Coffees pretty good, and so is the matcha. Service is gentle and quick. It can get a bit noicy, however.5/5.

This was a great coffee spot, with incredible sandwiches, tasty coffee and fresh croissants! The staff was polite, patient and accommodating. Unfortunately, they have permanently closed. Please post this official notice at your door/website to let your loyal customers know whats happened.

Great coffee, the pour over is very flavorful, they use Rwandan beans. Great sandwich and light pastry selection. Good cafe spot to work, as well.

Not amazing, not bad. The staff were fairly short, boarding on rude. The coffee is strong and good. Lots of seating and plugs to charge devices, good for studying. Prices and service make me unlikely to return.

The spice in the chai latte has an edge to it.

Stopped by here on a cold day to get a latte. I was a little happy and also a little disappointed. Lets see why!First, the cafe is attached to a university, can be easy to miss if youre driving by. The ambiance is quite nice. It was a sunny day, even though it was freezing outside, and sun rays were shining on the chairs by the window. Looked so inviting! Many chairs and tables especially if you want to sit and work. And thats precisely what a lot of people were doing. We wandered around and stood for a good 15 minutes before a couple seats opened up.Went up to the counter to get me a latte. I had a few questions regarding the flavors. Every one of these lattes used artificial flavors, nothing house-made. Sob. So I decided to get the honey cinnamon one (they use actual honey and actual cinnamon, yay). I told them it was for here, but the cashier still picked up a paper-plastic cup. This may seem like a small thing but were trying to minimize our trash in all of our actions. So I found it strange that even though I explicitly mentioned it was for here and they have ceramic mugs, I was going to be given coffee in a cup which may as well last for eternity on this planet. Anyway, Im glad I could request the cashier again that I want it for here in a ceramic mug, please.The latte itself was okay, I wouldnt go out of my way to visit. Also, not a single smile during this whole encounter, from start to finish.Pro tip: It looks like there is free parking out back but it doesnt belong to the cafe. However, there is metered parking on the street or a paid parking lot out behind the university.

Grilled cheese and smoothie were so good! Not pricey either!! Totally recommend!

Best coffee and cozy Cafe near Porter Square! Plenty of room to social distancing as well. Friendly staff and good food too.

Great place to work or relax. Their coffees and teas are really nice as well as their pastries and smoothies.Make sure to check out Tokai, the Japanese Souvenir shop, while youre here.

Great coffee, ethical business plan, comfy atmosphere.

Really friendly staff, wonderful coffee and smoothies, and excellent space to work or sit and relax. Very highly recommended!

Nice independent coffee place

Free wifi, many outlets, and a really good Prince-inspired lemonade.Theyre not unusually good for a coffee shop, but they are right on my way to do laundry, so I occasionally stop for a drink (and cash) which makes that whole ordeal a little more fun.What I really enjoy is the space. When I have time (and no covid restrictions) I love to sit inside—they have great seating options and its easy to focus on work or a book. Bourbons been good to me!

My blueberry muffin only had ONE blueberry in it!! What a rip-off!

Coffee is amazing, staff are great, place is clean, so many options.

Good coffee. Nice walk to this shop.

If you like coffee that is not bitter or sour, like we do, then this is your place! We had two-shot Americanos and they were very smooth and delicious. Service was great, interior is modern and welcoming. Lots of seating including comfy chairs and a sofa. Highly recommended!

The vanilla iced coffee is very good, and the vibe is very chill. Might take a minute to get your order in but theyre very nice!

Good coffee, all from Rwanda which is amazing. In the spirit of fall I tried their Pumpkin Spice Latte its quite good, not as sweet as a Starbucks one but Im sure they could add something to it if you wanted to make it sweeter. Very large space, lots of places to sit and many power outlets.

Bourbon Coffee is a cool spot. Right next to Lesley University, its a great place to stop by if you are a student there. They have a decent selection of coffee and food, and I really enjoyed their breakfast sandwich. I liked the seating, especially the larger wooden table - although my sister got a splinter sitting on the bench, so watch out for that.

