Perfect spot for coffee on the go or to sit down and enjoy a pastry/light breakfast! I really enjoyed my cappuccino and wish I had time to stop by one more time before heading home!

Very appropriate amount of bacon. Myself and my third cousin Diane had an absolute ball. Kudos to employee Sophia Blake on wonderful service! In my opinion, she should get a million dollars.

Loved their Pesto Bomb and chocolate chip cookie.

My first coffee stop when I first visited Nashville! Such a fun environment & big space. The iced mocha was great! Very creamy & strong but not too overpowering of a coffee flavor! I dream about sitting on the patio of Bongo Java, and drinking this coffee lol

This place is pretty dirty I would be careful about eating here. I have no idea how these people pass an Ever Clean inspection.

Note from a Nashville native who has been going to Bongo since birth. Its a best kept secret for easy and excellent breakfast and coffee hang out spot. Celebrated many occasions at Bongo. ❤ Always in my heart. May we one day find the Nun Bun.

Extremely disappointed in Bongo Java. I have been customer for 4 years now and have enjoyed it up until this moment. I was trying to support all of my local businesses in such a difficult time but I will no longer be supporting Bongo. I got a bagel from proper and bought $5 cup of coffee from bongo but was asked to leave because I bought a bagel from proper (I was sitting outside). I advise you to buy your $5 cup of coffee at a place that will let you enjoy it outside of their restaurant.

Being at Bongo feels like home. The staff is always so, so kind and the food never disappoints. With an iced matcha and a bagel sandwich from Bongo, Im ready for anything :) Il be a patron as long as I live in Nashville!

I love Bongo Java and the space it creates. I’ve never received any microaggressions for being queer in this coffee shop and I only deduct a star because they never have any light roast coffees and their medium roasts are still pretttttyyyy darkI’ve been stopping here occasionally for 12yrs now and i hope it’s here for many more.

They have good coffee and food. Usually you have decent chances of finding a seat and they have a (free!) parking lot out back. If you need a space to work, meet, or chill for bit Bonjo Java is great. Lastly, and contrary to some folks reviews, I’ve only ever had good service.

Really nice people. Excellent vegan donuts (get there early because they dont last). Solid espresso drinks. Good, strong drip coffee. Already been here 3 times.

The oldest coffee shop in Nashville! What a wonderful atmosphere, delicious coffee and a breakfast menu that is amazing! You definitely must visit here. Cool merchandise, too! Then stroll across the street to Belmont University and Belmont mansion. Gorgeous!

Very good coffee and food in a good location to go to Nashville or for Belmont University students. I highly recommend their mocha which pairs nicely with the Egg McBongo with apple wood bacon. Though it is expensive, it is only as expensive as Starbucks which is a major step down in quality and flavor.

The absolute WORST customer service I have ever experienced! I loved Bongo Java but now I will be buying my overpriced coffee at a place that respects their customers and offers EXCEPTIONAL customer service. If you’re looking for overpriced average coffee and TERRIBLE customer service then this is the place for you...otherwise save your money and time.

Improv is upstairs so many laughs! This was our 2nd family trip and it was great. Fun for all ages!

Great shaded outdoor seating area! I only wish they were open later (maybe closing at 2:30pm is just when the university is out for the summer?).

Amazing coffee and hands down the best bacon, egg, and cheese bagel I have ever had! Amazing

The staff are friendly and the service is fast. Try a forest moon latte it’s deliciously Smokey and the blueberry almond cake is scrumptious!

Was staying around the corner from this great little cafe and ate here for 6 mornings out of 7! I just had to keep coming back. The breakfasts were great - very tasty and the coffee is fine! Nice and cheap (compared with Boston) and nice cheerful service. Place is obviously popular as was full each time I was in!

Delicious coffee (try the Mochahontas!) And a super delicious egg scramble with hash browns browned on top to perfection. Pleasant outdoor seating. Good service. Definitely try it out if youre looking for a cozy spot to have coffee and a quick breakfast.

Delicious food and chill environment. Diet and dog friendly.

Love the coffee from this place.

Great atmosphere, friendly service and good food!

Wonderful coffee & food in a comforting welcoming atmosphere. A Nashville staple!

The staff is rude and mean regarding policy, but are prompt at delivering my hot chocolate. The hot chocolate is pretty delicious though.

Hash browns are exceptional as well as the Breakfast Burrito!

Location is good but can get packed and parking options are tough.

