Crema's Take
“Spill the Beans makes a decent bagel sandwich when the execution clicks, but you're rolling the dice on inconsistency—toasting, schmear application, and coffee quality all seem to vary shift to shift, and at $5+ for a bagel with cream cheese, there's not much margin for error. The outdoor seating is genuinely pleasant and it's a solid laptop spot, but reviews cluster around "fine if you catch them on a good day" rather than reliably good, so it's worth trying if you're in the neighborhood but not worth planning around.”
What to expect
Classic coffee drinks done right. A slow-sit, laptop-friendly, quick-grab spot, outdoor seating. Full breakfast, pastries, and light food on the menu.
Google Reviews
See all on Google →Not impressed. Barely any schmear on my bagel, (though what was in there was tasty). the vanilla schmear was less like schmear and more like canned frosting, it was weird and they didnt toast that bagel for some reason. Lox bagel had odd thick huge chunks of salmon not thin…
My top stop for a bagel sandwiches. Can't go wrong with a San Dieggo and a BLT for the road.
We were looking for a quick coffee to start our day when we came across this cute spot with outdoor seating. After a few days of mist and fog, the sunny weather in San Diego made it the perfect place to stop. We ordered two hot lattes and couldn’t resist getting a bagel to…
Great casual spot to hang out and grab a bagel and coffee. 5.20 for a toasted bagel with cream cheese isn't the worst these days, but I did with it was toasted on the inside as it didn't have much of a crunch to it. My friend ordered the bagel with lox and they said it had a…
I ordered the chaggachino and frankly it wasn’t anything special. The coffee tasted whatever and it wasn’t as striking as the one I had at Brick and Bell in La Jolla. My friend ordered a green tea latte and was not really fond of it either. She also ordered a bagel sandwich…
Crema Reviews
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