This place is truly a blessing to life in Hamra. It's massive, with three spacious floors and tons of work space. Always swarming with students. Truly more student-oriented, but young professionals can fit in easily too. And the garden space is a nice seating area for anybody. The coffee is a little generic in taste, which is kind of a bummer, but it's really fine. Maybe that's a personal taste thing. Sandwich and snack options are fantastic. They do fun events here all the time as well; it's exciting to have an experimental space that's trying new ways to bring people together.

Some miscellaneous things: there are outlets everywhere, which is an incredibly smart way to make working here actually plausible. There's a soundproof video call room downstairs, which is so unique and useful!

People tend to not respect the quiet policy in the downstairs workspace — which is obviously not the cafe's fault, but something to maybe expect ahead of time. The interior of the main space (ground floor, where the bar is) is a little drab and underserved compared to the garden. Way too much gray, and dim-ish lighting — an interior designer's touch could really help out.

One last thing I'd maybe recommend to the staff is mopping the restrooms a little more often. They're definitely not dirty; they just tend to be wet for some reason (this review is in April 2019, for reference, by the time you read this it's likely they'll have gotten into a good rhythm with keeping the place neat).

Thanks for everything B.Hive!