I was a frequent flyer at Bongo Javas back in the late 90s and never once had a bad experience. Despite so many economical changes since then, I was delighted to tears to see that the quality of service, food, coffees, teas, and atmosphere hasnt diminished at ALL! Many, many happy memories there. Love you, Bongo, always have and always will! Please never change - you set the bar for real coffee shops, and not even a Mind Eraser can take that away!

A bit overpriced for my taste in breakfast foods, but I suppose that goes with the demographic they serve. The food itself is quite good and this is a great place to either do work while sipping coffee or to have a meeting for business or pleasure. While not the most budget-friendly for me, I would still recommend it.

Very clean, functional, pleasant space, with good service, and good quality coffee. Gotta say though, I have some serious nostalgia for the older, pre-renovations funkiness, heterogeneity and grime. I miss the days when this Bongo Java was the handout space for misfits, goths, and hippies, whereas it is now the prime establishment for well dressed Belmont students and profs. The atmosphere has changed. Probably good for business, but not for ambiance. RIP old Bongo Java. RIP Nun-Bun. RIP old funky Belmont Blvd.

Spent $11 and left hungry, service was not great

Amazzzing drinks & love the laid back atmosphere

Great stylish, trendy, hipster, artsy coffee shop. Old house converted into a coffee shop. They have lots of great gourmet coffee choices, and the red velvet cafe is amazing. They have local art on the walls, and indoor/outdoor seating. There are lots of college students who hang out there because it is close to Belmont. I highly recommend Bongo.

Bongo Java is my every weekend spot for money making. They have a very good coffee and a large selection of brews.Their menu is varied and healthy.They have an all day breakfast menu that is great.The waiters are cool and wear a smile always.The location is also great. Minutes from Belmont campus so you can have a coffee and enjoy the campus park.

Great coffee, quiet atmosphere

Very good latte. Got ours to go so didnt have a chance to enjoy the atmosphere. Patio looked really nice. Barista was very friendly and provided quick service.

Great coffee and atmosphere! Will be back once the pandemic is over

Great coffee and other beverages here. I recently tried their grey skies drink, which is espresso with bergamot and coconut cream among other ingredients, and it was fantastic! Definitely recommend the iced version.Do note that they do not do pour overs here if that is something youre looking for, but they have plenty of other options.

Your basic good coffee shop! It has what you need and is always busy with students! Great place to work or study!

My friends and I always hang out here either to do a group study or to just simply chit-chat. The staff is welcoming and considerate. What I like about their coffee shop is the ambiance it brings whenever you enter it. It makes us feel awake and at the same time, enjoy ourselves with a cup of well-prepared coffee and desserts.

Its a good place if you wanted to just get a coffee and meet a friend, but I usually head over there to get work done which means I need reliable WiFi and theirs was just horrible. So personally, I wouldnt go back.Other than that, the place is really cute and just walking distance from the Belmont University campus-- very convenient!

Loved the Big, Bad, Black Bean Burger (vegetarian)

I come here often and sat in the back today. It was a terrible experience. I got my food and a worker went out the back door with a cigarette in his mouth. They closed the back door then opened it several times as I got my food and wafted the strong smell of smoke into the restaurant. I had to leave it smelled so bad and there was no where else to sit so I couldn’t eat my food. I am not impressed.

Love Bongo Javas selections both food and coffee-wise! Not much parking (but thats Belmont Blvd for you) and the entryway area is a bit of a bottleneck, but its a great place to grab a bit of caffeine with a friend or your Mom (like me)!

We really enjoyed our late breakfast here! Several great vegan options, friendly staff, and a nice atmosphere.

The quintessential college place. You can still get eggs, hash and toast with a coffee for a college price. Good art and great folks.

This place is amazing. It has some of the best hot chocolate and bagel sandwiches Ive ever had. Also I can normally find places to park.

Trendy cafe frequented by students and professional for a quick bite or coffee. The ambience is good but the food could be a hit or miss. The veggie scramble was quite oily, bland and served on a dirty plate. The bagel sandwich was amazing, though they missed the avocado which I had ordered.

For a fun drink, there are unique espresso-based house recipes, but also really cool teas. My favorite is the seasonal Grey Skies. They also have their own beans and my favorite coffees come from here. There’s a single origin of the month, and also many different blends, of which my favorite is Mystic Brew. Inside there is limited seating during the school year due to its popularity among college students, many of whom live across the street in dorms (it can get QUITE packed).There are some house pastries but also pops from local shop Las Paletas. Parking is limited and parallel parking, so it’s best to walk here.

