to work or meet someone. They serve solid coffee and food. I would rank higher if they provided wifi but they don't.
Café muy rico y con wifi!! Eso si, necesitas un teléfono con Sim filipina.
Good coffee. Unfortunately wifi only for 1 hour.
Great coffee, lovely staff, menu has some interesting moments of local flair. Just wish there was wifi for free! But otherwise it's a winner. Transitions well into a bar with the 2nd floor balcony vibe at night.
The wifi is only available if you have a philippines SIM card, otherwise you’re SOL. the food is ok, but a bit on the expensive side. 270p for a beef tapa? Damn.. 145p for an Americano? That’s Starbucks prices for a worse looking place with no wifi.
Recommen you should come, everything will be perfect, and they have wifi to working
Pretty good place to do some work, writing, or reading. Good serving size for the chicken tocino bfast.
It was a comfortable place to relax and do work while enjoying coffee and a meal. The staff is courteous and attentive. Would recommend for Hangouts or study out.
The coffee was great with it's ambiance good for busy people working or even just catching up. This place gives you the homey feels with good food and drinks!
Seats aren't comfortable and wifi isn't too great. But it's a decent place to get some work done on your laptop. Use your mobile data plan to share it with your laptop.
When it comes to free wifi , Manila is stuck in 2006.
Staff is friendly and professional
Meals option are fine.
Good coffee. Good food. Nice staff. Good ambience. They have 2 kitties which are not so friendly but still its quite understandable with cats' attitude.😁 Nice place to work with your laptop, basta ma-timingan mo na bakante ung spots with outlets which is malapit sa mga electric fan. Yung CR nila may bidet din. Feels like home outside home.
They truly have great coffee. Amazing.
Also possible to buy the beans.
Quite a remote work spot.
wifi sucks as you have to go through the registration portal. Never really managed and when i did it was only one hour wifi. They dont't provide other instructions. I asked for instructions to the waitress, but they didn't gave it except that you have to register via phone number,
Also no instructions written anywhere.
At the end I managed to register via phone number , but with only one hour wifi that you are granted then, you are quite fast done.
So room for improvement.
Outside balcony which is nice.
Staff upstairs very friendly.
Downstairs I had difficulty understanding them because of the facemasks (quite annoying)
Food is good. Breakfast recommended,.very good.
Went there in the morning of a holiday. Very few people so I enjoyed the cozy vibes better. I bet you can do some productive creative work here because of the space. Staff are very friendly!! The rice meals are filling and I really enjoyed the sunlight vibes by the window 🩷 There's a cute resident cat in the cafe too! 🐱
good food and very work friendly
COMMUNE IN 2021 (Pandemic)
- only second-floor seating
- alfresco/ the 2nd floor is open.
- still good coffee and food.
- not a quiet place if you plan on having virtual meetings/ working. But can work.
I don’t have photos of the place. We dined at the 2nd floor. Nice place to work. Open air sya but there were fans naman. Ground floor lang may aircon. Overall, I liked it 🙂 nice place to catch up with your friends.
Foods that I’ve tried:
ICED TODDY WITH MILK: 4/5⭐️; syrup lang yung nagdala but weak as a coffee (for me who likes strong coffee)
PESTO PASTA: 4/5⭐️; generous serving plus the cheeeeeese 🧀🤤
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