Bourbon is a warm, tranquil establishments tucked away in Porter Square. There are amble tables and chairs to sit, and cute decorative couches in one corner. Ive gone on weeknights and during the day on weekends. I never encountered a line longer than 5-6 people, which is a plus! They have unique seasonal lattes, like the lavender latte, which is delicious. I could spend a day here on one of those couches, reading a nice book.

Good study spot! Plenty of seating, WiFi, and good music.Really love the authentic decor and classic coffee shop atmosphere. Plus all of their coffee is proudly sourced from small farms in Rwanda. Everything Ive tried here has been excellent!Just make sure to specify you want a mug if youre staying, since they give our paper cups by default

This is open to the public almost all the time, but for graduation and the night/day following admission required a ticket or student id. Once again, there were people who didnt think the rules applied to them and then when they werent allowed in, there was an unpleasant conversation.

Fun, super friendly staff and ambience. The music can be anywhere from pop to classic rock to dance music in one day. Great place to get a coffee and a sandwich as well as grab a seat and jump on your laptop as well. Or if you dont have time for a sandwich, just grab a pastry and theyll warm it up and give it to you faster than you can pay. Awesome hot summer day stop too, smoothies and iced coffees and teas, as well as delicious specialty iced drinks. If youre in the area for a bite or looking for a quick coffee and snack for the road, this place is perfect.

Great coffee and food and great service! Will continue to frequent this location even when Cafe Nero opens across the street. I always prefer a smaller place to an international chain!

We only got a couple of lattes and they were fine. Nice wood interior, but nothing else that screamed uniqueness to differentiate it for me. Would go back if in the area, but would not seek it out.

Great coffee and yummy wraps. Great work space with tons of options for any style of studying (tables, couches, benches, people watching, secluded, etc)

Very cute place. Smoothies are great. Coffee is so so. Food is good.

This place is fine. Like aggressively fine. Not good enough to stop for, good enough to avoid going to the Petes thats opening up across the street.

Miss this place. Used to go all the time when I lived near porter. A little pricey but delicious and very balanced drinks there. The baristas know what they are doing.

Nice little coffee shop. They were fairly knowledgeable about gluten and dairy allergies and very willing to accommodate with their drinks. Didnt try any of the goodies there because they are harder to make gluten free for celiac people.

Love the decor, the friendly staff and of course the eats and drinks. My favorite is when I am able to sit in the comfy arm chairs and sofas. I take friends here often and they always feel like Im taking them to my own living room. I also like the lighting. Very intimate and colorful. Feels very private.

My wife and I ate breakfast at Cafe Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The restaurant is small and at 7:30 AM, when it opens, very quiet. The service is excellent, almost joyful. Every request was cheerfully delivered. In fact, the high quality service goes a long way to making breakfast here a real pleasure.

Great pace to go for a well made cup of coffee. They have seasonal selections as well which is nice, as well as very good sandwiches and baked goods. However, the prices are inflated, most likely stemming from their fair trade coffee. Which isnt a bad thing, fair trade is good. But being located inside a University campus, this is more a place to go for an every-now-and-then fix where you can spend 8 dollars on a medium coffee and a sandwich. But if you visit this location daily, you will quickly find your bank account suffering.

What a fantastic find! I used to go to Bourbon Coffee when I lived in Rwanda & was so happy to see it at Porter Square. Great coffee, comfortable space and really friendly staff.

I wasnt a fan of my coffee here. I do appreciate that its all fair trade coffee beans and a good place to work on a couch with wifi for a bit in a campus center.

Yummy bagels and smoothies! Great atmosphere for studying, catching up on work or with friends. Chai tea is also bomb and they have a lovely staff

Its similar to a Starbucks, but an independent coffee shop. Very good coffee drinks and related foods. Nice, cozy ambiance. Some comfy casual seating. I would choose it over Starbucks. Great place to bring a laptop, our to meet up with a friendfriend.

