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Cafe in downtown Berkeley with a separate vegan menu with dishes including a soyrizo breakfast burrito, an omelette, nachos, a burger, and a roasted veggie sandwich. Became vegetarian in early 2020. Reported closed January 2021.


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9 Reviews

First Review by MelodyVeganJoy

villain

Points +8088

Vegan
26 Sep 2020

Cozy cafe

People's Cafe is awesome. The staff is helpful, the menu is varied, and everything I've tried is delicious. I really like the vegan ramen, beyond sausage pesto, and vegan soyrizo burrito. The vibe of the place is always fun and I like the music they play. The other patrons are always cool too.

Pros: Many vegan options

Cons: Not everything is vegan

Jtorvs

Points +109

Vegan
16 Jan 2020

Lovely vegan breakfast food, great price, fast

If you need a classic breakfast food made vegan, bagel sandwiches, burritos, this is the place. Really tasty, good price, and speedy service for fresh food.

UPDATE: they are pushing hard to be meat free. About 75% of the menu can be made vegan so now there are sandwiches and yogurt granola bowls, ramen too !!

sugz

Points +436

Vegan
11 Jan 2020

The omelette was great!

The vegan farmers omelette is bomb! Very wholesome full of veggies, side salad and toast.
The cafe is very Berkeley: tons of students and hippy types. The place has kombucha on tap! How awesome is that? I will be back for sure!

Pros: Separate vegan menu, The quality of the food is very good, Kombucha bar!

Cons: They serve meat too :(

Koolina2011

Points +69

Vegan
05 Jan 2020

Great Vegan Breakfast

So happy to see a separate Vegan menu. I had the mushroom spinach bagel and my boyfriend had the soyrizzo burrito. Both options were super tasty and we would come back if we were in the area again.

ohioveghead

Points +107

Vegan
06 Oct 2019

Separate vegan menu

Good breakfast. Vegan Soyrizo breakfast burrito was very good. The eggless mushroom bagel was kinda bland.

Pros: Lots of vegan options

MadeInWonderland

Points +259

Vegan
25 Sep 2019

If I was local I would go here all the time!

We had a plan to split a waffle and a vegan breakfast burrito, but sadly their waffle maker was down. The breakfast burrito was delicious though, and we got a vegan pumpkin muffin that was also very good. I had a sun blossom kombucha, which was surprisingly low sugar, and very refreshing on such a hot day.

Pros: Lots of vegan options, Very tasty, Friendly staff

leahk

Points +278

Vegan
27 Jul 2019

Ok, would try again

Glad to have a place nearby with veg and non-veg offerings where I can take visitors. Appreciate their zero-waste consciousness. Got the soyrizo burrito and wish it were better. Very salty and not offset by fresh ingredients. Just potatoes and cooked tomato with the soyrizo and spicy sauce. I like how the burrito was grilled on the outside to make it crispy, though. The burrito came on the plate with nothing else. For the $10.50 price tag, I think they could have added a few greens to the plate to make it more attractive and to add some freshness.

The lemon poppyseed donut was tasty, but was more like a donut-shaped muffin in texture. I would return to try other options.

Pros: Several vegan offerings, Good for vegan breakfast/brunch with non-vegans

Cons: Mediocre taste, Expensive, Not attractively plated

badgirlsvegan

Points +2040

Vegan
11 Jul 2019

Vegan bagel was good but ...

The utensils were slightly unclean with food scraps but such is the case with mass dishwashing endeavors sometimes. The vegan farmer’s omelette was so scant and disappointing though that if I had ordered that alone, I would have given this place one or two stars. Luckily, I liked the vegan mushroom bagel a lot and the potato nachos were good (simple enough to make at home but good).

MelodyVeganJoy

Points +7334

Vegan
12 Nov 2018

Lovely cafe for work, breakfast, or lunch

Let's start with the food: they have a separate vegan menu for entrees and lots of vegan pastries. I got the vegan breakfast potato nachos, which were super tasty and reasonably priced.

The atmosphere was super awesome and chill. It's a great space to work with a laptop (free wifi and strips of outlets), catch up with a friend, go on a blind date etc. There were board games and books to help pass the time. The staff were super friendly and very excited about their vegan options.

I loved this place and am excited to go back again.

Pros: Vegan entrees, pastries, loose leaf tea, Free wifi, Lots of outlets




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