Nana's Cafe — Restaurant in Santa Rosa

Robusta coffee beans are incredibly earthy and bitter on their own, hence why most traditional vietnamese establishments either use a blend with soybean, red bean, or roasted corn filler to lessen this bitterness. If they don't, they often add spices, liqueur, and similar ingredients to play into the dark flavor profile and broaden it. If none of these things are done, it's often combined with sweetened condensed milk instead to lessen the bitterness.

Nana's Cafe does none of this. They serve you a plain black Robusta coffee blend that, even when drowned in half-and-half, will taste like dirt. Their cafe food selection is often store-bought and stale. Their customer service is non-existent. Their seating and atmosphere is terrible. If you read "Cafe" and thought you were getting a nice cafe experience, you're sorely mistaken.

They should stick to the few things they're good at: boba and banh mi. And even then, you're much better off going to one of the other two boba shops within a few blocks for better customer service, lower prices, better food selections, and...

Freshly made hot breakfast sandwiches that don't get much better than is, and quickly prepared vientamese coffees which are the best I've had in Santa Rosa at the very least. Fairly quick and friendly service with no complaints. Wide variety of breakfast/brunch items, just a tad hard to find parking for, especially depending on the day of the week - expect to walk a bit. Very reasonable prices, especially for these days for what you get - you would likely pay close to 2x for even less at most breakfast places nearby. Woukd recommend if looking to grab something on your way out of Santa Rosa or for a little brunch picnic like we usually go here for since the items are fresh, warm and stay that way...

The coffee tasted dirty and the breakfast burrito was not good. The Bahn mi was decent though. The service was ok but kind of cold and the worker was literally sleeping behind the counter in a lil bed set up when we first...