Nostalgia Café — Restaurant in Salt Lake City

This is one of my favorite cafe in Salt Lake City. It's located near downtown, and has ample street parking on both sides. The cafe has a very cozy and friendly ambiance, that attracts the younger crowd to study or just chill. The interior looks very vintage, with wooden chairs and tables, and a couple of sofas in the middle-very hipster. If you're not engrossed in your studies, or having a casual conversation, there's bookshelves with many interesting books from all genres, or board games to keep you entertained. We often play couple of games of chess, while we're sipping our tea.

The sweet crepes here are one of a kind, they're simple (not many variety on the menu), but elegant. Choose one of their four sweet crepes (Traditional, Strawberry, Nutella, P&B Banana), and they'll craft it before your eyes-truly an art of its own. I recommend the Nutella crepe, as it contains the strawberry and banana from the other crepes, and the Nutella is the cream on top. I'm not a fan of the chocolate sauce they drizzle on top of the other crepes, it tastes like dilute chocolate water. The Crepes are amazingly delicious though, very thin pancake filled with whip cream and fruits-healthy dessert anyone!

Lastly, they have a great selection of tea and coffee. I usually get the Marrakesh Mint Green Tea. I remember the first time I had it, it was so good (lightly minted and refreshing), I looked up the brand (Mighty Leaf) immediately, and ordered a couple of boxes on Amazon. Nothing beats a good Nutella crepe, while sipping a cup of Marrakesh Mint Green Tea, casually conversing or intensely focusing in a game of chess with...

Wonderful baristas. There was a time the turnover was quite which naturally led to slight decrease in quality and tone of the place. Today, the baristas are mostly seasoned pros. The owner is super friendly and truly cares for his customer-base. The shop stays open until midnight which for SLC is very good. I would go so far as to recommend 1 AM, at least on weekends. The location is terrific, particularly for me being I work two blocks away. Even so, there is not much in the couple block radius in terms of commercial establishments. Without Nostalgia where it is there would be a significant void in this area of downtown. The only reason this specific area can be considered a part of downtown is because of Nostalgia. Without it the area would simply be a 'business district.' The coffee and espresso are good (3.5 out of 5) but not excellent. The speed of delivery helps make up for it. The food is actually pretty good for what they offer. I wish they had just two or three more veggie offerings (veggie savory crepes) that were substantial enough to be considered a meal other than additional salads.

Drawbacks: (not significant) should be open through 1 AM weekends!!! No longer serves 3.2% beer as previous owners did. Nothing on part of new owner for not wanting to deal with the DABC's constant bullshit...Because of the lack of downtown public establishments there can often be some odd folk--nothing for which to worry or cause any...

I Love this place. I was looking for a unique coffee shop and the “Nostalgia Cafe” came highly recommended. I wasn’t sure where to park as I approached my destination so I pulled up in front. There was an alley that went behind the location but I wasn’t sure about parking so I backed up and parked on the street, besides I was just quickly going to run in. It was to cold to sit outside but with weather permitting, there is outdoor seating that would be lovely.

As soon as I waked through the front door I was in Love. Big overstuffed couches to lounge in and several different sizes of tables. *First I checked out the mug collection they had for Sale. Couldn’t see a price but they had a few different styles. *I ordered an “Iced coconut Chai & a Sweet Potato (?) Muffin. The gal helping me was delightful and had my order ready in no time.

I decided to sit and enjoy the ambiance. There was a cabinet full of books which also held some games. As I looked around I spotted an officer outside writing a ticket for a parked car. Yikes!! Before I could take many pictures I dashed out of there as the officer walked towards my car. As I backed up to parking spot I hadn’t seen the No-Parking sign behind me. CHECK THIS...