Black Bear Café — Restaurant in Belmont

Love this little bookstore and cafe!!! Everything in their cafe is local: MEM Tea, Recreo Coffee, Danish Pastry House sweets, OMG! Bagel Bagels, and so on.

Them, the book store is the quintessential bookstore from your dreams. It even has a those ladders that move along a wide wall of books, like the one from Beaty and the Beast!!! Now, there is a sign telling you not to get on the ladder (surely for insurance purposes), but I love that it exists.

They also have a plethora of tiny trinkets and gift cards and other amazing things.

Everyone was also so so friendly! I have trouble with my joints and they brought a chair over for me to sit on because the register was taking a while (which was good because two kids came racing past a moment later, and I’m very anxious around kids running because I’m fragile). My ONE complaint is I wish someone had told the kids not to run in a bookstore, definitely made me tense and anxious, but, other than that, it...

The worst experience ever. My friend, my little son, and I have never experienced such a horrible, poor and extremely rude service. Just seconds after we put down our stuff to a free table at the cafe, a male worker approached us with a rude remark what we can't sit here if we don't order. We were shocked and weirded out because we were on our way to order food and drinks, however we let it go and enjoyed for a while a chat about the project we are working on over a coffee and soup. However the man came back after an hour or so demanding that we "pack up our workspace". My son is not used to be talked to like that and cried on the way back home. I traveled the world and visited almost all continents and have never been treated with so much disrespect before. I am extremely disappointed to have places like that in my neighborhood. I will never ever step my foot in this place and will let know all my friends to...

worst manager ever. i was there for two hours, doing my work and got a soup. the manager kept disturbing me and asked me to leave. i was planning on leaving anyway and 2 hours isn’t a big deal considering how empty the cafe was. anyway, he turns the power off of my plug point and my work drive got ejected without me facilitating that. Completely unacceptable. i will never ever go back here and my friend (who came with her son) was also thrown out coz they had been there for 90 mins. the food itself is pretty mid...