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Category: Coffee & Tea [Edit]
Neighborhood: MissionMon-Fri. 6:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Sat-Sun. 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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This clean, comfy coffee shop always makes me think that is should belong in SoMa. But I am so happy that it is not. If it were in SoMa, it wouldn't be as unique, as it is in the Mission. Out of place, in the Mission, it's a great place to flop down with a laptop and get some work done.
I love that a cup of coffee (which is pretty good) buys you the right to sit here all day. There are power outlets everywhere, which gives you unlimited time at your computer. The free wifi helps. They also don't care if you bring some food in from somewhere else. It's the perfect place to camp out.
Dark, ambient music, hardwood floors and wooden tables and good coffee make this just a nice hang out spot, to sit, do work, and watch the Mission walk by. The Vietnamese iced coffee ($3) is a winner. Coffee "lounge" is the perfect name.
Cash only.
3.5 neighboring on 4.
Good decor, free wifi, comfy couches and very available seating.
Decent coffee and food (just a tiny bit pricey for what it is; frozen empanadas, small raw salads, sandwiches), the music plays a bit loud for my taste if I want to get shit done.
Overall, good spot to chill.
OH HELL YA! tried the lounge today... i would say it was a very interesting experience i've had for a while on a cafe.. lol well the only worker that day, she was ditzy, that she dropped my bagel, but i like how she responded on it. she replaced it with 2 more bagel, and she insisted to give me a cupcake, but i didn't mind to have a cupcake! :)
overall, the lounge was very hip and quaint. decor is alright, kinda dark, but it's very interesting. i should bring my laptop here next time, and show the mac freaks that PC's can stay alive among the cool crop... =)
They've worked out some of their kinks. I like it a lot more now.
I was so excited to have a new cafe in the neighborhood. I'm not knocking what's already here, but I… Read more »
Coffee here is good, like the fact that the seating is varied...couches, chairs, barstools... Not a bad experience at all, but for some reason think I was expecting a bit more.
Really nice, relaxed coffee shop. Sophisticated decore with mixture of vintage furniture, but with a clean feel. Free wifi, and POWER PLUGS. Not too noisy and great for working. Standard issue coffee bar with no complains except that they could maybe offer a better food selection for lunch. Still, that's not a problem because you can just go across the street or to any number of other places on 24th street.
+ cool decor
+ not a chain
+ good coffee
+ good nonfat mocha
+ free wi fi
I don't give a flip if there are hipsters or macs or another non-chain coffee shop across the street. Everyone's 'tudes were fine, the place looks cool inside and we liked our drinks. Done.
Even a dirty bathroom cannot get in the way of good coffee and chill place to drink good coffee while people watching.
If this place had brighter walls, I would be more into it. The coffee is good though.
Sugarlump has great ambiance. Its cozy and stylish. the coffee is acceptable thought the pastries/fruit selection is a little weak. Whatever. You go here to sit and chill, not for the gastronomic experience.
Even though I occasionally go to other cafes, I always find myself going back to Sugarlump. The vintage furniture, the mellow atmosphere, the good music, and the yummy lattes make this my absolute favorite place to study. In fact, I hesitated to write a good review because I don't want too many other people taking up all the good seats!
Even the guy behind the counter has an apple laptop to match the hipsters on the other side.....man this place reeks Mac -_-
This place is pretty conducive to getting work done....tons of electrical outlets, free wifi, and all kinds of seating options...not the brightest though if you need light......
*The chalk ink-written menu includes....[clover coffee!]....and usual prices
savory treats:
-organic vegan tamales with seasonal fillings
-empanadas
-bagels and various spreads
sweet treats and organic coffee drinks including iced horchataccino ($2.75)
cold drinks including vietnamese coffee ($3), fresh lemonade ($3.25), izze sodas, boylan's ginger ale, blue sky soda (root beer, ginseng cola)..
organic granola menu is enticing..
- raspberry almond
- tahitian vanilla with walnut, almonds, coconut
- raspberry musuli
- organic rice dream with original enriched rice milk
- organic soy dream vanilla fortified milk
- rice dream horchata
and more...
