Saxy’s Cafe

A yuppie heaven. If you’ve failed to find the late twenty-​somethings/​thirty-​somethings in this collegiate playground of a city, you’ll find them here.
The seating is great, the coffee is good, the servers are rude — usually. This is a great place to «get work done» (people watch), but by far not the best coffee shop in town to meet up with a friend.
Nicely situated a block off Pearl in one of the charming, typically-​Boulder brick storefronts.

A living social coupon brought us to this charming Boulder hangout. Not on the main drag but offering a nice neighborhood ambience serving delicious breakfast panini sandwiches and good chai.
will definitely return

This place is so cozy! I love the décor and the NICE couches. The salads and paninis are top notch. The coffee is good. I’ve spent plenty of hours on their couches studying. I’m not sure where the no internet access complaints are coming from.

This is quite the hangout. The single best looking woman in Boulder is known to show up there occasionally.
Food is marginal. But I’m still buzzing from the bhatki chai I had there 8 months ago.
Absolutely electric atmosphere. Crazy! Changed my life. No kidding.

They have all my favs: Bhakti Chai & rice milk, tasty gluten-​free treats, and a great selection of teas.
Plus they’re cheaper than several nearby local coffee places!

This has become my favorite café in Boulder. I love the atmosphere, the free WiFi and the food. My favorite is the salmon panini, though the salads are good too. I love the Chai and the coffee drinks as well. It’s relaxing and a good place to take your computer and chill for a bit.

If I’m not sticking closer to home in North Boulder then Saxy’s is one of my favourite places to go work. Atmosphere is good, the coffee is strong and the food is tasty. I like that you can get a real meal there as well.
See you there.

The food here is amazing, and I will continue to go back even though every time I’ve ever been there they’ve screwed up my order and then tried to make me feel like it’s my fault when what they hand me is not what I ordered right off the menu. I always take my food to go, and would not want to fight the laptop campers that seem to hang around this place for what is probably great atmosphere.

Saxy’s is one of the best cafés in Boulder. Sometimes it’s difficult to find a seat — especially if you’re in a group — but it’s a very casual, pleasant atmosphere with fantastic paninis, excellent chai (most places in Boulder that are worth your time have both Bhakti and Third Street Chai), solid Wifi and options for table seating or individual, bar-​like seating.
I agree with fellow reviewer and friend m.g. in that the zucchini chocolate bread is fantastic and that’s certainly one of my favorite picks, but I usually go with a panini if I’m going to eat there. The drinks come pretty big and are well-​made.

A great place to work on the laptop. Tough to find a seat as customers don’t leave. Coffee was good. Bagel was great.
Love the location because it is on a side street. Easy parking.

Saxy’s café is quite the place. Great vibe. Amazing spinach salads and panini’s. The coffee could be much improved, but I don’t drink coffee much. But they have great tea. I’ve spent many a morning there online — working away like the other entreprenuers. A very cool place!

I love the couches. Hate the Laptop Campers. Like the food options. Bathroom okay, its shared with other businesses. The coffee is Okay, I really haven’t found great organic coffee in Boulder. One big plus for Saxy’s is the lack of «asshole» eclectic coffee shop snobs. Its a nice laid back unpretentious place to get your fix and its clean.

I’m fairly certain that 99% of people aged 18 – 100 in Boulder do not hold full time jobs, and I would point to the round-​the-​clock business of Saxy’s as irrefutable evidence to support my hypothesis. Not that I’m judging, but how do people afford their lives in this place if they don’t work?!? And where do I sign up?
But I digress. I like Saxy’s other than the glaring lack of outlets for laptops. The communal seating area has the only bank of outlets in the whole place, and my Mac is old and needs a lot of juice to keep it going. Also, while the windows are nice on warm days, on cold ones they don’t have any way to keep the lovely Boulder wind at bay.
They have wine here, which is good. I get tea, and that’s more affordable that the espresso drinks. I’ve never gotten the food here, but I haven’t seen anyone terribly disappointed.