Awesome theater located on the second floor, even better coffee. Also, the only place I know that sells Yerba!

Great little coffee spot. I used to like the wooden tables. Now they expanded the building out onto the porch. I suppose I can understand that, they can fit more customers inside now. I still liked the tables on the porch.

Great place, great latte?

Bryan and I had great coffee and hot chocolate with an amazing brownie and met a fellow Texan and made new friends!

A great cup of coffee from one of Nashvilles first coffee houses. But super busy weekdays all morning long due to proximity to Belmont University. But the space is clean and bright and the patio outside is huge. Plan on parking on one of the side streets rather than cruising Belmont Blvd hoping to find a spot.

Great breakfast foods and coffee. Outdoor dining. All ages of folks except children. Belmont University across the street.

Shows upstairs are very well curated and are worth seeing. Great coffee with fun rotating seasonal specials. Bongo Basic is one of the best breakfast/brunch deals in the area.

Awesome food and coffee. Friendly staff. I highly recommend this place.

#NashvilleStaple

Their drip coffee is decent while their espresso drinks are really good if you feel like treating yourself. It can get pretty busy during peak hours and seating can be limited sometimes. Their food is really good too.

So coffee shops need to have two things - especially good espresso/coffee drinks, and kitsch-ambience-vibe. The coffee at Bongo is good, but the coffee at Frothy Monkey is light years better. Ambience is lacking here, with a very sterile look - long waits for a plain white interior with no real tie to their name in look or design aesthetic. The staff were a bit cold, and just for my dollar, no real draw to bring me back and spend again. If you are locked into a particular region and not willing to walk/drive/bike/scooter somewhere else - meh - this place will do.

Great work and study spot. Food is good, coffee is sometimes a bit acidic. Lots of outlets for charging.

Bongo Java makes the best coffee in middle Tennessee. If youre hungry, try the breakfast burrito, its fantastic! (I order mine with no tortilla, though — its even better as an omelette!) Oh, and dont forget to go back on weekend evenings for improv comedy nights — you cant better spend ten bucks!

Good coffee; good breakfast; quiet enough to carry on a conversation. P.S.: The menu tells you breakfast is served all day. What it doesnt tell you is that the salmon plate, listed under lunch/dinner, is also available for breakfast. With capers, cream cheese, red onions, lettuce, tomato, smoked salmon, and the bagel of your choice, its favored by all our family from three years old through seventy!

Great brews with a decent selection for breakfast. The oatmeal is my go to. Nice place to stop in a chat with a friend. Or get some work done (good wifi).

Cool work/communal atmosphere with good price on coffee. The internet is pretty slow.

Its okay. They made the drinks good to go.

Great tea options. No gluten free bakery items when I was there, which is always a bummer.

Great food and coffee. Cool vibe. Usually pretty packed, especially on the weekends. Outdoor seating is really nice.

One of my fav breakfast places, consistently good. The place is super cute too and everyone is very helpful 💖

I had the best Mocha here.

Good: The food and drinks are decent. The location is convenient if your on Belmonts campus.Bad: Wifi is slow (I end up using my phone as a hotspot most of the time). Staff can be a little rude (not everyone but its been an issue enough times that I always question whether I should go back). The music is always way too loud and it makes it really difficult to get anything done or have a normal conversation with anyone.Overall: if there was a more convenient spot Id go there instead of Bongo but I can walk here so I guess thats why I keep going. And seriously, turn down the music.

I love this coffee shop!! They have such great, high quality coffee. Its expensive, but this is a good place to treat yoself!

Great tea and coffee options! They also have good food options, too with lots of gluten free options. Good breakfast place.

Pretty long wait for mostly just breakfast sandwiches, but they were good, so no regrets!

Eh its ok

Cool vibe, VERY collegiate, usually a line in the morning on the weekends. I like a few of the roasts they do. Food was very average to me but the coffee and the environment bumped it to a 4 start spot.

Fun and trendy place in Nashville on Belmont campus and close to Vanderbilt campus!Coffee is good and lots of seating inside and outside! Fun,Fun place!!!

Amazing. no words can describe the bliss that their sweet juices provide me

Great location, nice staff, and a Nashville staple. The coffee is very good, the food is great, and the atmosphere is perfect for reading, working, or talking.

