Lestat's Hillcrest, San Diego CA

Always here Wednesday and Saturday mornings. Great meeting place. My main complaint is the prices. They raised them today. I order tea, it went from 3.25 to 3.75 and they don't even give refills! We come as a group, you would think there would be some kind of appreciation for coming in two times a week.

Nice cafe with great indoor and outdoor seating. The menu has a good variety of food and drinks. Staff is helpful and friendly. I’d return for an early coffee.

Last time I came the coldbrew was great! This time pretty weak, even though I got it without ice it is weaker.
$4 bagel with prepackaged cream cheese.
Sandwiches are up to $15 a piece.
I was digging this place when I moved here 6mths ago, now not so much. Perhaps a sign of the times.

I had high hopes for this place but was sadly disappointed. I ordered the caramel cinnamon coffee and it tasted nothing like the description. The taste was more like burnt mocha coffee. Their customer service is terrible, and the place is not very clean. If you want good tasting coffee this is not the place to go.

Would be a good place except that they play Vulgar Rap music, nobody should have to listen to this crapper music. There’s lots of good music you could play. Allowing this type of music should not be tolerated by the owners of this coffee shop, have some class and respect for your customers. I hope the owner’s of this knows about this and some of the cussing from workers too. It’s just not necessary to have to here this, just shows the lack of morals people have these days. Please clean it up a bit, other then that, this place is fine just asking for everyone have some manners/ respect for each other. Thanks, Regular customer ️

Great place, service is good and they have wifi and lots of wall plugs if you like to work at coffee shops!

I enjoyed this place. They are serious about the door signs so its good to read before you go in.

Large selection of coffee choices. Also had food options although we just got coffee this time. We ordered the Peppermint Patty and Frozen Banana, both were typical drinks. Atmosphere was cool though. Very spacious with indoor and outdoor seating. Seemed to be a good place for studying or just to chill.

Nice place to study. Lots of room to find a space to get work done. Their Mexican Mocha tastes more like a mocha, but their desserts are delicious!

It’s my least favorite location of the three. The service is always distracted, but they get your your drinks so whatever really.

The reason for my rating is that this location is entirely too loud at night for me too focus, and I’m NOT talking about the outside noise that inevitably comes through.

There is plenty of space to work and outlets.

I brought my dog here for a coffee and a quick morning breakfast before his vet appointment. The barista seemed inconvenienced to serve me, the coffee was extremely watered down and the pastries came wrapped in plastic and not even on a plate. The outdoor patio was disgusting and covered in gum and trash and made it hard for my dog to be here. Spent nearly $30 just to be disappointed.

Thursday night 8: 30ish. Barista with the beenie. I'm with the gal who said snobby.
#coffeeisNOTbetter!

My home away from home for work. Great hangout place, great location, and their cups are cozy. Peanut butter bar pastry is yummy and chamomile

Solid cafe, but the wifi is essentially useless, don't come if you need someplace to work.

Grwat heifhbirhoid gem, good coffe plates, abd desserts, excekkent place to study and do schoolwork while snacking (:

Really a pretty good cafe, they used to be more of a hole in the wall kind of a place but have definitely been upgrading in the past several years.

Disgusting mens toilet. It's dirty, some water pools, and graffiti, it's a mess.
Little atmosphere in the space. No music, no cafe buzz. One person, serving, taking cash, and making items from menu, not washing his hands.
Not sanitary. He did his best.

Not bad! I think I’d come back. I came here with my husband so we can do some schoolwork. There were many others with their computers doing some type of work as well. Good environment to study, not too loud so I was able to focus and not be overwhelmed. We ordered some sandwiches & they were done within maybe 5 minutes? Possibly less? It was fast. Husband got a drink of some sort and that was fast as well. People who worked there seemed nice. Only complaint would be parking is a little annoying but it’s not the cafés fault, it’s just a product of the environment. Bathroom was nice and clean for the most part. Otherwise, nice! I’d recommend checking it out at least once!

Long story short: Good place, good coffee, good cupcake, less outlets, average wifi. Overall will come again because its a good place to study.

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In depth review:
Amazing place, I came here to work on some assignments and I had a great time. I loved the ambiance as well as the coffee.

The snickers was great as well as the vegan chocolate cupcake, I'm not vegan and do not have the best experience with vegan pastries, but this was an amazing cupcake.

As a student I really do appreciate having a place that closes late. Since I can't really study at libraries since theyre too quiet but, this coffee shop provided the ideal environment to focus and get some homework done. It did not play loud music and the volume inside was not overwhelming.

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I would rate 5 stars, however, the only reason I am rating 4 out of 5 is because of two reasons.

1) Lack of electric outlets; As many others do, I came in with an electronic and in need of having it constantly plugged in due to my workload. Me and my friend were only able to find one outlet in the back for us to use.

I wish there were slightly more outlets so that students or employees would not worry about our electronics dying.

2) WiFi was pretty good at first, so I don't know if it was just a lone experience. However, I do want to write it here just incase.

I came into the Cafe when it was not very full, and as the internet typically works, the more people that join in the slower it gets. However, it did not take many people to enter the Cafe for the internet to slow down at a rapid pace. I was able to get work done, however. I could not have the wifi on my phone to ensure my assignments would be turned in.

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Overall great place. Will definitely come back, either alone or with friends. Also shout out to the batista Ryan, super chill and he did a great job even when a lot of people started coming in AND he was working alone. As an ex-food service employee that is some serious respect.

He also recommended the now best cupcake I've ever had.