Looks like I’m going to be the lone voice of dissent. Sorry, Saxy’s. But I gave you two chances.
The first time I went I was there with a guy who was so annoying and full of himself that I almost wasn’t sure if the ‘award-​winning’ chai I was drinking really tasted watery and weird and lukewarm or my tastebuds were just warped from the onslaught of self-​promotion that I was listening to.
But the second time I went, I went with my boyfriend, who I clearly do not hate, and it was a beautiful sunny summer day to boot, so I was in an excellent mood… but the experience was just as bad. I figured, okay, maybe I am a chai snob, I’ll just grab an Izze and try out the food instead. We ordered two panini and two Izzes and snagged a coveted outdoor spot and waited for our food to show up.
Well, 25 minutes later, we were getting a little antsy, and a thought hit us at the same time. Hey, maybe we’re supposed to go in and pick up our own food! So he got up and went inside to check the counter, and, no. It was just taking 25 minutes to make 2 panini.
2 panini that, and I’m not just being bitter because they took so long, were both cold and nasty. I got the Panino al Salmon Fume, which had a couple of specks of what could possibly have been salmon, with two giant, floppy, soggy tomatoes covered in some white stuff. The filling tasted like it had been dropped on the floor. But the overwhelming flavor was… bread. The sandwich was 95% bread.
His panino was the vegetarian one, which would possibly have been fine had the goat cheese not tasted like it had been left out on the counter and the portobello mushrooms not been microscopic. Okay. How can you make a portobello mushroom small? The things are huge!
I couldn’t finish half of mine, and my boyfriend, who can be a human garbage disposal when hungry, had to eat them both. Somehow.
P. S. The bathrooms smell like sushi. From Sushi Tora next door. Just thought I’d throw that out there.

My favorite café in Boulder. I got there preeetty much every morning and the peoples who work there are awesome.
Try the Zucchini Chocolate bread. Gluten-​free, dairy-​free and awesome-​full; I know, it’s complex.

AHHH! I love this place. My friend works there but that’s not why I love it! Amazing food, coffee, couches, interior! It’s a straight up classy place to get some work done. Also good social waypoint if you frequently see friends downtown. Mmmmm, gelato. The employees are super friendly and amazing.

The chandeliers, big windows, unassuming ambience, background music, and the west side Pearl street location make Saxy’s oh so sexy.
Which just might explain why my vanilla latte was the best tasting… and best looking. vanilla latte I’d ever put to my lips.
Oh, and there’s Gelato. that’s hot, too.
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Looks a bit yuppified, starting with the glass doors; went in and there were college students studying on plush couches, with a swank-​looking bar straight down the middle. Only one register, so service was slow for a Saturday afternoon. Nonetheless, certainly a comfy place to chat, relax, read, and enjoy the coffee, which I can’t comment on since I didn’t order it.
I still don’t understand why a smoothie must cost $ 5 in Boulder …

When my goal for the day is to spend a few solid hours working on my laptop, Saxy’s is typically at the top of my list of locations. The large community table in the middle of this quaint coffee shop has quite a few outlets, which is absolutely key, since my computer’s battery has recently started to fade. Generally, people are friendly but equally as focused on their work, so no need to worry about distracting chatter — at least at the table.
However, if you do feel like meeting a friend there to catch up, the comfy overstuffed couches make it an ideal location. But be forewarned that Saxy’s is almost always crowded, so you may need to have a backup meeting spot in mind if there are two or more in your party.
The food (salads, paninis, pastries, and gelato) and drinks (not only do they have coffee, but beer and wine too) are delicious — though slightly overpriced, in my opinion. Typically, I order a vanilla latte. It’s definitely one of the best in town — and the latte art always makes me smile. Also, they carry Two Leaves and a Bud tea, which is made in Aspen. Not only is it delicious, but the little sachets are beautiful!
Also — and this is rare for me – I almost always enjoy the music they have playing. Today it was the new Radiohead album, and last week it was Gillian Welch’s album Time, the Revelator.
So the next time you’re looking for a great, cozy place to spend a few hours drinking coffee, check out Saxy’s!

Saxy’s Café is one of the few coffee shops left in Boulder which I haven’t frequented, so I thought it high-​time to check it out.
The location is pretty prime: a block off of Pearl Street makes this a nice stop when walking around. When we entered the coffee shop, its pretty hard not to notice immediately the décor: faux 16^th century Versailles chandeliers and nice-​ish furniture and couches.
The place is popular: it was at about 95% capacity. However, I didn’t even make it to the counter before one of the barista dudes noticed my Smashing Pumpkins shirt and engaged me in conversation about the show at Red Rocks and their new cd. This distracted me from the menu, which was pricey: $ 4 drinks, $ 8 sandwiches, and $ 9 salads (although to their credit all were massive). The place also had gelato, which I’ve never tried, so I queued up chocolate hazelnut and cookies and cream.
So we finally got my iced coffee and her iced chai, my gelato and sat at one of the cool couches.
Also free wi-​fi
…too bad the the chai was exceptionally weak. That’s — 1 (best chai ever??! must have been an off day)…and the prices are minus –1…but the people behind the counter were nice,
so 3.5?