Instant love. Excellent atmosphere, nice selection of music, tasty cupcakes and comfortable sofas with free wifi. They're open 'til 10pm and offers stable, fast, unlimited and FREE wifi - it's a perfect place to work. On a Thursday night you'll easily find a space to sit down and work. In the top three neo-nomad office alternatives on my list currently.
Excellent place for studying.
Free wifi and plenty of outlets. Comfortable chairs and couches. Yeah, it totally has that musty, used-pillow smell mentioned in other reviews, but that's how you know you're *in a San Francisco* coffee shop.
Didn't actually try the coffee, but the green tea was good.
The only thing I didn't like was the cold and fairly noticeable draft that really made it feel like a freezer and eventually chased me out to a warmer location. Bring a sweater if you are planning on staying here a while.
Overall though, I'll definitely frequent Sugarlump as a study spot.
It's a beautiful Saturday and I have to work. Boo. Didn't feel like sitting around the house all day, so came to Sugarlump on a recommendation from someone. Good coffee, and they serve vegan tamales (since I'm a vegan, any cafe that specifically has *something* vegan gets extra points). Comfy chairs and couches, good and free Wifi, and plenty of power outlets.
One big complaint- do they really need to BLARE the music so loud? I've got the white noise app on my iPhone turned up as loud as it goes in an attempt to drown out the annoying tunes they've got going on here. Minus one star for that.
Sugarlump's a cool spot. It just needs some TLC.
Good place to work with good coffee, fast wi-fi, open 'til 10pm, never crowded, plenty of tables, and nice baristas with good taste in music. That's a lot of things working for it.
Now if they only addressed the little things, this place would be like Haus in my book.
What I'd address:
1. Your bathroom reeks and isn't cleaned every night. And if it is cleaned every night, they do a half-assed job. Point blank. The bathroom is an epic FAIL.
2. If a table lamp's bulb goes out, replace it. Easy enough, right? Not at sugarlump. Same lamp has been out for a week. There's no excuse for that.
3 The "fix-your-drink" area is a trainwreck. The sugar is out in a bowl, and along with the cream, soy, and other stuff, it's right next to the trash can. No wonder there are often little fruit flies that have suffered a tragic death getting trapped and then buried alive in the sugar.
4. It's 2009, take some cards for cryin' out loud. This cash only b.s. blows.
That's about it. No other egregious mistakes being made by this otherwise fine establishment. Fix these few things up and you'll be 5 stars in my book.
So, wait a second....
you little hip dude behind the counter,
you're making me an espresso,
did you really remove half of the previous ground coffee cake and replace only the top half with new freshly ground beans?
You are officially done with me...
What are you thinking???
Also, this place has a terrible scent of "well used pillow" now...
UPDATE: Danger danger ! Coffee quality is going down! I'm so disappointed. Drip coffee is now bland… Read more »
I like this place! It's so hard to find decent coffeehouses in SF, while it's much easier to find great coffee. Sugarlump is a solid coffeehouse. The coffee...not so much. Still, it's cozy, relaxed, and has everything you need. Various seating arrangements (couches, comfy chairs, hard chairs, tables, a coffee bar, etc.). Various drink choices, including an excellent iced tea. A hipper-than-thou mission crowd to make you feel bohemian. A (fake) stove pipe heater in the middle of the floor. Accommodating hours (10pm, which as good you can hope for in SF). And, because it's buried on 24th street, it's never over-crowded and you never have to struggle for a seat.
Sugarlump. Strange name, odd location, but generally great!
Some days I want it to rain, I want to have messy hair, I want to be grumpy or at least shoot a few disapproving glances at folks who probably don't deserve it. On those days I really miss Seattle and I really wish there were better coffee shops in SF.
Sugarlump comes as close to a Seattle coffee shop as I've found. And hallelujah it's open until 10:00PM. Sure, it's not the post-midnight I've been craving but since most places close before 8:00 I'll take what I can get.
I can't speak to the coffee since I was over caffeinated by the time I got here but the soy hot chocolate was richer than most and only $2! That is ridiculously cheap and makes me think they actually found their MCM furniture as opposed to buying the new trendy stuff. Huzzah. Uh oh, I better settle back down into a misanthropic coffee shop patron lest they kick me out for ruining the very atmosphere I came here to enjoy.
