Cali Cafe — Restaurant in San Diego

Rude and overpriced. I was hoping to find a good acai bowl place near me. Didn't happen here. What is described on the menu as an empanada is actually just an overly microwaved bag of greasy inedible mush. We didn't bother to complain. But what did get us was their acai bowls. Clearly on the sign it states that every bowl comes with bananas, strawberries, and coconut. The Cali bowl is exactly that actually. The Caribbean bowl is described as the Cali bowl plus mango and pineapple. I ordered them both. I received a perfect Cali bowl but the other one had no bananas or strawberries, just very frozen pineapple and mango. When I asked why they said that even though the menu says that it's not correct. I then pointed out the price discrepancy between the two bowls expecting that mine would have more items in it not the same amount. I was met with the stinkiest of faces. They offered zero apology and did give me my side items that were supposed to be included according to their menu. Like if you already know the answer to the problem and you haven't fixed it at least treat your customers respectfully when they notice it. All I got was three stank faces and some strawberry and banana. So please if you do go here and order an acai bowl, make sure you get those items that are listed on the menu until they fix it because you are definitely...

Wish I could give a better rating. On the first visit, I got a butterbeer frappé. It was the best one I have tried so far. Thought i had found my new favorite place. Very good balance of caramel and coffee. Somehow perfectly blended and stayed the perfect frozen consistency until the last sip. It's delicious, but a bit pricy at $10 for a medium. Honestly this one was absolutely worth it for the treat. However I came back today for the same, and this one was not balanced in flavor to ice and was not well blended so I got large chunks of ice with minimal flavor mostly just weak coffee as well as large chunks of butter. Not like sweet butter, just butter... and a thin drizzle of caramel on top. It was pretty watery and bitter, but the butter chunks were not a pleasant experience . I don't know if it just wasn't blended enough, or if someone was maybe training or forgot to add something, but I couldn't even drink this. I highly doubt most people would be able to drink butter chunks big enough to clog the straw. I didn't try it until I had already left and didn't have time to go back, or I would have asked for them to remake it. This was basically paying to throw it away. I really hope this was a one-time thing, but honestly, I don't know if I want to risk...

The staff here are honestly so sweet and amazing! There was a time I couldn’t pay for my drink. I went there thinking I had the funds to get coffee that day. (Was such an embarrassing moment) I pulled out three cards and they all declined.(I wanted to cry 😅🥲) So I whisper to the young lady who took my order to please cancel. I felt so bad! I was embarrassed and overly apologetic. As I’m trying to leave carrying all my humiliation. The young barista lady said “ Oh, here it’s okay! We got you this time.” I told her I couldn’t take it, I’d feel bad doing so. But she insisted for me to take it. So I did and I thanked her and everyone there. This was the first time I’ve experienced something like this. And I honestly wanted to cry. I ended up coming back a couple of days later to pay for that drink. And left them a tip, appreciating them for being kind to me that day. Here some pictures I have taken of this place before that experience I had. Please give this location some love and appreciation to these hard...