Cool Beans Coffee Co

Incredible experience! Such a cute space upstairs and the coffee and food are amazing. I highly recommend the sausage, egg, and cheese croissant and the Fantasia! Definitely a must-try if you're in the Columbia area. Lots of college students, so just be prepared. It's full of students with sweatshirts and laptops. Not too many coffee snobs or hipsters.

Exciting range of drinks (ice pumpkin chai is my fave year round) and the service is very calm and nice. Lots of comfy places to sit and get work done. This place got me through freshman year!

I'm a little bit of a workaholic so I'm always in small (NOT STARBUCKS) coffee shops and this one is definitely one of my favorites. Location is close to my home and the atmosphere is good to be in for work, reading or just enjoying a quick cup of coffee with friend(s). The staff is wonderful. I've been in the customer service industry for 7 plus years and I have to say that I have never had a staff member here be rude or short with me not one time and I come here A LOT! The only thing that I think that anyone could complain about this place is the weird parking situation but that's easy to work around so 5 stars for this place! would've given more if it were possible. Haha

Amazing staff and service. Great coffee and food. However, the owner is frequently here and is very rude. Will ignore customers, give dirty looks, and has approached customers to tell them to use less milk in their coffee (probably to save her money) and other similar comments. They’d have 5 stars from me if it weren’t for the owner’s attitude. I almost left today as she let the line extend as she took her time doing dishes and ignoring the line. I would understand if there were many dishes to be done but there were not, and she took her sweet time in completing a simple task.

Cool Beans is just one of those classic college town establishments where you can relax and/or work over some good food and great coffee. It has been around forever! I used to go there as a kid with my dad and it's cool now to go as a college student and feel like I belong haha. It's affordable, easy and friendly! With good veggie options. I like the portobello wrap!

Cute little coffee shop. Staff is very friendly and the atmosphere is perfect for reading/studying/getting work done. Prices are fair for the size drinks you're given. The iced Thai Coffee is THE BEST coffee drink I've ever had. I'm obsessed.

The staff here is always super friendly! Lovely atmosphere with urban laid back college vibes. The coffee and food always tastes great 😊

Very friendly and delicious!! I ordered a iced vanilla latte and it was so good I decided to order a hot vanilla latte and the lady forgot to put the syrup in it, however I didn’t know she forgot to put it in since every coffee place is different and i thought maybe their lattes weren’t as sweet as the iced lattes and it was just unsweet. she kindly came back and gave me a fresh hot latte with my syrup :) very nice! Most people would’ve just forgot and left it at that!

Enjoyed the coffee, the espresso could be better. Loved that they make theme drinks!

Obviously artist, and hipster, and college-y... But friendly service as though it's just your neighborhood coffee shop. Support the local businesses! Music overhead isn't very loud, soothing in the background, great art on the wall for sale. Very casual, homey and not pretentious! Has plenty of character.