
Living Room Coffeehouse - College Area
🇺🇸 San DiegoAbout Living Room Coffeehouse - College Area
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The Living Room Coffeehouse is a European café with a Californian flair, established since Thanksgiving Day, 1991. It offers a unique blend of coziness and exotic influences, perfect for both relaxation and work. This café chain has multiple locations throughout the San Diego area, including La Jolla, College, and Rancho San Diego. Visitors have the option of indoor and patio seating, with dedicated pick-up and delivery services available. Moreover, the café regularly hosts events and shows, making it a popular gathering spot. It combines European café culture with Californian influences, reflected in both the menu and the setting. This distinctive mix makes the Living Room Coffeehouse a favorite destination for both locals and visitors.
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Great vibe. Great food. Great place to work on your laptop with a good cup of coffee.
I loved how every sitting area was it's own universe! Some were working, others talking, it's a great space to have your laptop, a good book or hang out with friends ☺️
There's something for everyone here. It's a good place to sit and work on your laptop. Lots of variety on the menu and everything is delicious. Their snicker doodle cookie is the best, super soft with the perfect amount of cinnamon. The croissants are sooo good.
If you are a broke college student nursing a $5 coffee for 3 hours on "free" wifi at a dirty 4 top table while studiously avoiding the gaze of other customers looking for a seat -- this place is for you!
Everyone else? Hard pass for coffee and conversation.
The inside is tiny and cramped and eerily silent like a vintage library from the 70s. You order and pick up coffee at the counter.
The outside is also cramped with tables pushed closed together.
Customers with laptops claim all the large comfortable tables for a good chunk of the day so it is NOT a place for catching up over coffee or soaking in atmosphere.
Again broke young people LOVE this place. Struggling artists who want a reason to leave the house because they have no day job love this place.
If this is not you, move along.
Seat yourself after ordering at the counter. Lots of people squatting on their laptops. Not quick on cleaning the tables between guests. Avocado toast was tasty. Bakery limited.
Good coffee and work environment
Nice relaxed coffeehouse good for lunch and working. I ordered the blackened chicken salad and it was very well seasoned chicken and very fresh ingredients
FREE COFFEE FOR POLICE OFFICERS! Yay!
So, I have been patronizing this shop for years because the rotating staff is lovely and the coffee is consistent. I enjoy getting my work done here. Sometimes the food is way over salted and makes me parched but it's fine for the most part.
Today, the owner's son is here with his buddies, sitting in the dead center of the cafe, being EXTREMELY INCONSIDERATE of the other people inside. He is being VERY LOUD, debating politics, showing videos on full volume, laughing out loud, and having a great time without any regard for the other humans around him. The other folks here are all just glancing at each other, kinda wondering he has any idea that there are other people in the coffee shop. I think it's great that he's connecting with his buddies but they're borderline shouting inside the cafe and making it impossible to study-- even with noise cancelling headphones on. Several people have gotten up and moved/ left the cafe. They should have one iota of respect for the other people around, who are speaking at a normal volume.
This place is supposed to be European inspired and this behavior is unbearably anything but.
Next time I come, if I see this obnoxious kid sitting here, I will just go someplace else.
This place is great otherwise.
Cute place with good coffee and food. I like the couches and plush chairs. It is a comfy place to work or meet with others.
Take your laptop and get a coffee ☕ ☕ ☕ then focus on online class.
It's a nice place to relax & work or hang with friends
A great place to stay for hours, get some work done while drinking some coffee and having a delicious meal. I’m quite fond of spending an afternoon here with a pot of tea and a falafel wrap doing homework.
Cute spot to work but always busy, hard to find a spot to sit down to do your work. Wooden seats got to be uncomfortable after an 1hr it two.
Needed to do some work so we stopped by this cafe, classic to the area. The food was good, the smoothie ok. It’s always really busy.
A quiet place for study and work. Almost every table has electric plugs. Coffee is just okay.
Great space with good wifi
Amazing wifi, great food, fast service....even when very busy. This place is a gem
Good coffee good wifi cool atmosphere
Kickass wifi and yumminess!
The staff are really rude!! All they do is gossip to each other, their friends who are there and side eye you. I was literally waiting so patiently to order and right as I say my order, the cashier rings it up and scoots down the counter to talk to her friend that was behind me in line. I was paying with cash and had to wait 2 minutes until she noticed I was still at the register and told me to insert my card and when I showed my cash she finally attended me. I also had to ask for the wifi password which is normal but when I asked the waitress who was passing by, she did not even look at me or stop while she replied and I had to go back to wait in line to literally ask for the password. The cherry on top was the cold and weird tasting tortilla that my veggie breakfast burrito came in lol what happened to this place. It was the best coffee shop just 2 years ago
IDK why the pastries are all individually wrapped. They taste like grocery store pastries. Thanks for the wifi though, good place to work. Decent mocha.
Chill atmosphere,, best coffee. Friendly service. wifi works on the patio!
Great coffee and great food. I’ve been here about a 20 times to work on homework and I only have two complaints. 1. It can be pretty tough to find a seat and it seems a lot of college kids will sit without even ordering anything. 2. I have been there twice where the wifi would not work at all, it seems they have a limit on their network. This is unfortunate because I go there to work on my laptop. Overall great place but should definitely consider these two factors to improve.
Diverse crowd, great eats, good wifi.
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