I've been going to Sugarlump for years now, and despite the bevy of new coffee shops that have opened in the Mission during that time, I keep going back.
The sweet little thing who makes my coffee in the morning, Mary I believe, is a big reason for my return visits. She's funny, always remembers my order and listens to some badass music. Seriously. Where else can you listen to Sabbath, 60s Soul and Sonic Youth on consecutive days at 9 in the morning? Also, she makes the meanest cappuccino in the mission.
Other than her, the lump is always pretty chill, there's free wi fi and good people watching. They keep on adding more food items too, which is cool (though I'm kinda terrified of the vegan tamales with weird fillings).
There are certainly some drawbacks, though. Namely the coffee, which is a pretty serious drawback for any coffee shop. It isn't bad, but it isnt the best. They might want to think about going with a different line, I'd say.
But yeah. Great service. Good vibe. OK coffee. I'd say 3 1/2 stars, but because I like listening to Sabbath in the AM i'll give it 4.
"Whoever moves from carelessness to vigilance,
Lights up the world
Like the moon that emerges from a cloud." - The Dhammapada
Danni, you are indefectible. In a grey world of automaton baristas, you blaze like The Burning Bush. I admire your vitality and divinity, Moses-style. You make my coffee taste like liquid sunshine.
From the outside, I did not expect this place to look like it did. Very large and almost swank on the inside, one of the nicer interiors I have ever seen for a coffee shop.
Hell of a place to grab something, anything, and just hang out and relax. We just nestled into the far corner with a couple of computers and sat down to do an entire fantasy baseball draft.
For whatever reason, their bathroom reminds me of some 'kill room' that Showtime's very own Dexter would set up on the show. Worry not though, I relieved myself without incident and all was well.
If I was to open a cafe...it would be something like this.
24th Street is an upcoming place where Latino culture meld with hipsters. Sugar Lump is definitely a hipster cafe. Do not go there for taste, it is nothing different from other ordinary cafe in the Mission. But I love the atmosphere---low light and quiet. The Internet connection is great, too.
The downside is... you have to walk about 10 minutes from 25th bart station. However, it is a nice place to study.
Sugarlump = Coffee house x Art Gallery x Apple store x Public library
Coffehouse with cool artwork, everyone's on an apple something, and it's as quiet as a library with just the sound of typing.
For not being an actual Apple store, I've never seen a such a collection of macbooks and iphones under one roof`before.
Lot's of people grinding away so grabbing a comfy choice seat may be difficult.
A really strange place. I got a root beer and talked to my friend TJ (who had coffee) about a movie project we were doing. It made me vaguely self-conscious, as if that were the sort of place we were supposed to be loudly conversing about the quantity of buttsex in a script or making biodiesel out of human fat. There was no music on and everyone else was extremely quiet and furiously ignoring what we were saying by tapping on their Macs or iPhones. It was uncomfortable and surreal.
My root beer was $2.50. That was whack.
Sorry, friends.
The promise is there - cool, ritual-like decor, dim lights, couches, faux fireplace, macbooks galore absorbing the free wireless.
And, yet ... mediocre coffee, everyday muffin. That'd still be ok, but for the service. If you had good energy, good vibe staff, all caffeinated and psyched to prepare you a coffee concoction, then all else would be forgiven.
But the service was bad - bad vibe, someone who hated their job.
There it is. I'll be heading a couple blocks away to Haus when it opens.
It's was almost like a university library, folks quietly working away on their MacBooks. I enjoyed a simple green tea and chocolate chip cookie, the atmosphere is retro 70's-ish, but reasonably comfortable. There is a warm looking gas stove in the middle of the room, but it was still a little chilly (we Bay Area types can't handle the cold).
The guy behind the counter was super nice and gave me refills on my tea water. If I lived in the 'hood I could see chilling here on occasion, real rating is somewhere between 3 and 3.5.
