High Tide Coffee Oceanside — Restaurant in Oceanside

Oceanside California is known for its cafés and it looks like we've got another gem in the rough now opened on S Coast Hwy.

High Tide Coffee Co is no opened to the community and they offer a nice variance to the coffee scene in the area.

High Tide Coffee Co is located within the RISING CO building complex just off of S Coast Hwy. So make sure you look for that signage.

They've got a shared parking lot in the front and street parking available on both side streets. This is good for now, but it MAY pose an issue during busy hours.

It's a good thing they are also on DoorDash and take pre-orders online & via call-in.

The entire vibe is for their branding is cute and inviting. Their interior is very trendy-earthy and colorful.

But one shortcoming is that they have minimal seating options inside. There are only 3 tables.

Luckily, their exterior seating has more benches and group-seating options.

Their service is fast, friendly, warm and inviting.

I love their merchandising with the cute logos.

Their menu consists of staple classics like: cold brew, espresso, americano, latté, macchiato, cortado, cappuccino, and mocha.

They also have specialty options like: lavender honey, rose cardamom, snickerdoodle, candy orange mocha, chachaccino, matcha chaga, and moon milk.

They also have a few teas and hot cocoa.

For foods, they have some solid basics like: breakfast burrito, acai bowls, avocado toast, assorted pastries and granola & chia parfait.

I especially appreciate that many of their pastries are vegan & gluten-free.

I enjoyed my seasonal special drink, the Espresso Paloma and it was a tasty variant to the typical coffee drink. I also enjoyed my snickerdoodle latté.

I'd like to make a small note to pet owners: Although there's a notice that they DO NOT ALLOW PETS (only service animals) - this is not strictly enforced : thank goodness.

Overall, I like what High Tide Coffee Co is bringing to the area and they provide a nice variation to the 'average café' and they have...

Poor service on a dead weekend Saturday morning. It has been a few months since visiting for our regular coffee and we won’t return. You can tell the workers are quick to fib as a reflex of fouling up often. After getting our drinks, they forgot our pastry because of their chatting with each other, I ask, and the immediate reply is “it just came out”. (It was warmed per timer when we ordered and had cooled down since sitting in the toaster about 10 minutes later. His fib was her prompt to get it out of the toaster oven.) We ordered a small chai latte and the cup was half filled. I almost just left and took it as whatever, but considering his fib about the pastry, I opened the cup and asked if that’s typical to fill a small latte half way. His reply was that it was foam to the top (half the cup, which is more than half the volume of the cup because of the shape) and he claimed it had just evaporated away in the 3-4 minutes since he gave it to me and was sitting waiting for the pastry, and said if I wanted less foam I can ask next time. As if I am new to the cafe world. A latte mind you, not a cappuccino.

Quick fibs with such confidence. They’ll make great dirt lot car salesman one day. High Tide gets stars for the layout and menu. Great job with that. Good...

Stopped by Seaborne Coffee to work before a lunch meetup and overall had a great experience. Would definitely come back.

I was about to stop at another Coffee Shop but saw it was super full. So I went down the street a bit and stopped by Seaborne. They do have a small parking lot in front as well as some street parking (make sure to double-check the signs).

There's plentiful seating outdoors (since the coffee shop is linked with a co-op) as well as a small indoor area. I only saw an outlet on one side of the cafe though as a heads-up! The WiFi was also working great with little issue.

They had some food options as well as plentiful drinks (they had the espresso tonic that I would totally get on my next stop). I got the cold brew for $4.50. Super solid and not too bitter.

All-in-all, really enjoyed...