After not having the best experience last time, I wanted to come back and try another drink. After my workout, I stopped by to try the cinnamon fig latte. YUM. I'm hooked. The space was less crowded midday, and the staff was very friendly. I will definitely be back. read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - hot chocolate - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

I've been trying to love this place but they regularly mess up orders, and I mean every time. They will always miss one thing, wether it's the sweetener in your coffee or the one ingredient on a custom bagel. Today after years of this I decided to call about it, and they hung up on me. Not usually enough to warrant a complete ban, but the definition of 'mediocre at best'. Their success is more in part to there not being other options than to their own credit. read more

Lavender latte with oat milk (2.5/5) a bit of a let down Egg and cheese on salted rosemary bagel (2.5/5) it wasn't really hot..these cheese didn't melt one bit. The finishing salt was alot..didn't need that much. Service (2.5/5) the only two workers were unenthused and inefficient probably because they were locked into their own conversation instead of putting customers first. The place seems like it has/should have a nice vibe but initial experience wasn't good. read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - Rosemary salted bagel with egg and cheese - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

Really disappointed in the quality of service lately. This Pavement location has been my go-to for the past year or so after moving neighborhoods and I've never had an issue. They messed up my last two mobile orders within the past two weeks. Both times I asked for No Cheese for my bagel sandwich but they included anyways. Not a big deal the first time and they remade it right away, but the most recent time I asked for them to remake it, there was some sort of miscommunication. I waited about five minutes while watching the workers in the back through the window chatting it up and laughing. I checked in with the employee at the counter again and they were able to produce the sandwich a minute later while the chatter magically stopped. read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - a view of a coffee shop - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

Delicious bagels and amazing customer service!! I ordered pick up from Allston but meant Brighton. The Brighton cafe did not send me away but remade my order to take from there. So very kind and amazing. read more

Nice and cozy place, stopped by to grab breakfast for the first time. They have a great cold brew and cashier was nice enough to check if i could order the Jackson Creek sandwich, since online said they were out of stock. If I'm ever in the area again I'd love to try their other sandwiches :) read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - Jackson Crook on Rosemary & Salt bagel - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

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They were super nice and helpful! The coffee was to die for, but the bagel sandwich had an egg that tasted like it came from a cartoon, but overall everything was amazing and it was a nice vibe. read more

Another good coffee and a sweet-thang with friends in the afternoon. Selection of bake goods was great this visit; when we come late they are down to just cookies later in the day. Delicious cooks mind you! They are always accommodating as staff; friendly, inquisitive, and adjusting to the customers speed. Coffee is always good and they will do their best to make it your way. Ambiance, hahahahah. A university urban coffee shop willed with nice patronage and some interesting characters. All wanderers aren't lost folks. read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - Toasted sesame bagel with garlic cream cheese and a coffee my way. Delicious Friday treat - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

I came here yesterday to have a coffee while I was waiting on someone I had to pick up. My coffee was, of course, delicious. For the first time, I got a bagel from here. I loved the texture and "puffiness" of it. My only complaint is that I ordered it toasted and it was only heated, but not toasted. That being said, it was a very tasty bagel. The outdoor seating is a really nice feature. read more

I love the rosemary salt bagel. It holds up, especially for a Boston bagel iykyk. As a coffee lover, I find their espresso inconsistent. However their matcha is pretty good. read more

Daughter is a fan of their mocha coffee something because it's smoother than others. We stopped in for breakfast so I had a bacon breakfast bagel, daughter a scone. Breakfast bagel was great. The bacon was tick and tasty, the egg big. I hate it when others give you a tiny piece of egg in a big bagel. Not much seating, only 3 stools, probably 'cause social distancing, and a window seat, so more of. A great 'n go then hangout. Definitely too small of WFCS (Work From Coffee Shop). Nice worker peeps. Prices a little on the high side. Still, I'd come back. read more

