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Caffe Bene

4.1 (51 reviews)
ModerateCoffee & Tea
Open • 8:00 am - 9:00 pm
Updated 2 months ago

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Rosa F.

A Coffee place Where Students study and drink delicious coffee, pastries and huge breakfast sandwiches. It's cute, fresh, and lots to choose from. Service is quick and the place is spacious. It's a nice university town.

Large and regular açaí bowl. One without blueberries and extra chocolate. Toffee Honeycomb Latte
Zohra H.

These bowls were bus! The regular size bowl is really big so i would recommend the small size unless u r starving. The prices for all of them are really good compared to other açaí places! The service is good, i used a kiosk so it was quick and easy! The toffee latte was so good it had such a nice flavor and doesn't hurt my tummy. Finally, the ambiance in here is really nice, especially the outlets!! Don't get me started on the outlets. I see like 20 and I'm sitting in the back corner!!! Perfect for us college students. The location is so convenient, being on green!

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Luke W.

Established college coffee center, lots of room, large menu, plenty of friendly staff and nice sizes for lattes, we all sampled lattes and enjoyed some boardgames too. My latte was decent, nothing special, definitely better brews in the area but few with a large seating area and plenty to dabble on the menu.

milk tea with boba pearls
Eliza K.

This was the best coffee i've ever had in my life. I love coffee so much i'm practically a coffee connoisseur and this was amazing. i ordered an iced latte with almond milk which is not pictured because i drank it so fast which shows how good this coffee is. also, my cousin ordered a boba milk tea and she said the boba pearls weren't undercooked and were perfect. i recommend this place it's amazing! check it out!

Spicy chicken sandwich
Nastya G.

Check up on your food as it's being prepared! I've had the most horrible experience getting takeout from this location. I ordered a hot sandwich to go and, since there was no free seating, waited at the counter for 20 minutes. When I saw the two girls chatting away, not busy by other orders, I asked about the progress on mine. They said they for sure made it and someone else took it. I was there at the counter the entire time and not a single sandwich passed through, but I let it slide. 30 minutes passed, I asked them about my sandwich again and they said it's a couple more minutes. At 40 minutes it turns out they weren't watching the sandwich and it burned. At 45 minutes, they gave it to me on the plate and argued I ordered it for here. After checking in the system they realised it was, in fact, a to-go order and proceeded to dump it in the bag without any wrapping whatsoever. As I opened the sandwich it was cold and obvious that the breads came from different sandwiches and were misaligned. The taste was average, but very hard to eat because of how it was put together. This was some of the worst service I ever received. If you are trying to go to Caffe Bene, choose the location in Urbana instead. The same sandwich there took less than 10 minutes to make and wrap so it stayed hot.

açaí bowl
Runzer W.

I went there many times this winter break, tried the açaí bowl, triple chocolate cake and some other desserts. Before I tried the açaí bowl, I searched on the internet and found it was highly recommended, but when I finally got it, it was not so amazing like the photo others took. For the triple chocolate cake, I do think the chocolate on the top might be too hard, and the middle layer was somewhat too soft, which made this cake not so balanced in taste in the whole. So sorry I am strict on desserts or bakery, I'll give a 4 star this time.

Strawberry Honey Bread
Stella W.

Love it!!! The store was so beautiful and food was so good. We got the strawberry honey bread and it was huge compared to the picture! It was perfectly baked with fresh and beautiful fruits and honey. I would miss this food so much!!! Also the ambiance is so comfortable. The store also had a lot of Asian and Korean snacks and goodies.

Strawberry sul-bing
Janice C.

This was my go-to study place in undergrad during summers when everywhere else was closed. Lots of room for me to spread out all my study stuff on the table without feeling guilty and lots of outlets! People always told me they didn't like the milk tea here but I personally love it. Not extremely sweet and milky tasting so it checked my requirements lol. My only negative was the sul-bing that they added at this location. When I ordered it, I was expecting the same size as the bingsoo at the Goodwin location, but it was tiny as seen in the photo. It was still delicious, but $13 for this was a little much. Got it to share with a friend and we were both like wtf. Definitely prefer the bingsoo at the other location!

Tiffany C.

A friend highly recommended the Açaí Bowl, one of the most popular items on the menu. It definitely exceeded expectations and I wish I had another stomach to eat one more! I will be sure to come back for their açaí bowl next time I'm in town. It was really peaceful and quiet when we visited. There was plenty of seating and the tables and restroom were very clean. The staff was friendly and approachable. I came new year's eve and needed to get change for the parking meter. The barista gave me some change but also informed me that he heard the customers say that parking was free for NYE. I'm not from Champaign so it was good to know I didn't have to pay extra for parking. The owner was also very friendly and came over to ask us if we needed anything else. You can tell he really cares about his customer's experience. It's not every day you get to meet the cafe owner and he personally makes your açaí bowl.

Brownie
Ruchi S.

