UC Davis Coffee Center

Crema's Take

“This is a university coffee lab that actually tastes as good as it looks, with beans roasted on-site and staff who genuinely care about the craft. You're paying a bit of a premium, but you're supporting real coffee education and getting exceptional dark roasts and pour-overs in return. It's the rare campus coffee shop that feels like a serious operation rather than a vending machine with better PR.”

What to expect

Espresso-focused, with a pour-over program. A slow-sit spot, good for meetings.

Pour overSlow sitMeetingsCraft espressoTraditional drinks

Google Reviews

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shania

★★★★★a month ago

I love the UC Davis Coffee Center! Accommodating staff, nice people, and a positive community oriented environment!

Kate Beckerman

★★★★★2 months ago

The UC Davis Coffee Center sounds impressive on paper, but to me it feels like another example of UC Davis branding something ordinary into a prestige project. Instead of feeling like a genuinely useful student-centered resource, it can come across as another polished campus…

★★★★★6 months ago

The UC Davis Coffee Center is another polished prop in the university’s ongoing theater. It’s clean, curated, and easy to point to as proof of a “great student experience.” But like most things at UC Davis, it exists to look functional, not to support anything meaningful. It’s a…

David Elgourt

★★★★★8 months ago

The coffee center is so awesome!

Sophia Alvarez

★★★★★8 months ago

The workers are so nice and sweet! I regularly buy coffee blends from the bookstore and they're packaged so nicely and with such care! The work they're doing there is so cool and amazing! Love it here 💗💗

Karen Blecker

★★★★★a year ago

Just got our first bag of dark roast beans. Had my first cup. I’m in heaven. It’s fabulous. A bit costly but so delicious.