Davis is home to many cozy little cafés. They make a great alternative to Shields Library for studying, provide entertainment, comfy chairs, and also, of course, tons of coffee. The ones listed under bakeries make their own baked goods (or claim to!). Many cafes make good ideas for dates.
Some cafés are open late into the night time.
Cafés
A corner to myself
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Bio Brew — A Sodexho-owned establishment that sells Starbucks coffee and other assorted food and drink. It is located on the Davis Campus in the Sciences Laboratory Building building.
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Chamonix — A smaller coffee place located in Anderson Plaza. Offers free WiFi.
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Ciocolat — More for wine and desserts than coffee, this is a better place to bring your date than to study.
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The Coffee House — Central hub of campus that sells both drip coffee (two locations) and espresso drinks (around the corner). Depending on what's open, you can get a wide variety of food. WiFi via Moobilenet, but spotty at best.
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Common Grounds — A fairly generic coffee shop in South Davis. Offers free WiFi and lots of comfy chairs.
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Delta of Venus — Where everyone who's cool goes to have breakfast on the weekend. Focuses more on food than coffee. Offers free WiFi.
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Espresso Road — an espresso stand serving the Farmers Market on Saturdays (and maybe Wednesdays too?).
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Farmer's Kitchen Cafe at Natural Food Works — Bio-regional organic food, gluten/casein free/vegan & vegetarian friendly, free range chicken/organic coffee, and teas/ freeWiFi. More like a restaurant than a café.
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Law School's Coffee Kiosk — The Law School is next to Mrak Hall, down by the arboretum. The Coffee Kiosk started up in August of 2005 and is open during regular school hours.
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Mishka's Cafe — Graduate students. Lots of them. And their laptops (free WiFi)
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Peet's Coffee — (2 locations) Sticks to basics (coffee, tea, espresso). The North Davis one shares space with Noah's Bagels.
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Seattle's Best — inside of Borders Books
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Stone's Cafe & Catering — Great food and coffee in Mace Ranch. Stone's offers free WiFi.
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3rd & U Cafe — Restaurant and coffee
Bakeries
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The ASUCD Coffee House Bakery — serves coffee, tea and sweets (cobbler, coffee cake, etc.)
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Konditorei — Austrian bakery and cafe, free WiFi and some of the best espresso in Davis. Weird location, very out of the way. Opens at 6:00 Tue thru Fri.
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Noah's Bagels — the well-known New York Jewish-style deli.
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The Posh Bagel — A variety of bagels, breads and pastries baked every day. You can get any toasted bagel or bread for 99 cents, or you can add a large variety of toppings all the way up to full sandwiches.
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Nugget at Covell — supermarket with bakery and coffee bar. Coffee Bar hours: 6am - 8pm. You can choose from at least 5 different coffees before noon and you can get a melita single cup of coffee of your choice at anytime.
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Village Bakery — café and artisan-bread bakery, open at 5:30.
Former cafés in Davis
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MU CoHo Kiosk — This place no longer exists, thanks to ASUCD CoHo management. JillBenciWoodward worked there.
Outside of Davis
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Steady Eddy's Coffee House — Located in Winters at 5 East Main Street. Serves Equator organic coffee and a variety of sandwiches and assorted snacks. Open from 6:30am -2:30pm. Closed Wednesdays. Many Davis bicyclists stop there for a break. Excellent coffee.
