Capital One Café — Restaurant in Somerville

I have been coming to this cafe daily for the last month and I love it! Everything from the staff to the space is very welcoming. The space is huge and there is plenty of room between tables. The design is very minimalist and won't get in the way of what you came in to do. You won't be bothered by overstuffed trash or dirty sugar/milk counters.

The staff is super friendly and you won't even feel like they work for a bank. They are always looking for ways to interact with customers by putting up riddles, or question of the day. The only thing that will constantly remind you that you are at a bank are the TVs and the giant displays.

I prefer Peets over Starbucks because their drinks are much stronger, be it coffee or chai. It is slightly more expensive than Starbucks but with the half off discount for drinks, its quite competitive.

If you haven't noticed, most local banks have started to offer classes about personal finance and this capital one is no different...but the thing that sets them apart is the free life coaching sessions and you don't even have to be a customer.

Other the obvious things that can be seen immediately, what C1C has done well is create an environment to have open conversations about money. Through the classes, you can see that they want to help their customers in planning their life as a whole not just the money portion.

The role of businesses should be to serve the community and C1C...

First and worst experience. The Asian girl who works there is rude, didn’t see a name tag unfortunately. Got 3 drinks (don’t get the matcha with strawberry foam btw) but while ordering she had a rude demeanor and it was like she didn’t even want to help us. I didn’t sense that she was like that with other customers, and I’m never one to claim anything but I’m young and me and my wife are gay so that felt a little weird. I’m not going to assume it was because I’m gay but it could’ve been because we were young and she also sounded surprised that we had a capital one credit card. After, we finally got our drinks and the cold foam on the matcha drink looked like the tiniest and skinniest little cloud floating on the matcha. If you’ve had cold foam, ever, you know it’s supposed to be near the top of your cup and cover the surface of the drink. So my wife just politely asked for more, the other person (young male) working there was nice about it and was to doing it, then the same rude worker decided to say out loud to him (for us to hear) "thats how much were supposed to put". Overall, the rest of the drinks were good but the...

I dislike any sort of over-sold marketing schemes... this place is phenomenal. I was consistently treated to on-the-house coffees, friendly discussion and fun games/riddles/interactions from the staff, regardless of my membership (or lack there-of). Seriously, you would forget this place has anything to do with a bank. Now, some people may approach this as a crafty marketing scheme. I don't think 'crafty' is an appropriate word for it, honestly. I became a member of Capital One, simply because they were KIND to me- I was working away one day, and one of the staff approached me, and I assumed they were finally going to push me to open an account there. ...nope, they wanted to give me free pizza.

The staff, both behind the counter of the Peet's Cafe, and the C1C staff are incredibly welcoming and friendly. Yesterday was a catered crepe day, so everyone got both a lunch crepe and a dessert crepe as well (they don't care if you're a member to take part).

My wife and I came in last month for their free waffle Saturday. We had breakfast, played board games (they have them there), and hung out with the staff. This place...