Excellent service, food and coffee. Loved the Grey Skies latte I had

Decent service and consistently competitive roasting quality for the price. I always stock up whenever Im in town. Id venture to say its up there with some of our other big name roasters in the region like Quills and Sunergos in Louisville

Gets a little busy at times but the staff is pretty good about keeping the line moving.

What a great place in a fantastic location. Food was awesome, very tasty.

Great breakfast bagel sandwiches and great staff and service.

Very disgruntled and angry cashier.

Breakfast food is delicious and great atmosphere. parking can be a little annoying though

Cant wait to go back to Nashville for a cup. Super good coffee and real chill vibe!

Very disappointed. Reviews made me think it was going to be great. Below average food. My sandwhich tasted like fish and there was no fish on it. Also my eggs were not cooked all of the way through and had pieces of egg dripping from my sandwich. Then my husband said something about fish and I thought okay its not just me. Not the cleanest feeling atmosphere. Will never come back.

I go here to sit & work; for the quaint, bustling vibe; plenty of outlets; cool local artwork; & because theres enough seating that youre not staring at the barista the whole time. ...Oh, and for the cheap day-old pastry bin (while supplies last!). Imho, the coffees Ive had there were 3-4 stars, not standouts.

We went today (Sat 8/25, 6pm). Three of us: me, my wife and 13 year old daughter. There were no other customers at the counter or in line---and no one greeted us, or even acknowledged us. A girl and boy behind the counter were deep in conversation proving how interesting they are to each other. We stood there for 10 minutes trying to figure out what to order. The fragmented hipster menus on the wall are a bit maddening. It would have been a lot easier had there been an employee willing to help by making suggestions and have a general interest in our experience. When I asked if I could have the featured Laos coffee on the board as an iced coffee, I was informed-- oh, no...those are our bagged coffee for purchase. Ok ...so let me stand here longer and figure out an alternative. He mentions two that are available as iced so I grab the first one and say-- Ill take that. He didnt even ask about cream, sugar, flavor syrup. They gave me a black coffee on ice. Great. We got two baked items (brownie cheesecake, tiramisu cheesecake). They were flavorless, yuck.Two coffees, a water, two baked items=$17. Not worth it at all. The service was HORRENDOUS. This was our first visit since moving back to Nashville after 12 years. It is now an empty shell of what was once a great spot. It was dead, only a few other customers at tables. All the while people bustling on the street and in the new neighboring restaurants. The nun bun was stolen a while back and it apparently took the soul of the shop with it. The exterior renovation hack job to a classic architecture home really is off putting-- ghastly looking really.We wont be back. Too many other great options around to needlessly subject myself to an overall disappointing experience.

No parking, over priced. Charging $1.00 more for about 6oz of oatmilk is rediculous. Then our drink was made with regular milk and we told them oat...barista got rude and said I didnt pay for it and remade it. The cashier told him I did pay. Just rude. Tipped too soon.

Black coffee needs work. But everything else is incredible. Lattes and Juanita especially.

My family and I had the worst experience here last month. We ordered 4 hot chocolates and waited 20 minutes while the girl making them flirted with a guy who worked somewhere nearby. She was talking about her birthday and how her friends surprised her all day long with special surprises and how awkward and unwanted the gestures were.The manager watched this whole thing go down while she slowly stirred the liquid in the cups. We were so disgusted we left to drink them in the hotel. Guess what. The worst hot chocolate we have ever tasted. Im not sure how you get that wrong. Terrible service and a terrible drink!!

Wow doesnt begin to describe the amazing grits and granola pancakes...great service and friendly staff. Will definitely visit it again when in Nashville!

Wifi wasnt working. I had come to get some work done, got a fresh cup of coffee, sat down and unpacked my things and the internet wouldnt connect. Disappointing

Improv comedy in small theatre upstairs, very cozy, intimate and funny. The cafe has a large selection of coffees to offer, art on the walls for sale and very friendly service.

Coffee is OK, but the atmosphere is very homely and clean. Good spot for a meeting or to just hang out!

Ok, so this has become my regular, specifically for the hash browns. I suggest the Big Bad Hash Browns (I feel stupid saying that every time I go in) which is a large order of hash browns covered sauteed onions and peppers, and melted colby/jack cheese. Theyll add an egg for just $1 more (still makes it less than $9). It can get crowded mid- to late-morning, especially on weekends, but before 8:30 and youre golden.

Enjoyed the Iced Match Letterpress and the carrier

Cheap eats, quality coffee, laid back environment, outdoor seating, college crowd, practically historic for as long as its been around.