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Overpriced. Often wrong. But still better than Starbucks. This is the best coffee spot in the area. Quirky. Tasty. Usually playing cool music. It's less fancy than Tatte. Much hipper than Starbucks. But it's just not worth the price. Prices have gone up AGAIN. $1.50 for slice of cheese? $2.00 for an egg? $1.95 for an espresso shot? (A shot of expresso actually costs about 20 cents) Because they are the best in my neighborhood, I keep going back. But they get my order wrong almost half the time. Egg when I didn't ask for it. A missing baked good. Sometimes a pound of bacon, sometimes a tiny bit. It's Breakfast roulette. I would like to make this place a part of my daily routine, but I don't have the money or the patience. I like a hipstery spot as much as the next person, but come on. (See photo) read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - Now, that's just nasty. - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

Super cute place! I like he vibe. The people were really friendly, and the food (lox bagel) was delicious. Good spot for working also. read more

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such a cute place! definitely expensive if you get coffee, bagel, and leave a tip but the awakening bagel was delish and their house drip coffee was great. cute place for a chill morning read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - Awakening with avocado instead of tomato - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

I really like it here! Their rosemary salt bagel is always my first choice, and they have a lot of good build-your-own-bagel options! They also have a nice variety of coffees/espresso drinks based on your sweet-level preference. And to top it off, the staff are always super friendly. Just a note- it's a cute shop inside. But there's limited seating! read more

Best latte I've had in a while! My new favorite coffee house. Great taste, top notch premium coffee and who doesn't love a place that puts your cream cheese on your bagel for you, thanks Pavement. read more

Best coffee shop in Allston hands down. The staff is SO nice / pleasant. They play good music. The coffee is perfect. Has lots of vegan options (vegan tofu spreads, bagels, tofu, seitan, etc). There is always parking right out front if you need to drive. Only down-side is it's quite small inside so not a good spot to sit / chill -- but there are other Pavements with seating if you are looking for that (Brighton, Symphony). read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - a coffee shop with a long counter - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

Dope nook that's more suited to grab & go vs. stay & WFCS (that's work from coffee shop, peeps - get with it). Cold brew ($4M, $5L) is a more on the fruity, grassy side, which I'll take over burnt and bitter too-roasted trash. That said, the bean could stand a little more time in the heat. Housemade bagels ($1.75 each, +$2 for cream cheese) smell tremendous, are smaller in profile and more dense than what one might be used to. Seating is thoughtfully situated for a small space, and the wifi is stable - likely because it's not a perch space. read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - a cup of iced coffee and a potted plant - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

This is my favorite coffee spot in Boston! I opt for a large iced coffee most days and I honestly haven't tasted smoother coffee in the Boston area. The blends of beans they sell are delicious and they have many nondairy options to use as creamer with their coffee. A personal favorite of mine when I am feeling fancy is the iced vanilla latte. Bagels and sandwiches are out of this world! I definitely recommend skipping brunch on a Saturday or Sunday if you need a faster breakfast option and grabbing one of their many breakfast sandwiches. While they tend to be busy they always get you in and out as quickly as possible. I would skip driving to Pavement as it is on a one way street with limited meter parking. I would also opt for take out as it is usually pretty packed on the weekend! read more

Some of the best bagels in the area! I'm a big fan of bagel sandwiches and I love that you can get not only breakfast sandwiches but more lunch-focused sandwiches as well. The prices do sting a bit, especially when you start building your own items/adding things a la carte, but it's one of the best options in the area and the food is genuinely great. As far as their coffee goes, I've never had a bad drink here. I'm a black coffee drinker so have high standards for coffee, and theirs tastes fresh and not too bitter. The london fog is also particularly good and not too sweet. The people who work here are awesome and have always been super friendly and pleasant. I will echo other reviewers that the service can be slow at times, so if you're trying to pop in to snag a quick breakfast before your train it can get iffy. Online ordering is a good option, or just go on a leisurely morning when you don't need to be anywhere and can enjoy the light, airy space! read more

This place is an absolute joke. I would not recommend you go here, at all. Rather just go to the dunkin across the road. They made us wait 25 mins for two "hot lattes", which when they eventually arrived were bone chillingly cold. At this stage, it was not even worth to ask for a refund or a new coffee because they move at a snails place. This will, without a doubt in my mind, be the last time I go to this location. I've had a bad experience literally every single time I've come, and the staff do not give once ounce of care. read more

Pavement has great Sammy's for any morning run! It's become one of my families Sunday morning staples.