After my last year not so good experience, I received a message from owner that they have thrown away all the chipped mugs and asked me to give it a try again. So, I took my husband on a coffee date. I ordered two cappuccinos, macaron, garlic bread/toast and a brownie. This time, I got nice looking mugs. Coffee tasted great and so did the macaron. I really liked the garlic toasts, they were sweet-savory with strong taste of garlic :). Brownie was too sweet for me. I loved my experience this time. The place was quiet, so we spent some time there and it felt the same as when we were dating :)

A delightful place to sit at.
Siddhartha G.

Loved their Cortado, the place is a delight to the eyes. If it was there in my time (graduated few years ago), I'm sure I'd have done a lot of my studying here instead of Siebel center.

Yum
Matthew W.

Caffe Bene has some incredible waffles. Incredible as in : go out and try one. The atmosphere is contemporary and woody.

They blended trash into my bubble tea!
Yum Y.

I like bubble tea so I naturally gravitate to Caffe Bene for just that, their atmosphere, & desserts. The red bean bingsoo is enormous (especially if you get the large, it's as big as my face)! The strawberry honey bread is more than a loaf of bread with strawberries on top. Inside it's austere exterior, it's filled with some sort of delicious cheese. This isn't the cheapest place for a delicious treat but they are good treats. The bingsoo is $11.95 for a large. The honey bread is $7.95. The coffee is meh. This location has all the pizzaz that characterizes the franchise but it is often crowded and the traffic of Green Street just adds to that. Also, don't go when it's busy. They might blend trash into your drink (see photo). There were definitely pieces of inedible things that I was drinking & eventually found largre chunks of trash at the bottom. Ew.

Coffee packaged to go for easy transport. Thanks for going above and beyond!

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Thai bubble tea is always amazing!!. Quiet atmosphere and quick service. My go to place.

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Cappuccino cake was ultra good! With an iced americano it was even better. Service was fast

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The service is amazing and I really enjoy the atmosphere! Their waffles are really good, and their acai bowls are pretty refreshing.

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Great service, great drinks, and great vibes. I came here during finals to study and try their…read morematcha and was very satisfied! The strawberry matcha is sweet and flavorful. The inside is quiet and has a great seating area for studying, it was very clean and had a cute community board inside! I was served quickly by a lone person with optimism and a smile. I felt very welcome and enjoyed every moment of being here! I will definitley be back to try their desserts!

This dessert shop was a wonderful find for me. I went here to get a matcha oriented drink but ended…read moreup getting a soft-serve swirl. Upon arrival, I checked out the menu and saw a lot of wonderful variety of items that I wanted to try; however, I only had room for one thing. While scoping out the menu, my eyes fell on their soft-serve flavors. They not only had chocolate and vanilla flavors but also, hojicha, matcha, and ube. Plus, you could get them in a swirl or just as two flavors in a dish. I immediately decided that I wanted the Hojicha and Ube pairing. My son got the Matcha and Ube combo. Both were good. I liked all the flavors. Hojicha was my favorite, followed by Matcha, and then Ube. Each of these ice cream had rich flavor and the texture was smooth. The pricing of the soft-serve was on the high side but the portion size was good. The Ice cream is made in-house including the Hojicha. The shop was busy. It was frequented by U of I students, it seemed. The service was good. I'd go back here if I were to be in Champaign again. Check it out.

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Stopped in this summer while visiting a friend. She's raved about Bakelab for ages, and I was…read moreexcited to try it. The pastry selection was amazing. We got a couple of croissants and a canele, and we each ordered an espresso drink. It was everything she promised - and more. The croissant was flaky and buttery. The canele had the signature caramelized exterior and soft inside. I intended to only have a bite and save the rest for later, but I couldn't resist finishing it. Would definitely come back on my next visit. In the meantime, I'll just have to ask my friend to bring pastries to me when she visits!

A cute cafe in the lobby of an apartment/hotel complex. The pastries all looked delicious and there…read morewere plenty of unique drink options. The service was quick and friendly, the barista described the options available and had good recommendations! Good study space with WiFi, bathrooms, and a water fountain around the corner. Just be prepared to wear a jacket on either end of the cafe near the doors, can get windy upon opening! Thai Tea Caramel Canelé {5/5}: The best canelé I've ever had (okay, I admit, I've only had maybe 6 in my life). Great caramel and good Thai tea flavor. The texture was AMAZING with a nice slight crisp and chewy outside and almost custard-like inside. I got 2 more before I left Green Onion Kouign-Amann {4/5}: A caramel shell outside of this very flakey pastry that I had plenty of green onions mixed within the dough. It was a great play on sweet and salty flavors with delicious flakey layers Jade Cloud {3/5}: Peach oolong tea with matcha cold foam. Just a personal preference thing, but the flavor combination of peach, oolong, and matcha was not my favorite. I can see how someone who likes this flavor profile would find this drink refreshing!

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