Subterranean Coffee Boutique North Park

Tasty coffee! Mexican Mocha and Honey Lavender! Enough said. Stop by! You won’t

I really liked this place. I was pleasantly surprised by the lox bagel. It was made to order and the bagel itself was surprisingly fresh. It was made a bit differently with basil, grilled red onion, and perhaps olive oil but somehow really worked. My iced coffee had slight sour notes which I don’t tend to like but in this case also somehow worked. Very cool atmosphere too. I would love to come here again.

Menu is creative and the coffee is great. The staff is friendly and fast. The vibe is quiet, artsy, and unique. Definitely not like every other cafe in town, hope this one sticks around forever.

UPDATE 2024: And finally, after four years beneath the surface, I crawl to the surface, leaving behind the labyrinth that predates America's cowboys, Spain's conquistadors, the Kumeyaay's ancestors who are remembered, the La Jolla's who are forgotten, and even the eldritch shades who were beneath America before humans walked across the Pacific Ocean to claim the skies of this continent for our children to live and die beneath. The deepest parts of the sub-surface labyrinth, the caverns and passageways carved by humanity's predecessors, who had the capability of sentience, but possibly no reason to bother with it, was what kept me, since they were carved by alien intelligences that do not bother with sentience, according to inhuman geographies that utterly flummox Google Maps and human math. But after only four years beyond geography, I did escape, and eventually, and above the Spanish mission-era tunnels are some dug by the Mormons in their highly navigable fashion; and it only took a couple weeks to realize that Subterranean Coffee Boutique has moved from Hillcrest to a new location at 30th and University, I climbed a staircase and emerged, blinking and staring at the sun whose light I had almost forgotten, into a comfortable coffee shop with delicious chocolate chip cookies. The only note I'd give is that if you have a key for the bathroom and leave the stairway to an infinite underground realm of madness behind an unlocked door, you should at least post signage. ORIGINAL Review 2020: Subterranean is actually underground. Descending into the depths of an impenetrable catacomb deep beneath San Diego, the path passes through the remnants of WWII shipworks, Mexican-American War fortifications, and the Old Spanish Mission. Then come the villages of the Kumeyaay, and then the La Jolla, and then peoples whose names and Gods are lost to time, though archeologists call them Clovis after a small town in New Mexico where white men first disturbed their graves. Lower still come structures so monumental and architecture so alien the builders can't be known to our history, and perhaps not even our biology. Under these derelict temples is one final chamber, cut into the earth by long forgotten Eldritch powers, there is evidence of human use in a small corner that torchlight shadows and towering obelisks make smaller, human activity: a coffee shop, truly and ultimately subterranean, with really good vegan muffins.

Super chill coffee house. Coffee is good, food is good. Relaxed funky atmosphere. Has out door seating.