Home Coffee Roasters — Restaurant in San Francisco

Oh home. I was in San Francisco for about three weeks and I came here about half of the time. I love some things and not others. They have a lot of options.

Coconut vanilla latte hot or iced is fire.

Cookie butter latte is hit or miss. I got it iced so the cookie butter was solid and at the bottom and didn’t taste special because of that.

Birthday cake latte is popular but it doesn’t come iced and in my opinion it wasn’t good hot. I didn’t enjoy it at all so I came back the next day for my usual coconut vanilla latte.

Matcha latte hot was average and not worth the money.

My complaint is that they only have one size, so often id Order two lattes to make up for it which is an arm and a leg.

Oat milk is an extra $1.00 which is honestly outrageous but normal for the area. All of the coffee shops in the area charge that much for oat milk which is wild because it’s not that expensive.

An average latte here with oat milk will run you $7.00 ish, which is a lot, especially for one size and especially if you’re coming daily.

Lastly, if you’re in a hurry, the wait is typically long. I often was waiting about 10 minutes to get my coffee after ordering because they’re packed. Which is a good thing but also not so much. Overall, this was definitely one of my favorite spots to frequent. I did find other shops that had their plus’ but nothing compared to the coconut vanilla latte hot or iced.

Also, currently there is no indoor dining and that has no impact...

I walked into this coffee shop looking for a hot cup of coffee and a smile but I didn’t get that. Perhaps my expectations were set too high. Just before I walked in an unfriendly woman with an unfriendly dog was sitting in front of this untested establishment called home. When I think of home I think of a warm loving environment filled with compassion and acceptance. What I found was a bunch of young women that acted like their parents just dropped them off to work their first job and they were totally dejected about being there. Anyway I ordered a pour over with almond milk and when I got it the coffee was lukewarm. Now I’m one of those lucky few that doesn’t really like coffee to be in the middle of the temperature range. It should be either screaming hot or ice cold and when it’s neither I get a little bummed out especially if I spend more than $5 for it. I asked if they could microwave it but was quickly shut down as the microwave is “only for food and not drinks” which doesn’t make any sense to me so I forced down a few big gulps so they could pour in some what turned out to be some more lukewarm steamed almond milk because they could not steam my coffee as is. So now I have an overwhelming amount of almond milk in my lukewarm coffee that I paid $7.00 for and felt I should share my experience...

I found out about Home cafe from their IG page, noticing how appealing their latte arts are! Latte art is just a bonus, their menu is unique and have a lot of items that most cafes/coffee shops don’t have!

I tried out their Birthday Cake Latte, comes with their rainbow art and sprinkles on top...it was too pretty to even drink! It was sweet and light, I wasn’t disappointed in the flavor.

I also tried their Cookie Monster Latte, with comes with those cereal cookies on top of it! I could barely taste the cookie flavor, it mostly just tasted like a regular latte with a hint of chocolate chip cookie flavor. I really want to know how they flavored it for it to taste like a cookie! I was hoping it would taste more like cookies than latte, but it was still good!

Customer service was excellent, the cashier who rung me up and also made the drinks was super nice and did an amazing art on the drinks.

Definitely will be coming back to try their food items whenever...