Diesel Cafe - Somerville

Has a few vegan baked goods and both breakfast and lunch that can be made vegan. a fun interior with lots of art

Nothing here is vegan, but you can ask to make the veggie sandwich vegan by substituting the special sauce for mustard. So annoying. Why not go the minimal effort to list a few items as vegan!? Two stars for having tempeh and tofu though!

They have a couple of vegetarian sandwiches, but nothing that's vegan by default. Annoying thing is that at least one of their sandwiches would be vegan if they just used vegan mayo! But no, instead you have to ask them to replace the mayo with avocado.

I get why people want to hang out here. This is where the young and beautiful and lonely go to hang out and do work', obviously. But the coffee and food is not good and quite expensive. People pay for a place to hang out but it's usually overcrowded and you can't find a place to sit anyway. I get it's an institution. Frankly Starbucks is better for vegan options, is across the street. It just lacks the cool factor and decor, which Diesel obviously wins at.

Diesal Café is a tad bit better than say, Starbucks, and yet thinks it's a lower East Side coffee shop. It's not. The lattes were okay as long as the female baristas were working. Three males in a row were all bad apples, another 2 I noticed, didn't seem to work much. Great décor, average coffee. Wifi, average speed. Booted me off somewhat frequently. Also The following happened like 4 or 5 times in variations at Diesal in my first week living and going there everyday after just having moved into Somerville: I ordered a caramel latte with a breakfast burrito, and scone. It took 23 minutes. One bro looking barista' told me my latte wasn't mine, after I waited like 10 minutes staring at it dying in the coffee window. Then he insisted it was someone else's, half paying attention, then without even looking at his screen, told me that it was mine after all, when he'd called out the wrong name several times. No acknowledgment of a mistake. At all. Five people stood there like idiots waiting for their average $7 drinks. Finally I took the dead latte to my table. Its heart, no longer recognizable. Then tasted it. No caramel! OMG. I brought it back and asked for caramel. The Bro did something seemingly abstract with his arms and the latte behind the counter. I took it back to my table. No caramel. Not even at the bottom. The guy there had actually just lied to me. On top of another guy serving me an old breakfast burrito, really--DRY. The original bro' then refused to remake my drink and gave me an attitude like I didn't know what I was doing in his private club. Wow. Then, he refused to refund my coffee until I insisted more severely. Which I did, pretty severely insist upon. Never going again.