Mother Tongue Cafe - Oakland

What an amazing place! Great staff ,quick service and colorful fun atmosphere. The drinks are so good , thank you Mikayla!

I love this joint, I wish I could clone it and put one in every neighborhood. Delicious coffee and cocktails, friendly staff, ample seating, and OPENS PAST 7PM. A rarity these days. Oh, and their branding is

Great place had a chai latte that was fantastic. Atmosphere was nice; we came on a Saturday morning and it was lively. The barista was kind and service was great!

I'm obsessed with Mother Tongue coffee beans, been buying them from Seattle Coffee Gear at Stanford. I also found them at the SF Coffee Festival last year. I finally went to their cafe in Oakland and it was interesting, it is more of a bar than a coffee shop. Maybe this is a happening bar after work? The decorations are random and nothing like I was expecting (streamers everywhere, Cartoon Network projected on wall, and current hits playing over the loud speaker). They do have a seating area outside too. They don't have a menu/drink board. I happen to look up their menu online before we arrived but didn't realize the paper menus were near their payment system till afterwards. Because of this, we forgot they even served food other than pastries-we probably would have purchased. We had a latte, coffee tonic, apple fritter, and we bought two bags of beans. Everything was delicious and we would go again.

Best drip coffee I ever had after arrived in the US