I love the Sugarcubes, skiing at Sugarbush in Vermont, really like the Tori Amos song "sugar" and had the best bbq ever outside of Austin at the Sugar Shack. In short, I love all things sugar. It came as no surprise that I fell in love with Sugarlump the moment I walked in. The mid-century furnishes are very nice and adds a very sophisticated touch to the atmosphere. The service was nice and served with a smile. I'm sure to go back again and again.
There are people that work for themselves - not in offices, not in cubicles - but out in the world. They have the very unique challenge of finding a makeshift office - a place where they can sit for hours at a time, get a bite to eat, and enjoy as many cups of coffee or tea as they can hold. They have one need that outweighs all of the rest: outlets. How do I know all of this? Because I walk among them, my friends. Yes, I, too, am a DayWorker.
As wireless internet cafes go, Sugarlump fits what I need to a tee. It's not too loud or too quiet, has plenty of places to plug in, and has retro-cool furniture to remind you that while you may not be at home, you COULD be. It's neither too hipster nor too geekster, and you don't have to fight the crowds to go there. If you don't feel like having one of their snacks, it's right down the street from St. Francis Fountain.
I like it, yet I am not so attached to it that I call it mine, so I don't feel the need to be possessive and keep it all to myself. I guess it's like a great FWB, we are there when we need each other, and no worse for the wear when we don't.
There are plenty of people who will give Sugarlump four or five stars, so I'm fine tempering the enthusiasm down a bit with three. It's a plenty enough nice place, but it's a bit too much like a set--like Dwell Magazine Cafe. There are great seating areas making use of great mid-century modern furniture. But it's so pristine-- it seems more a showroom or gallery than a cozy cafe. It's also a little too silent, not counting the "chill-out mix" music playing. It's great if you're there to work on a laptop, solo, but I'd think twice about having a chat with a friend or two if I didn't want our conversation heard be everyone.
Perhaps the most uncomfortable thing about the place, though, is that it seems to singularly represent the kind of gentrification that is not really developing the 24th Street corridor in a way makes sense in its context. With its severely controlled atmosphere, there is a lack of unique expression or color (dare I say, even among the clientele) in an otherwise culturally rich neighborhood. Not to say that there isn't room for this place on the street, but I hope that it stays the exception rather than part of a trend.
I'll be back, but I don't think it will ever feel like my home.
yes, the bathroom is grotty.
yes, the fruit flies seem to love the sugar station.
But that doesn't make me love this spot any less. The space is big, it has a variety of table setups, cozy huge couches in back and lots of wall outlets to match the free WI-FI. The decor is your affluent grandparents leftovers, making it swanky retro comfortable.
I have had nothing but great service, frankly this is why I keep coming back. Seems like whenever the counter staff greets me, they actually mean it. Plus I like how they generally say 'goodbye and thank you' when you leave. The chai is a bit steep in price for the size and quality, but I'll pay my $2.75 gladly to be able to sit in a friendly place.
It is generally pretty quiet in here daytimes except for the music; everyone is doing their finger judo exercises on the keyboard.
Brought a friend here recently and he liked it so much that he didn't leave when he was gonna, just too good. He even drank the last dregs of his coffee cold, "it was that good", he said.
I want to live here. I want ALL their furniture. I want ALL their art work. I want it all.
The interior design is AMAZING. Clean. Homey. Industrial. Everything I've ever wanted in my home.
Great drinks, nice staff. Awesome cafe.
I like this place lots. I even drove over a few days ago simply for a coffee, some nice atmosphere and a few hours to write. It worked.
The staff is nice. The coffee is good. The hipsters keep to themselves. The seating is cozy and not crowded. The lights work. I listen to my own tunes, but the tunes I hear in between trips to the john sound alright.
Sugarlump is alright. They've got plenty of seats [some nifty looking ones in the back] and outlets. There's wireless internet [the main reason I go to ANY coffee shop]. It's in the Mission and just a block away from St. Francis Fountain. They serve Vietnamese coffee, and the baristas are all hipstered out.
What else?
I don't dislike it, but unless others [some of my friends like this place] want to meet up here, I'll likely not return. I've experienced better, but can't bring myself to give the place two stars. Sometimes you just click. And other times, no matter how hard you try, you can't figure out why you just don't mesh well. This is one of those places.
