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Friends Cafe

335 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC

★★★★★4.5(81 Google reviews)

Crema's Take

Tucked into Chapel Hill's campus scene, Friends Cafe punches well above the typical college coffee shop with genuinely excellent espresso and creative seasonal specials like their beloved pumpkin pie chai. The cozy, quaint atmosphere draws regulars back weekly for carefully crafted lattes and homemade syrups, while their rotating selection of local pastries (including that famous pumpkin chai muffin) makes it the perfect spot to linger with friends or settle in with a book.

What to expect

PastriesMeetingsSpecialty drinksSlow sitSignature drinksLight foodTraditional drinks

Google Reviews

Mazzy Swanson
★★★★★6 months ago

such a cute and quaint coffee shop, zanavia made us amazing coffees !!! luv the pumpkin pie chai

John Sperger
★★★★★6 months ago

An on-campus coffee shop has no reason to be this good, but I'm glad they are. Coffee and espresso drinks are all well made. Limited number of pastries from a few local sources, but they tend to sell out. Small note because a number of reviews mention Counter Culture: they've switched to Black & White for their beans (if I recall correctly) Note 2: it's in a school library building so watch out for it being closed some days based on the academic calendar.

Sam Bust-Webber
★★★★★9 months ago

Amazing coffee made with great beans and milk. Some of their specials have been very interesting and they have a nice range of snacks, the pumpkin chai muffin is my favorite.

Bree Smith
★★★★★a year ago

I’ve been coming here weekly for lattes and I’m never disappointed. Friends has fun seasonal drinks, delicious homemade syrups and really reasonable prices. Would highly recommend!!

Natiaya Neal
★★★★a year ago

Definitely have been going to this coffee shop for years, however- recently experienced some very nonchalant attitudes towards my dairy allergy. Not sure if I will go back. It's not cool to charge $6 for a latte and it literally tries to kill you! When I went back to tell them about this error, customer service was not good 😐

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