Great spot for coffee or a breakfast sandwich. I even like their bagels which I can't say for most Boston bagel places. The rosemary salt bagel is especially good! I've also heard many good things about their breakfast sandwiches, particularly the Fix, but sadly it's always sold out when I go. Maybe one day I'll get to taste the elusive The Fix. I've also enjoyed the various coffee drinks I've had here, and they have lots of interesting options like the Maple Death Cream. It's a bit rich for me, but very tasty nonetheless. One thing to be aware of is that they tend to be pretty slow here. I recently ended up waiting about 20 minutes just for a bagel to be sliced in half which was a little frustrating, but it's clearly a popular spot and isn't a big space so I understand why it's a bit slow. Luckily they take online orders, so now whenever I go I order ahead so that I can wait at home instead of in the store. read more

Vanilla latte... that's it!!!! Best iced latte I've ever had!!!! Perfect amount of sweetness where I don't feel like I have a sugar high after!!! Highly recommend for the Boston sweet hearts! read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

All I had from here was a plain black hot coffee but it was SO good and I have had so many plain black hot coffees! Need to return soon!

Got the large matcha iced latte. Not bitter right amount of sweetness pretty solid. Small location not much seating more of a takeout place

Like most Pavement locations, the wait time on any food you order ranges from acceptable to ridiculous; it can be a hit or miss. If you don't have 15 minutes to wait for a bagel (or even sometimes a latte), then I wouldn't recommend this place. I've been to this location 30+ times (not because it's the best but because it's conveniently located). The staff all fit the hipster image Pavement, and they are all quite apathetic in nature, borderline rude. There are two really friendly baristas that I always secretly hope will be there. Overall: has a Tumblresque aesthetic, apathetic staff, slightly overpriced (although they do use Counterculture Coffee, so I'm willing to pay), and inconsistent read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

Amazing coffee place. Coffee was great and I was surprised they had vegan schemata for the bagels! I will be back to try some of the vegan sandwiches too. read more

Needed a quick pick-me-up while I was waiting at the plant shop down the street on a chilly day. Coffee was strong, which is great for those that needed an energy spike! Loved how cute the cups were. Definitely extra star for that! read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - a hand holding a cup of coffee - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts

I've bought a sunrise multiple times before from here & I must say, the last 2 or 3 times I wasn't so happy.. I always ask for my bacon to be made well done/crispy because I want minimum amount of fat, but of course the bacon is wack!! With Mad fat everywhere. Not a crunch at all!! From my understanding that's technically undercooked and you should always cook the food to the customers liking. So they dropped the ball on this 1.. next time just burn them for me!! I want my bacon to be cooked thoroughly. read more

Not sure why this has 3 stars, seems rough. Good coffee shop in the area. Fast service but would go with hot coffee or iced. Not specialty. They have food which seemed popular. They have seating too but small read more

One of my favorite places!! Pavement is consistently so good I keep going back again and again, I love the death cream cold brew and their breakfast sandwiches are the perfect hangover cure. The staff is so attentive, service is fast, and they play great music, all around great vibes! read more

Bagels are great, cold brew is actually un drinkable it's so gross. The oat milk they put in it was separated

Pavement's coffee is terrible. It's a medium roast that makes me grimace ever sip I take. It's horrifying just to think about it. Can't understand why they won't also keep some dark roast on hand, for, like, real coffee drinkers. That said, their breakfast sandwiches are very good. read more

A review for their delivery service: This is the second time they've messed up mine and my wife's order. Each time I've ordered two of their killer tofu sandwiches and each time I've been charged for both, but they only sent one. Pretty tiresome at this point. Currently awaiting a refund after reporting on Postmates once again. Hopefully we can get a refund for the missing sandwich since both sandwiches ended up being about $20. read more

I love this place! I known this place before it became Pavement Coffeehouse. Before it became fancy bagels were bigger, better and price lower. I like the old place better. read more

I had the best maple latte from here yesterday! It was so delicious and 10/10 would recommend. However since the prices are a bit high, it is not an everyday place, but definitely try the maple latte! read more

Pavement is always a good stop for a hangover bagel, I highly recommend the rosemary salt bagel or the tequila sunrise sandwich. Not a big fan of the coffee here especially for the price, I'd much rather go to Starbucks or Dunkin'. Often have issues with the bagels barely being toasted/warm when you ask for them to be, but it's a decent bagel for Boston. read more