Or maybe it's the swarm of fruit flies right outside the door... I'm not sure.
I like a cafe with a great atmosphere, where I can go chill with my laptop or a magazine and feel cozy and comfy. Sugarlump absolutely kills on decor and atmosphere. It's just the slickest looking interior I've seen in any cafe anywhere. Ritual and Four Barrel are a close second. The thing that makes Sugarlump stand above them is that:
1) They have outlets for my laptop (so I can stay and get some work done or go on a blog-reading marathon if I want to).
2) They generally have better music that isn't turned up so obnoxiously loud (although I must say I wanted to shoot myself in the head while the barista played the uber-obnoxious Electralane last night).
3) They don't have the ridiculous line and standing crowd, so you can actually find a decent seat most of the time, and have a little space to yourself.
When it comes to their coffee, I have to say it is quite decent. Although I often come in with iced coffee from Phil'z, and then buy something cheap or just give the barista a decent tip (and buy nothing). If only Phil'z had the tiniest clue about branding and atmosphere, ugh.
Apparently L's Caffe (across the street) has a better average rating. I haven't been in there but that just blows my mind. The place looks like a totally bland un-hip dump. Maybe their coffee is just insanely good, but I can't see how it could be good enough to make up for being so uncool.
One extra-cool thing is that Sugarlump has vegan tamales. I haven't tried them yet, but I'm assuming they're decent. Now if only they would start carrying more vegan items, like Zoe's banana-walnut chocolate chip cookies. Mmmm...nom nom nom.
Other suggestions for Sugarlump:
* Please carry almond milk -- it's way better than soy milk.
* Let me pay for a "library pass" that lets me just hang out there with my laptop and not have to buy anything, so I can bring in my Phil'z coffee that you could never possibly hope to match.
Having just moved to the neighborhood, I needed a nearby place with free wifi to hang out for a week until I got internet installed at my new digs. Sugarlump was my savior. There was always a spot at a table for me and my laptop, and plenty of outlets as others have mentioned. I visited three times last week. House coffee was consistently yummy. Pleasantly chill ambiance, due in part to the great music they played (Tom Waits, Sonic Youth). It's the perfect place to go if you want to study, read, or get some work done. Now that I have internet at home, I can ditch the laptop and take advantage of the comfy armchairs and couches.
Dear Sugarlump Coffee Lounge,
I've been coming to visit you for years now. However, I'm sorry to say that today I had a terrible experience, and I hope you're able to rebound, or else I'll have to forsake you for one of your competitors.
I showed up three hours after opening, and the pastries were still not out! Not only that, but the hipster barista behind the counter moved as self-consciously slow as possible, all the while completely oblivious of the increasingly irate mood of the customers. It took over 20 minutes for me to get a bagel and coffee.
Hipster barista, I wasn't admiring your studied quirkiness, and I didn't think it was cute the way you couldn't remember the price of a cup of coffee. You made me late for work.
Sugarlumps, I like your dark ambiance and workspaces, and sometimes you have really good coffee, but if your services continues to be crap, we'll be breaking up.
this is where laptop sundays normally take place.
what makes this place a winner is the free wifi + plenty of table space + nearby food. parking isn't the best around this area, but if you ding a place for parking all of sf deserves that ding.
service is friendly, there's ample outlets, and they have three legged chairs. not all of them are three legged, but a few are.
the coffee was decent. small or large, $2.25 buys a large drip.
I lived nearby and used to come here occasionally, but then my company was remodeling the floor I was working on and I got to "work from home" for several weeks. I spent nearly every day at sugarlump and became quite pleased. during most of the day, it's plenty quiet to get some serious work done. The coffee is decent, I like the thoughtfulness of the decor. The internet is rock solid, free and most of the chairs are comfortable enough to work in all day. What's keeping this from five stars is there lack of anything approaching serious food. there are, however, many great food options out on 24th street. Besides a few bagel, cookie or scone like things they don't really offer much. They've occasionally had more flies than I'd care for too.
however, compared to many other coffee shops for people who do serious telecommuting, sugarlump is a gem.
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