Love this coffee shop! The Amaretto Dream + Pistachio and Cream lattes are personal favorites, and the latte art is awesome. Not a recommended spot to work out of... if your work is mostly online (wifi is free for 1 hour only), but great spot to grab a coffee with a friend.

Delicious!

Wonderful selection of baked goods, sandwiches and tasty coffee drinks. Absolutely love Bourbon they are my go-to place for a quick pick-me-up when I am at Lesley for class. The staff are always helpful and friendly, too.

An interesting assortment of beverages both hot and cold. super friendly and knowledgeable staff. plenty of places to sit and plug your devices in should you need to get some work done.

I am disgusted. Today the barista kid climbed up on the food prep counter wearing his grotty work shoes. Walked all up and down, to reach a high shelf.I suggested that this is unsanitary (and unsafe) and he should use a ladder, his reply was, were pretty good at cleaning. He then used the counter to serve up a coffee to a customer, no sanitization happened.Cambridge board of health and OSHA violations all at once.

Good coffee. Good vegan banana muffin. Good table. Good chair. Good job.

This place ran out of eggs... at 10am. Not really sorry about it, I had a spinach croissant the I was proposed to have warmed but too warm to make it enjoyable. I wont stop again

A great all around coffee shop. Its not the best you will ever have, but its definitely a few steps above average. Espresso drinks a good and they have a large menu of other drinks as well. This location has ample seating and two hours of free fast internet.

If you like sugar and milk then youll like the lattes here ... I couldnt really taste the coffee at all. Maybe stick with espresso or drip coffee. That said, theres not a lot of good coffee places in Boston, anyway, so this place is no worse than the others. On the upside, they have free wifi and a lot of seats - although on a Saturday afternoon it was completely full. Its half a block away from the Porter Square stop so its easily accessible.

Has great coffee, reasonable prices, a great atmosphere and boardgames you can play. Highly recommend

It has a really warm and welcoming atmosphere and its really good to work at. the light inside of the cafe is nice as well.

Great tasting coffee. I ordered a cortado ☺️

It is awesome that their coffee is fair trade! I go there when I need a pick-me-up before class. I love the atmosphere and the people :)

The décor in the front of the shop was nice. The staff were doing the best they could to process the orders quickly.

An excellent location for great coffee, teas and snacks the sandwiches are really good, pastries are good too. Friendly atmosphere, productive feeling while you meet or catch up there.

Great coffee. Free internet (a lot of places in Cambridge charge for internet - a growing trend which I despise). Plenty of seating at nice, big wooden tables. Friendly staff. Pastries look good, but I did not try yet.

Honestly one of the best cups of coffee Ive had in my 51 years of life!

Triple espresso machiatto had no milk and was not even the volume of a single espresso shot. When we asked the staff if this was the correct order for a $5 Triple espresso macchiato, they said Thats right. I dont know what to tell you. These are our prices and continued mumbling under their breath. Needless to say, we will not be returning.

Good cafe to sit and work with a decent selection of baked goods and drinks. Ample seating so its rarely impossible to find a seat and a number of outlets.

Bourbon Coffee is the only place I will go to work on my papers. Excellent people providing excellent coffee. The physical space inside the cafe is open and the environment and atmosphere are amazing!

Good hot sandwiches, especially grilled cheese deluxe. Coffee is also good, but little bite sour flavor.

When you need coffee, and youre standing next to Bourbon Coffee, Id say its a pretty good chance youll be pleased with it. Sort of a new joint (Im the first reviewer, for chrissakes), but the coffee list is extensive, its very spacious, its pretty well-attended, and the coffee aint crap. Done deal.

The best iced coffee and pastries/bagels with quick service. It is reasonably priced, the atmosphere is relaxed with comfy seats, but there are a lot of students and WiFi hoggers, can be difficult to stay and sit sometimes.

Excellent coffee, fun atmosphere, conveniently located right near Porter Square!

Food is awesome! Just wish it could be a little faster.. they are awesome though.

Ive had a mocha and lemonade here and both are delicious. Im usually here with a group of 5+ for a comics meetup and the staff is super accommodating and friendly.