The main problem with pavement isn't that it's bad, it's that it's insulting. It's the bait and switch the car salesman tries to do on you. It's being led on by that surly partner of yours, just so they can find something better in one of your best friends next week. Bagel rising was the darling on Allston. All weekend they would have a line of the colorful Allston residents out the door, buying 1,000 calorie "Tequilla sunrise" or "Chia" bagel-sandwiches to soak up the booze cruise they went on the night before. Pale skinned, occasionally pajama clad club-goers from the night before would come in droves. They would come like they had earned it. It was practically an unsaid thing, that when they would wake up in the morning, hungover, unshowered, disgusting, they would drag themselves to bagel rising, and tell the war stories of the night before. This is all gone now. The independent own daughter of Allston, our very own bagel sandwich store is now seems like some kind of corporate-feeling starbucks clone. I don't think this is the offensive part though, the offensive part is that this monstrosity is the same company. It's not that Bagel Rising went down in some sort of blaze of glory, greedy landlord raised the rent, lived many years past it's usefulness, or was closed by the heath department. There's no easy narrative to say "oh man that's why it closed! what a bummer". It's that the owner "upgraded" it to be this way, on purpose. The modern white "minimalist" store layout practically mocks you as you come in the door. It looks too neat and tidy to get comfortable in. The lighting is of that dishonest sort of school-cafeteria-too-bright-to-be-good-food sort. The bare-wood benches and tables are comfortable enough I suppose, but there is really no place to get cozy or sink in, or sit and talk to a few of your friends. It's a place where boring 30something loners go on their way to work to get a coffee now, and nothing more. What if also definitely isn't now is a place to get bagel sandwiches. The core business of the previous regime has gone the way of the dodo now. READ: THE THING YOU WANTED TO BUY THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE? THEY DON"T EVEN HAVE THAT ANYMORE. How considerate of them. They have a half-hearted list of four bagel sandwich options, all of which are super standard. Bagel with arugula and cheese. Bagel with bacon and cheese. That's about it. Know the reason they had a line out the door? That's completely dead. I got a Bagel Bacon Egg and cheddar sandwich. The bacon and the cheese were a vast improvement from Bagel Rising, but putting the same bagel and maybe a dollars worth of toppings into the EIGHT DOLLAR+ range just isn't forgivable. Way way too expensive. I can get dinner for that much. When i was there at SUNDAY 10:00AM, total ALL HANDS ON DECK time for a breakfast/coffee place, there was no epic line. The place was a ghost town. There were, at the highest point, four people waiting. The cashier rudely forgot to give me my drink, and proceeded to tell me i was wrong in asking for a bottle opener, since my bottled coke "has a screw off cap" (which it clearly doesn't) and couldn't even find the bottle opener. A nice lady in line lent me the one on her key-ring. The offensive part of this conversion of the BAGEL RISING to a PAVEMENT is the sort of arrogant corporate insistence that "hey you know that thing you like? we're going to change it into this new thing, and you are going to go to it instead because there isn't anything else!". That's the offensive part. If it weren't for the great memories of bagel rising, It would just be a forgettable coffee place I wouldn't ever go to again. But because of them, Pavement is a scar on allston's landscape. It's having Bunratty's become a date-rape bar for BU kids (way to go Wonderbar). It's the phantom pains in a parapalegic's severed arm stub. Thanks for the memories Bagel Rising. But if I wanted the horrible starbucks type of experience, i'd just go the the starbucks across the street. read more

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This place sucks! Their menu is pretentious and lame, and what is with the sterile atmosphere? I have lived in the Allston/Brighton area for 10 years now, and while I don't go down to Bagel Rising every weekend like I used to, it was one bagel place I could count on for awesome bagels and awesome sandwiches. Well, unfortunately, that is no longer. How could you take a business with a line out the door every weekend and ruin it? If it ain't broke, don't fix it!! Larry, you have made an egregious mistake!!! A Highland Park guy knows a good bagel, and should also know a good business decision!! read more

Pavement Coffeehouse - No thanks to your apricot jam. - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Allston, Massachusetts