Blvd Coffee of Almaden

While not one of my top coffee shops, I feel this place has a lot of potential. It is spacious, has a good amount of seating, with a great selection of food - including pastries, breakfast sandwiches and a great place to go for crepes. They make a very good coffee, my favorite being the cinnamon twist latte - in fact sometimes I come here just because I crave that ☺️. I feel it could be a much more exciting place than it is with a little bit of work -. The furniture seems a little worn and I feel that more effort could be put into how furniture is laid out, it feels a little jumbled. However with a little effort this place could be made very welcoming and comfortable - it certainly has the potential! But don't let this keep you away, the coffee is very enjoyable and the crepes are excellent and the service is always very good.

Pros: spacious and cozy and nice indoor. Watching the baking lady so closely and having coffee felt so peaceful and relaxing. Nice outdoor seating. Food is tasty. Drinks are good.
Cons: not much options of food. Plastic dishes are clearly reducing the service quality.

There's nothing special to say about food. My bagel looked not tempting at all, tasted about the same. The grilled sandwich was too greasy, so we were able to eat only half of it.
Tables could use some good cleaning - they were very sticky.

Great local cafe, perfect for brunch. Serving all kinds of coffee, croissants, sandwiches. The highlight are crepes. Vegetarian choices.

The sandwiches were lacking, small size and skimping on the protein, and my party got a bagel, sourdough, and croissant sandwiches with the same experience with all three. The drinks were okay, nothing special, very sweet though so I’d recommend getting half sweet. The atmosphere is very white middle class, nothing wrong with that, but just to note. The person taking our order kept forgetting some things and didn’t offer to warm up the egg bite or pastries we got. When we asked they were warmed in a microwave so the egg got rubbery. I probably won’t be back

PLEASE PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU BRING BACK THE ICE OREO RAGE! It was the best drink I've ever had, and my go to order; it brought me back to BLVD multiple times a week! Everything I've ordered since has been good, but not as amazing as my oreo rage. Also I love the paganini panini, it changed my life (almost as much as my Oreo rage R.I.P. 3). Will be coming back for nostaligia and that panini, but since the discontinuation of my beloved Oreo rage, BLVD has been demotes from my #1 most loved and regularly craved coffee shop to a coffee shop that I simply enjoy on occasion.

OK I found this place after searching in the Almaden area of San Jose for a local coffee shop. (Starbucks is permanently voted off my island; they'll never get another cent of my money:)

Heard they were a quaint locals shop with an outstanding Mexican Mocha, of which I've only had one ever.

Other reviews said the MM was great. They were right...

It was OUTSTANDING. Great drink, quiet place, cool vibe. I could stay here and work for hours while consuming 2 or 3 of these Mexican Mochas.

Stop by and hang out - you'll love it here.

I love the flavors of their Mexican Mocha! It’s sweet and spicy. They have fresh pastries daily which are made in-house by their Baker. She’s phenomenal!

I know this is just a staff issue but it was a but intriguing when both baristas exchanged looks before asking me what i meant by the phrase “single origin coffee.” After picking up a bag of their chiapas, mexico beans and explaining that this constituted single origin, they only could do a pour over, not expresso… it looks like they have a bakery there that possible is more active when covid isn’t ramping up again.
I dunno. I was hoping it would be a 3rd wave coffee place but was less then impressed on that front. And they closed at 4:00 pm! Our visit was cut short…

Probably my favorite coffee shop of all time! Great food, drinks, and atmosphere!