Great service and breakfast food

Good coffee and not too pricey, but every time I go the wifi is so slow that I switch to tethering from my phone.

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Excellent coffee, pastries, food, atmosphere, people. Only complaint is that their wifi is terribly unstable and flickers on and off to a maddening degree, so its near impossible to get work done if you need wifi. If you dont, its the perfect place.

Chai was fine. Decent amount of workspace. Ambiance was nothing special but gets the job done.

Very pretty inside. The honey cinnamon latte reminded me of cinnamon toast crunch cereal, but it wasnt crazy sweet.

Great store. Fun vibe, delicious drinks. Lots of space to sit.

A waitress with glasses working in this coffee shop has a very bad service attitude. She threw the wrap in front of me. And whispered to discuss me with a waiter. Very very very terrible experience.

A wonderful place to unwind. Great staff and great coffee.

Great place to work. Friendly and welcoming staff, private bathroom, great coffee, plenty of tables and room to use a laptop.

My go-to working cafe. Great fancy coffee drinks

Great espresso! Theres a lot of tables to study and theres a lot of milk options

Love the coffee! Large space and while its busy the line goes quick.

Amazing food, very clean, great service

Good atmosphere, good coffee, perfect for studying or meeting someone

Really nice place to get a delicious coffee and baked goods, then work comfortably without feeling like they dont want you there or like their looking at you as if youve been there too long for just one cup of coffee.

A cozy cafe that still has comfortable casual seating. Steps from Porter Sq.

A nice addition to the Porter Exchange after a long- awaited opening. Im not a coffee drinker, but their chai lattes and Arnold Palmers are my favorites. I have yet to try any of the baked treats on display, but they do look delicious. I wouldnt camp out here for a while, but like Shannon said, its a good place to stop by and grab a coffee.

Great comfy coffee shop with abundant outlets and fast wifi. A huge variety of delicious drinks and large sandwiches.

Hip place to go for breakfast or lunch has a good vibe with unique food and Specialty coffee.

Great coffee and great pasteries. Morning done!

Better than Starbucks in every way. Not on par with the third-wave hipster places like Simons, Barismo, Barrington, or Pavement. This applies across the board: the roasts, the barista skills, the food, the ambiance. If you are in this neighborhood and Simons is not open, come here. If you have to catch a train, come here. If you go to Lesley, you will go here. If you want comparable quality from a locally-based, non-chain establishment, Cafe Zing in Porter Square Books is a good shot. They pull them, you know?

Nice little cafe right next to Porter square

Extremely rude. Wouldnt recommend or go again

Latte was very good, as well as the chipolte chicken sandwich (more like a pinini)

Pretty average coffee. Service is the main drawback here. Very unfriendly and cold service at the counter, borderline rude. Also caught them passive aggressively calling patrons a-holes very loudly because they didn’t take their coffee cup up to the counter when they left.

The venue and coffee is pretty awesome. A lot of available spots for working with your laptop!

Fast service, plenty of space to work

Coffee shop with good coffee and a nice atmosphere. It is a little difficult to find and if you plan on parking out back make sure you get a receipt to validate it.

Great coffee, friendly staff, love the decor. I could see myself coming here and setting up shop for the day.

Here every monday morning and love the delicious drinks. Purple Rain is a favorite as is the mexican hot chocolate!

The best in Potter Square

Pleasant coffee shop with a lot of room to work or read. A little weird how its basically tucked into a mall, but it works.

Great atmosphere, good coffee and food selections, WiFi and lots of cheap parking behind it.

Bourbon is one of my favorite cafes in Cambridge (I think iyo in Davis may be its only rival). It has plenty of space to work or chat - abundant outlets as well as comfy couches and tables. Their coffee is a little above average with some variability in quality. Their vast, fresh bakery selection and ample seating sets them apart from most cafes in Cambridge.Wifi is free, and in the year Ive been a patron of Bourbon (since Dec 2013), Ive never had to buy or use a card for WiFi.

Great smoothies. Great seating areas.